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The Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law has been established to advance the study and practice of international business transactions and the way to solve related disputes either through litigation or arbitration.

As commercial transactions become increasingly international, it is vital to the legal and business communities to understand and analyze the practices and legal principles that govern relationships between firms and between firms and consumers in the international arena.  Subjects such as the appropriate degree of harmonization of domestic laws, sovereign and private lending to developing nations, choice of law in commercial transactions, the proper scope of international arbitration and litigation, and the role of private groups in promulgating principles that have international application will inevitably increase in importance in the immediate future, and both attorneys and their clients who are involved in projects that transcend national boundaries must have an increased understanding and appreciation of the implications of these areas.

What's New

2025 Hague Conference of Private International & PCA summer internship
The Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law is pleased to announce that both the Hague Conference on Private International Law and the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) will each again be offering a summer internship for students who have or can obtain NYU PILC grants.

Professor Franco Ferrari publishes a paper in French on the importance of the seat of arbitration
Professor Franco Ferrari, the Director of NYU School of Law's Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law, has just published a paper in French on the importance of the law of the seat in the peer-reviewed Revue de droit international et de droit comparé (L'importance du siège de l'arbitrage, Revue de droit international et de droit comparé (2024) 225-251).

NYU's Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law hosts a talk on the CISG's interpretation and application by Italian Supreme Court Justice Francesco Cortesi
The Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law is glad to announce that on October 7, 2024, Honorable Justice Cortesi will give a talk titled “The Interpretation and Application  of the CISG: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”. 

The EU in the Gulf region, a seminar with Luigi Di Maio, EU Special representative for the Gulf region - an event of the NYU School of Law's Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law
The Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law is glad to be able to invite you to a seminar titled "The EU in the Gulf Region" with the participation of Mr. Luigi Di Maio, the EU Special Representative for the Gulf Region.

NYU School of Law's Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law hosts seminar on "Restituting Nazi-Confiscated Art: A Restatement"
NYU School of Law’s Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law is glad to be able to announce that on September 16, 2024, it will host a seminar titled “Restituting Nazi-Confiscated Art: A Restatement”.

The Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law hosts an arbitration conference in Italy
This is to announce that the Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law and, thanks to Professor Francesca Ragno (from Bologna University's Department of Political Science), Bologna University will host an in-person event focusing on the 2023 reform of the Italian arbitration regime.

Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law hosts arbitration conference in Buenos Aires
NYU School of Law's Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law is glad to announce that, together with SciencesPo Law School and Universidad Austral Buenos Aires, it will host a conference on the myth and reality of party autonomy in international commercial arbitration.

The Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law hosts the 4th Cross-Examination Moot
The Center is glad to announce that, together with SciencesPo Law School, Queen Mary University of London, and National University of Singapore Law, it will host once again the Cross-Examination Moot.

Professor Franco Ferrari to speak at the Dubrovnik Conference on Cross-Border Dispute Resolution
Professor Franco Ferrari, the Executive Director of the NYU School of Law's Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law will participate in the DubrovnikConference on Cross-Border Dispute Resolutionm, co-hosted by the Law Schools of the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Verona, and the University of Zagreb.

Professors Franco Ferrari, Friedrich Rosenfeld, and Juan Ignacio Stampalija publish a book on the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of the Foreign Arbitral Awards
The Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law is glad to be able to announce that its Director, Professor Franco Ferrari, has just published the Spanish version of the book titled "Recognition and Execution of Foreign Arbitral Awards: A Concise Guide to the New York Convention's Uniform Regime," which Professor Ferrari co-authored with Professor Friedrich Rosenfeld, and which Professor Charles T. Kotuby edited.