PETER WINSHIP

ACTIVITIES -- SPRING 1999

PUBLICATIONS & RESEARCH

Manuscripts

Secured Transactions [This is a chapter in a book on the law of the United States prepared for the National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade in Tucson. The chapter will be published in Spanish translation for a Mexican audience.]

International Commercial Transactions: 1998 ([This is my annual contribution to the Uniform Commercial Code survey issue of the Business Lawyer, a publication of the American Bar Association Section of Business Law. I have published survey articles for 1995-1997.]

Changing Contract Practices in the Light of the U.N. Sales Convention and the UNIDROIT Principles [This paper is an up-dated text of a generic paper I have prepared on the Sales Convention and the UNIDROIT Principles. It was prepared for presentation during a course sponsored by Insight Information on January 28, 1999, in New York City.]

Eritrean Civil Code, Title XV ("Contracts Relating to Assignment of Rights") of Book V ("Special Contracts") [This work is part of my ongoing work on the Eritrean Civil Code.]

Research

My principal short-term work is drafting parts of the Eritrean Civil Code.

Professor John A. Spanogle (National Law Center, George Washington University) and I are under contract with West to prepare a casebook on the U.N. Sales Convention. The manuscript is due at the publishers in May 1999.

Professors Louis Del Duca (Dickinson), Egon Guttman (American), Bill Henning (Missouri), Fred Miller (Oklahoma) and I have a contract from Anderson Publishing Company to publish course materials for Secured Transactions (U.C.C. Art. 9). The manuscript is tentatively due October 1, 1999.

I have committed to preparing a history of the Uniform Commercial Code. I spent several days during the spring semester working in the Archives of the University of Pennsylvania where the American Law Institute papers are stored.

LECTURES

[U.S.] Commercial and Consumer Law [I lectured for nine hours on June 10-11, 1999, to the participants in the Academy of American and International Law, an annual program sponsored by the International and Comparative Law Center of the Southwestern Legal Foundation in Dallas.]

Constructing an Appropriate Commercial Law Foundation [This lecture was delivered on June 5, 1999, as part of a conference on "Challenges of the New International Financial Architecture: Lessons from East Asia" at the University of Hong Kong. The conference launched the Asian Institute of International Financial Law.]

Draft UNCITRAL Receivables Financing Convention [This presentation was part of a panel on "International Secured Transactions," at the 32nd annual Uniform Commercial Code Institute on April 23, 1999, in Chicago.]

Constructing a Commercial Law Infrastructure [This was a presentation at the 6th Annual Conference of the International Law Review Association of SMU on "Law-Based Nature of the New International Financial Infrastructure" held March 27, 1999 in Dallas.]

Proposed UNCITRAL Convention on Assignment in Receivables Financing [This was a panel presentation at the Roundtable Symposium on "Cross-Border Secured Financing" sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law on March 19, 1999 in Philadelphia.]

Changing Contract Practices in The Light of The U.N. Sales Convention and the Unidroit Principles [This was a presentation at a course sponsored by Insight Information on January 28, 1999, in New York City.]

Supranational Commercial Law in Francophonic Africa: The Organisation pour l'harmonisation du droit des affaires (OHADA) [This was a panel presentation to the Section on Africa at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, January 9, 1999, in New Orleans.]

MEETINGS

June 4-5, 1999: Conference on "Challenges of the New International Financial Architecture: Lessons from East Asia" at the University of Hong Kong. [I delivered a paper at this conference. The conference launched the Asian Institute of International Financial Law and was part of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong.]

May 31-June 3, 1999: Annual meeting of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, Vienna [I was a member of the U.S. delegation to the annual meeting. I advised on proposed international commercial arbitration projects. As one of the two U.S. National Correspondents, I also attended a meeting of the national correspondents of the UNCITRAL CLOUT (Case Law on UNCITRAL Texts) network.]

May 18-19, 1999: Annual meeting of the American Law Institute, San Francisco [I attended as a member of the Institute.]

