Private International Law Conventions to Which the United States Is a Party
- International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law Relating to Bills of Lading for the Carriage of Goods by Sea (Hague Rules) (1924)
- United Nations Convention on the Limitation Period in the International Sale of Goods (1974), as amended by the Protocol of 1980
- United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (1980)
- UNIDROIT Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape Town Convention) (2001)
- UNIDROIT/ICAO Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment (2001)
- Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Certain Rights in Respect of Securities Held with an Intermediary (2006)
Private International Law Conventions for Which U.S. Ratification/Accession Is Under Consideration
- United Nations Convention on Independent Guarantees and Stand-by Letters of Credit (1995)
- United Nations Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade (2001)
- United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts (2005)
- United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea (Rotterdam Rules) (2008)
Other Private International Law Conventions
- Protocol to Amend the International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to Bills of Lading for the Carriage of Goods by Sea (Hague-Visby Rules) (1968)
- United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea (Hamburg Rules) (1978)
- UNIDROIT Convention on International Financial Leasing (1988)
- UNIDROIT Convention on International Factoring (1988)
- United Nations Convention on International Bills of Exchange and International Promissory Notes (1988)
- United Nations Convention on the Liability of Operators of Transport Terminals in International Trade (1991)
- UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects (1995)
- Luxembourg Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Matters Specific to Railway Rolling Stock (2007)
- UNIDROIT Convention on Substantive Rules for Intermediated Securities (2009)
- Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Space Assets (2012)
Other Private International Law Instruments
- UNCITRAL Model Law on International Credit Transfers (1992)
- UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (1994)
- UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce with Guide to Enactment (1996)
- Uniform Electronic Transactions Act
- UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency (1997) with Guide to Enactment and Interpretation (2013), enacted by the United States as Chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code
- UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Signatures with Guide to Enactment (2001)
- OAS Model Inter-American Law on Secured Transactions (2002)
- UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Insolvency
- UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions (2007)
- UNIDROIT Guide to International Master Franchise Arrangements (2007)
- UNIDROIT Model Law on Leasing (2008)
- UNCITRAL Practice Guide on Cross-Border Insolvency Cooperation (2009)
- OAS Model Registry Regulations (2009)
- UNCITRAL Model Law on Public Procurement (2011)
- UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency: the Judicial Perspective (2011)
- Guide to Enactment of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Public Procurement (2011)
- UNIDROIT — Consideration of draft principles regarding the enforceability of close-out netting provisions
- UNCITRAL Guide on the Implementation of a Security Rights Registry (2013)
- UNIDROIT Legal Guide on Contract Farming (2015)
- Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts (2015)
- UNCITRAL Model Law on Secured Transactions (2016)
- UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (2017)
- UNIDROIT Legislative Guide on Intermediated Securities (2017)
Work in Progress
- UNCITRAL Working Group I – Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
- UNCITRAL Working Group IV — work on instruments relating to cloud computing and to identity management
- UNCITRAL Working Group V — development of (1) a model law on recognition and enforcement of insolvency-related judgments and (2) model legislation provisions on enterprise group insolvency
- UNCITRAL Working Group VI — Development of a practice guide to the UNCITRAL Model Law on Secured Transactions
- UNIDROIT — Development of a fourth Protocol to the Cape Town Convention on financing of mobile agricultural, construction and mining equipment
- UNIDROIT — Work on agricultural land investment contracts