Unidroit President to speak about facilitating international trade
Date & Time: November 19, 2014 | 09:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Location: Lewis Katz Building Room 112
Alberto Mazzoni, the President of Unidroit and professor of commercial law at the Catholic University of Milan will speak on Unidroit principles and international contracts, on November 19 at Penn State Law, University Park, and simulcast to Dickinson Law 116 Lewis Katz Hall in Carlisle.
Alberto Mazzoni received university education in Pisa, where he was an alumnus of the prestigious Collegio Giuridico (at that time a department of Scuola Normale Superiore). He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pisa Law School in 1965 and received a MCL degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1966.
Unidroit is an independent intergovernmental organization, counting 63 member states, whose goal is the development of a uniform body of law to facilitate international trade. It is one of the most important organizations to set international standards for contracts, building on lots of different legal traditions. Its principles are technically not binding, but they are often included by parties in international contracts, used by legislatures around the world as a model for their statutes, and often taken into account by judges and arbitrators as authority to determine or interpret ambiguous international law rules.