May 10-11, 1999: Meeting of Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Private International Law, Washington, DC [I attended as a representative of the American Branch of the International Law Association. At the meeting I reported on the UNCITRAL Arbitration Proposals.]

May 7, 1999: Meeting of study group on the Hague Judgments project, Washington, DC [I attended as a member of the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Private International Law.]

April 17-22, 1999: meeting of experts, U.N. Commission on International Trade Law, Vienna [I attended as an expert invited by the Secretariat of the U.N. Commission.]

April 23, 1999: Uniform Commercial Code Institute, Chicago [I attended as a panelist.]

March 27, 1999: "Law-Based Nature of the New International Financial Infrastructure," 6th Annual Conference of the International Law Review Association of SMU, Dallas [I attended as a speaker.]

March 26, 1999: American Branch of the International Law Association executive committee meeting, Washington, DC [I attended as a member of the executive committee and nominating committee.]

March 25-26, 1999: American Society of International Law annual meeting, Washington, DC [I attended as a member.]

March 19, 1999: University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia

March 12-14, 1999: U.C.C. Article 2 drafting committee meeting, Bethesda, MD [I attended as an official observer.]

March 1-11, 1999: Meeting of UNCITRAL Working Group on Contract Practices, New York, NY [I attended as a member of the U.S. delegation to the UNCITRAL Working Group.]

February 27-28, 1999: Preliminary Informal Meeting of Delegates to the UNCITRAL Working Group on Contract Practices, New York, N.Y. [I attended as a member of the U.S. delegation to the UNCITRAL Working Group.]

February 26, 1999: International Trusts, Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville

February 4-7, 1999: U.C.C. Article 2 drafting committee meeting, Los Angeles [I attended as an official observer.]

January 28, 1999: course on "International Business Transactions: Problems and Applied Solutions" sponsored by Insight Information, New York, N.Y. [I delivered a paper and stayed for one-day of this two-day course.]

January 23-24, 1999: meeting of Council and Administrative Committee of the A.B.A. Section of International Law and Practice, Washington DC [I participated as a member of the Council.]

January 22-23, 1999: meeting of the planning committee for an Association of American Law Schools Workshop on international business transactions, Washington, DC [I participated as a member of the planning committee.]

January 19, 21, 26, and 28, 1999: I participated in conference calls of the U.S. delegation to the UNCITRAL Working Group on International Contract Practices [I participated as a member of the delegation.]

January 16, 1999: meeting of the Uniform Commercial Code committee of the Texas State Bar, Dallas [I participated as a member of the UCC committee and as a member of the sub-committee on UCC Art. 9 (Secured Transactions). As a result of the sub-committee report, the UCC committee has recommended that Texas adopt the newly-revised Article 9.]

January 7-10, 1999: annual meeting of Association of American Law Schools, New Orleans [At the meeting I represented S.M.U. at the AALS House of Delegates and was a panelist on the program sponsored by the Section on Africa. I stepped down as chair of the Section on Africa but continue on the nominating and executive committees of the Section.]

S.M.U.

Faculty Senate: As a member elected by the Law School, I attended meetings of the Senate.

Faculty Senate, All University Finance Committee: As chair of the committee, I reported to the Faculty Senate on the University's 1998-1999 budget and its draft 1999-2000 budget.

Tower Center, Executive Committee: As a member of the executive committee, I attended a meeting of the committee and a meeting of the board, as well as several functions sponsored by the Center.

Town & Gown: As a member of the executive committee, I attended its two meetings this spring semester. At its April meeting, I was elected as president-elect for the academic year 2000-2001.

Colophon (Friends of S.M.U. Libraries): As a member of the board of directors, I attended several meetings of Colophon. I chaired the Scholarship Committee, which made its first annual scholarship award to a library staff member enrolled in library school.

Collegium: I attended two meetings of the Collegium for chaired professors.

Ethics colloquy: I participted in several meetings of the Ethics colloquy organized by Charles Curran for the School of Theology.

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