Newsletter -February 2011
Thirty-third Seminar on Private International and Comparative Law
The Department of International
Law participated in the
Thirty-third Seminar on Private International and
Comparative Law, which was held in Colima,
Mexico, on October 12-15, 2010. This event, which
was attended by the most well-known academics and
private law practioners in Mexico and the Americas,
provided an opportunity for presenting a preliminary
draft of a study compiled by the DIL on privacy and
data protection, as well as to share the
Departments progress regarding the Network of
Hemispheric Legal Cooperation in the Area of Family
and Child Law, the Model Registry Regulations under
the Model Inter-American Law on Secured Transactions
approved by the OAS member states at the Seventh
Inter-American Conference on Private International
Law (CIDIP-VII), and the progress made in
negotiating the Draft Instruments on Applicable Law,
Jurisdiction and Consumer Protection. The seminar,
which in addition to generating ample debate
concerning the history, process, and future of the
Inter-American Conferences of Private International
Law (CIDIP) as the advisory body par excellence for
the development and codification of private
international law in the Americas, issued a series
of specific recommendations for the CIDIP process,
both regarding the implementation of conventions and
other instruments adopted by the member states, such
as the negotiation of the draft convention and draft
model laws in the area of consumer protection
currently being debated at the OAS.
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