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25 Int'l L. News 1 (1996)

handle is hein.journals/inrnlwnw25 and id is 1 raw text is: INTERNATIONAL LAW ,)NEWS Section of International Law and Practice 1996 Issues Agenda Announce by Michael Sandier, Section Chair Our Section's largest untapped resource is the array of projects our 50-plus commit- tees and task forces are pursuing. This issue of the international Law News con- tains the agenda of tile substantive legal issues each committee is following. I hope the publication of this list will lead more of our 15,000 members to become engaged in some of these committee activities. Each issue listed may result in one of sev- eral possible projects: legislation, a publi- cation, an update to committee members, model uniform rules, a proposed treaty, comments on pending regulations, a CLE program. Some projects may be well advanced. Many have not yet been launched, and are awaiting volunteers to form a subcommittee to take the lead. I have listed the names and telephone numbers of each committee chair and vice-chair, with the hope y appropriate committee lead more about any topic in wl interested - and perhaps' take part. To join the committee itsel join up to three different c please contact our staff c/o: Coordinator, ABA Section Law and Practice, 740 15t Washington, DC 20005; (2 fax: (202) 662-1669; email jgodfrey@attmail.coin. If you have not yet renewe Section membership, you c VISA, Mastercard or AMEX (800) 285-2221 (press #1 hear the recording). The Issues Agenda begins Developments In Private International Law: Regional Approaches to Harmonization Draft 1994 Inter-American Convention on the Law App To International Contracts - Plans for CIDIP VI - Ott by Don Wallace, Jr. and Harold Burman In our prior column, we invited readers to write or call us with comments. Several of you have done so and in some cases we have referred you to possible activities in which you can become involved, within the Section and the ABA, and elsewhere. encourage you to contact us. In that column we referred the pragmatic Anglo-Amer based more on business pr more doctrinaire continent American Bar Association, Vol. 25 No. 1 Winter 1996 dINSIDE Call for Nominations ................ 12 ou will call the Section Newsmakers ............... 13 ler to learn hich you are Casenotes: Italian Arbitration; volunteer to Swiss Secrecy Laws; U.S. - Mexico TIEA; Clinese Coersive Population Practices; and more ................... 17 f (and you may ILEX Trip to Brussels )m m ittees), & Luxembourg .................................. 22 Committee A Slow Boat to of International h Street, N.W, Chile 02) 662-1671; The Prospects for Chilean Accession to the NAFTA d your an do so by by John R. Magnus and , by calling David S. da Silva Cornell when you Although there is substantial agreement in both Congress and s on page 3. the administration that tile logi- cal next step for the United States in expanding free trade should be to extend the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to include Chile, it appears unlikely that this step will actually be taken any time licable before the 1996 elections. The her cause: a political and ideological dispute over the terms on which We again Congress should extend fast- track procedures governing its consideration of new agree- to the fact that ments negotiated by the presi- ican approach, dent. Without fast-track, Chile's actice, than the NAFTA accession most likely .at approach, cannot proceed. continued an page 10 continued on page 2

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