[The UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency is reproduced from the Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, on the work of its thirtieth session, May 12-30 1997, General Assembly, Official Records, Fifty-second Session, Supplement No. 17 (A/52/17), Annex I. The Introductory Note was prepared for International Legal Materials by Harold Burman and Jay Lawrence Westbrook. Harold Burman is the Executive Director of the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Private International Law. Jay Westbrook holds the Benno C. Schmidt Chair of Business Law at the University of Texas School of Law, and is the Reporter for the American Law Institute's current project on insolvency law as between the three Nafta states. Mr. Burman and Mr. Westbrook were co-heads of the United States delegation to Uncitral on cross-border insolvency. The U.S. delegation also included John Barrett of Houston, Texas, Don Bernstein of New York, Judges Burton Lifland and Tina Brozman of the Southern District, 2d Circuit, and Professor Carl Felsenfeld of Fordham.

[The European Convention on Insolvency Proceedings, of November 23, 1995, appears at 35 I.L.M. 1223 (1996). The Council of Europe's European Convention on Certain International Aspects of Bankruptcy, done at Istanbul, June 5, 1990, appears at 30 I.L.M. 165 (1991).

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