Elgar Companion to UNCITRAL

Edited by Rishi Gulati, Associate Professor in International Law, University of East Anglia, UK and Barrister, Victorian Bar, Australia, Thomas John, MCIArb, Independent Mediator, Arbitrator and Legal Consultant, the Netherlands and Ben Köhler, University of Bayreuth, Germany

‘I commend the editors for this timely and thought-provoking companion, which serves as a useful reference point for all stakeholders in the harmonization project.’

• Contents: UNCITRAL legal texts xviiiForeword xxivIntroduction to The Elgar Companion to UNCITRAL 1Rishi Gulati (with Ben Köhler and Thomas John)PART I INSTITUTIONAL BACKGROUND, SOME CONCEPTUAL MATTERS, AND REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES1 UNCITRAL: the organization 11José Angelo Estrella Faria2 UNCITRAL conventions and private international law: from antagonism to symbiosis 36Franco Ferrari3 Harmonising the local and global: non-unitary States and UNCITRAL’s work of legal convergence 53Justin Gleeson SC and Danielle Forrester4 Progressive harmonisation of international trade law in Africa: the role of UNCITRAL 81’Gbenga Bamodu5 Judicial support of international commercial arbitration under the Model Law: a précis of available options for judges 99Anselmo Reyes6 Latin America’s perspective on the reform of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanism 116Christian Carbajal ValenzuelaPART II INTERNATIONAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION7 UNCITRAL’s work in investor-state dispute settlement: promoting the rule of law internationally? 140Rishi Gulati and Patricia Schoeffmann8 The Mauritius Convention and UNCITRAL Rules on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration 161Jeremy Shelley9 The Hague Rules on Business and Human Rights: reconciling business and human rights with arbitration? 177Dalia Palombo10 Sovereign immunity and international arbitration: whither the rule of law? 193Conway Blake11 The history, evolution, and future of the UNCITRAL mediation framework 216Judith Knieper and Jonathan Haddad12 The Singapore Convention 242Nadja Alexander and Clarissa Chern13 Making the impossible possible: UNCITRAL’s impact on the harmonisation and modernisation of India’s legal framework for dispute resolution 267Nidhi Gupta14 Online dispute resolution 277Ronald A. BrandPART III INTERNATIONAL CONTRACT LAW15 The 1980 Vienna Sales Convention (CISG) as standard setter for or obstacle to international commercial law unification 296Ulrich G. Schroeter16 The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods as reference to interpret or supplement Guatemalan law 328Pedro Mendoza Montano17 The CISG in the age of sustainable supply chains 339Ben Köhler18 Thinking, small and large: can the CISG help SMEs and if so, how? 356Lisa SpagnoloPART IV SELECTED TOPICS19 UNCITRAL and MSMEs: an enduring and successful marriage 377Petra Butler20 ESG as a business model for small and medium-sized enterprises 392Mark Fenwick, Tronel Joubert, Sanita van Wyk and Erik P.M. Vermeulen21 Insolvency standards, model laws, and cooperation in cross-border insolvency: the role and impact of UNCITRAL’s instruments 410Irit Mevorach22 Cross-border insolvency under the UNCITRAL Model Laws and the European Insolvency Regulation 428Jodie Adams Kirshner and Yannick Chatard23 Security interests in intellectual property under the UNCITRAL Model Law on Secured Transactions 442Spyridon V. Bazinas24 Negotiable instruments law: two layers of harmful discrepancy 462Sagi Peari25 The UNCITRAL Model Law on Public Procurement: potential next steps 480Christopher Yukins and Caroline Nicholas26 The role of the UNCITRAL Model Law in reforming procurement mechanisms: a case study of India 497Mukesh Rawat and K. Damodaran Raju27 UNCITRAL texts on electronic commerce 512Luca G. Castellani28 Blockchain-based bills of lading and the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records: questions of compatibility 525Poomintr Sooksripaisarnkit29 UNCITRAL and international carriage of goods by sea 541Vivienne BathIndex 562