Elon Law professor Henry Gabriel remained actively engaged in globally-coordinated efforts to improve international commercial law in recent months, through a series of presentations, meetings and collaborative work with law scholars, government agencies and advisory groups involved in shaping the future of law related to international business and commerce. Highlights of Gabriel's recent activities are included in this article.
Recent activities of Elon Law professor Henry Gabriel:
- Gave two presentations in Washington D.C. at the recent meeting of the Advisory Committee on Private International Law at the United States Department of State, where he spoke on the role of federalism in the ratification by the United States of the united National Convention on Electronic Commerce and about current and proposed initiates by the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law;
- Chaired a panel discussion at the Second Annual Conference on Teaching Transnational Law at the University of Heidelberg in Heidelberg, Germany;
- As the chair of the editorial committee for the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Law, met with members of the UNIDROIT Secretariat to complete the comments for the third edition of the Principles;
- Served as a member of the United States delegation at a meeting in Rome to discuss the possible drafting of a convention on third party liability for global navigation satellite systems.
In addition, Gabriel has been elected a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, which is based in the United Kingdom.
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