Instititutional Repository of the University of PittsburghProfessor Harry Flechtner made the most of a recent trip to Italy and Austria. On Saturday, March 24, he taught a class on “Uniform International Commercial Law in U.S. Courts” for the International Commercial Law course taught by Professor Marco Torsello at the University of Bologna (Italy). The students in the course are LL.M. candidates from the U.S., Canada, Italy, Germany and a variety of other European countries studying at the Faculty of Law in Bologna. While in Italy, Professor Flechtner also engaged in extended consultations with Professor Franco Ferrari of the University of Verona their joint and separate projects on Uniform International Commercial Law.
On Sunday, April 1 at the Juridicum (Law Faculty Building) of the University of Vienna Professors Flechtner and Ronald Brand participated in an organizational meeting for an initiative to develop standardized materials for teaching uniform international commercial law to judges, attorneys and law students around the world. The project is sponsored by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), and is being organized by Professor Chiara Orlandi of the University of Bologna and Ms. Monica Canafoglia of UNCITRAL.
Professor Flechtner also has recently completed, as an “outside expert” under contract with UNCITRAL, a complete revision of the UNCITRAL Digest of International Case Law on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (”CISG”). The current Digest is available at http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/case_law/digests/cisg.html. The revision now awaits approval at the UNCITRAL National Correspondents’ meeting this summer, and translation into the other five official U.N. languages.
