The Cape Town Convention Academic Project
The Cape Town Convention Academic Project is a joint undertaking between the University of Washington School of Law and the University of Oxford Faculty of Law.
Its purpose is to facilitate the academic study and assessment of the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment
together with its Protocols, for the benefit of scholars, practising lawyers, courts and governments.
The Cape Town Convention is one of the most important and innovative international conventions ever to have been concluded
in the field of transactional commercial law and has already secured nearly 50 ratifications.
The project seeks to enhance the understanding and effective implementation of the treaty and advance its aims.
Information about the Cape Town Convention can be found on the websites of UNIDROIT,
the legal depositary of the treaty, and the Aviation Working Group, the founding sponsor of the project.
The main activities of the project are: the creation of a comprehensive digitized and searchable database of primary and secondary
materials on the Convention and Protocols, the preparatory work leading to their adoption, and their implementation in national law, a journal,
conferences, teaching materials, and law and economics assessment. The database and journal are being undertaken under the joint auspices of UNIDROIT.
The Aviation Working Group is the founding sponsor of the project. The International Civil Aviation Organization and the Intergovernmental Organisation for
International Carriage by Rail are also cooperating with the project.
The project seeks to draw out and assess general principles and themes seen in the broader context of transnational commercial law,
such as the relationship between commercial law reform and economic benefit, the relationship between international and national law,
the interplay between private law and public law, the use of a system of opt-in and opt-out declarations to provide flexibility in the application of
provisions so as to respect national sensitivities, and the role of electronic commerce, including the use of electronic registries.
Collaborating Parties
University of Oxford Faculty of Law
www.law.ox.ac.uk
UNIDROIT
Database/Library Resources and Cape Town Convention Journal
www.unidroit.org
Aviation Working Group
Founding Sponsor
www.awg.aero
The International Civil Aviation Organization
www.icao.int
Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail
www.otif.org
Project Overview
Contact Us
Cape Town Convention
Academic Project
University of Washington School of Law
William H. Gates Hall, Room 443
Box 353020
4293 Memorial Way
Seattle, WA 98195-3020
Jeffrey Wool, Executive Director
+44 7841 000 447
Kyle Brown, Project Manager
(206) 221-9190
Jonathan A Eddy, Academic Lead
University of Washington School of Law
(206) 616-5825
Sir Roy Goode, Academic Lead
University of Oxford Faculty of Law