The Cape Town Convention Academic Project

The Cape Town Convention Academic Project is a joint undertaking between the University of Washington School of Law and the University of Oxford Faculty of Law. Its purpose is to facilitate the academic study and assessment of the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment (the Cape Town Convention), together with its Protocols, for the benefit of scholars, practising lawyers, courts and governments. The Cape Town Convention is one of the most important and innovative international conventions ever to have been concluded in the field of transactional commercial law and has already secured nearly 50 ratifications. The project seeks to enhance the understanding and effective implementation of the treaty and advance its aims.

Information about the Cape Town Convention can be found on the websites of UNIDROIT, the legal depository of the treaty, and the Aviation Working Group, the founding sponsor of the project.

The main activities of the project are: the creation of a comprehensive digitized and searchable database of primary and secondary materials on the Convention and Protocols, the preparatory work leading to their adoption, and their implementation in national law, a journal, conferences, teaching materials, and law and economics assessment. The database and journal are being undertaken under the joint auspices of UNIDROIT. The Aviation Working Group is the founding sponsor of the project. The International Civil Aviation Organization and the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail are also cooperating with the project.

The project seeks to draw out and assess general principles and themes seen in the broader context of transnational commercial law, such as the relationship between commercial law reform and economic benefit, the relationship between international and national law, the interplay between private law and public law and the use of a system of opt-in and opt-out declarations to provide flexibility in the application of provisions so as to respect national sensitivities, and the role of electronic commerce, including the use of electronic registries.

The project started in July 2011 and will run for three years. Professor Louise Gullifer will be the Oxford University Academic Lead working with Professor Sir Roy Goode.

Events held or planned as part of the project

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September 2012

Wednesday 5 September 2012 until Thursday 6 September 2012

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Cape Town Convention Academic Project - 1st Conference

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Cape Town Convention Academic Project – Annual Conference

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Publications relating to this project

Roy Goode, Official Commentary on the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and Protocol thereto on Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment,, Revised Edition (International Institute for the Unification of Private Law 2008) [...]

A comprehensive analysis of the 2001 Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment (the Cape Town Convention) and associated Aircraft Protocol. Written and published pursunt to a resolution of a Diplomatic Conference in Cape Town in November/December 2001. Revised and expanded in 2008

ISBN: 88-86449-18-6

Roy Goode, Official Commentary on the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and Protocol thereto on Matters Specific to Railway Rolling Stock (International Institute for the Unification of Private Law 2008) [...]

A comprehensive analysis of the 2001 Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment (the Cape Town Convention) and the 2007 Luxembourg Protocol on railway rolling stock. Written and published pursuant to a resolution of a Diplomatic Conference held in Luxembourg in February 2007

ISBN: 88-86449-17-8

Roy Goode, 'The Cape Town Convention on international interests in Mobile Equipment: A Driving Force for International Asset-Based Financing' (2002) VII 2002-1 UNIDROIT, Uniform Law Review 3 [...]

Examines the significance of the Cape Town Convention on international interests in mobile equipment in providing a secure international legal regime for interests in aircraft objects, railway rolling stock and space assets, thereby reducing legal risk and borrowing costs and facilitating asset-based financing in developing countries

ISBN: 1124-3694