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Current NCCUSL Int'l Projects 1

handle is hein.nccusl/nccpub01064 and id is 1 raw text is: NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF COMMISSIONERS ON UNIFORM STATE LAWS Current NCCUSL Projects Related to International and Transnational Law Drafting Committees NCCUSL drafting committees consist of a chair, several NCCUSL commissioners from various states, and a reporter (usually a law professor with expertise in the subject matter). Every NCCUSL drafting committee is also assigned an ABA advisor, who represents the ABA as a whole, and frequently one or more ABA section advisors, who represent particular ABA entities. Other interested groups are also invited to send representatives, known as 'observers. NCCUSL drafting meetings are open to the public, everyone at a drafting meeting is encouraged to participate fully in the discussion, and all of our drafts are available on the internet (www.nccusl.org). NCCUSL drafting committees typically meet three times a year (two substantive drafting committee meetings and a presentation of the draft for line-by-line reading and debate at the NCCUSL Annual Meeting) over a period of at least two years. Draftin2 Committee on Amendments to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act Battle Robinson, Chair, 104 W. Market St., Georgetown, DE 19947 John J. Sampson, Reporter, University of Texas School of Law, 727 East Dean Keeton Street, Austin, TX 78705 The Standby Committee on Amendments to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act has been reconstituted as an active drafting committee in order to monitor developments at the Hague Conference on International Private Law with respect to a draft convention in the international recovery of child support and other forms of family maintenance, due for final consideration in November, 2007. This committee will examine, at the request of the U.S. Department of State, whether becoming a party to the convention is in the best interest of the United States and, if warranted, will draft amendments to UIFSA and possibly federal implementing language. Representatives from the Uniform Law Commission of Canada and the Mexican Center for Uniform Law are participating in the work of this committee. Joint Drafting Committee for Implementation of the UN Convention on Independent Guarantees and Stand-by Letters of Credit. Edwin Smith, U.S. Chair, 150 Federal St., Boston, MA 02110-1726 Kathryn Sabo, Canadian Chair, 284 Wellington Street, 284 Rue Wellington, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1AOH8 Elias Mansur, Mexican Chair, Socrates 207, Polanco 11560, Mexico City, Mexico 11560 James J. White, NCCUSL Reporter, University of Michigan Law School, 625 South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109- 1215 This committee will work with the American Law Institute, the Uniform Law Conference of Canada and the Mexican Center for Uniform Laws to draft language to implement the UN Convention on Independent Guarantees and Stand-by Letters of Credit, and to assist Canada and Mexico in developing letter-of-credit law consistent with UCC Article 5. The Convention is designed to facilitate the use of independent guaranties and stand-by letters of credit, in particular where only one or the other of these instruments may be traditionally in use. Draftin2 Committee on a Certification of Unsworn Foreign Declarations Act Karen Roberts Washington, Chair, 2929 Carlisle, Suite 1550, Houston, TX 77056 Joseph Colquitt, Reporter, University of Alabama School of Law, Box 870382, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-5829 Guy Stanford Lipe, ABA Advisor, International Law Section This committee will draft an act that would permit, in state court proceedings, unswom declarations under penalty of perjury to be executed by witnesses located outside the United States in lieu of affidavits, verifications, or other sworn court filings. Obtaining an affidavit abroad can be a costly and time-consuming process. A uniform state law on this subject would be extremely useful in transnational litigation.

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