Commercial Law Office Home Developments General Resources Wills, Trusts, and Estates Family Law Dispute Settlement Judicial Assistance Commercial Law Advisory Committee on Private International Law HomeOffice of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law...Commercial Law hide Commercial Law Office of the Legal Adviser Private International Law Conventions to Which the United States Is a Party International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law Relating to Bills of Lading for the Carriage of Goods by Sea (Hague Rules) (1924) United Nations Convention on the Limitation Period in the International Sale of Goods (1974), as amended by the Protocol of 1980 United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (1980) UNIDROIT Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape Town Convention) (2001) UNIDROIT/ICAO Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment (2001) Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Certain Rights in Respect of Securities Held with an Intermediary (2006) Private International Law Conventions for Which U.S. Ratification/Accession Is Under Consideration United Nations Convention on Independent Guarantees and Stand-by Letters of Credit (1995) United Nations Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade (2001) United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts (2005) United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea (Rotterdam Rules) (2008) Other Private International Law Conventions Protocol to Amend the International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to Bills of Lading for the Carriage of Goods by Sea (Hague-Visby Rules) (1968) United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea (Hamburg Rules) (1978) UNIDROIT Convention on International Financial Leasing (1988) UNIDROIT Convention on International Factoring (1988) United Nations Convention on International Bills of Exchange and International Promissory Notes (1988) United Nations Convention on the Liability of Operators of Transport Terminals in International Trade (1991) UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects (1995) Luxembourg Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Matters Specific to Railway Rolling Stock (2007) UNIDROIT Convention on Substantive Rules for Intermediated Securities (2009) Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Space Assets (2012) Other Private International Law Instruments UNCITRAL Model Law on International Credit Transfers (1992) UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (1994) UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce with Guide to Enactment (1996) Uniform Electronic Transactions Act UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency (1997) with Guide to Enactment and Interpretation (2013) , enacted by the United States as Chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Signatures with Guide to Enactment (2001) OAS Model Inter-American Law on Secured Transactions (2002) UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Insolvency UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions (2007) UNIDROIT Guide to International Master Franchise Arrangements (2007) UNIDROIT Model Law on Leasing (2008) UNCITRAL Practice Guide on Cross-Border Insolvency Cooperation (2009) OAS Model Registry Regulations (2009) UNCITRAL Model Law on Public Procurement (2011) UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency: the Judicial Perspective (2011) Guide to Enactment of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Public Procurement (2011) UNIDROIT — Consideration of draft principles regarding the enforceability of close-out netting provisions UNCITRAL Guide on the Implementation of a Security Rights Registry (2013) UNIDROIT Legal Guide on Contract Farming (2015) Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts (2015) UNCITRAL Model Law on Secured Transactions (2016) UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (2017) UNIDROIT Legislative Guide on Intermediated Securities (2017) Work in Progress UNCITRAL Working Group I – Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises UNCITRAL Working Group IV — work on instruments relating to cloud computing and to identity management UNCITRAL Working Group V — development of (1) a model law on recognition and enforcement of insolvency-related judgments and (2) model legislation provisions on enterprise group insolvency UNCITRAL Working Group VI — Development of a practice guide to the UNCITRAL Model Law on Secured Transactions UNIDROIT — Development of a fourth Protocol to the Cape Town Convention on financing of mobile agricultural, construction and mining equipment UNIDROIT — Work on agricultural land investment contracts Tags Law Legal Adviser Private International Law