Professor Christine Windbichler, of Humboldt University Law School in Berlin, chats with faculty at UF Law last week. Windbichler is teaching a segment of a foreign enrichment class at UF Law, Doing Business in Europe: Selected Issues. (Photo by Haley Stracher)

Interested in exposure to international law concepts before engaging in the legal practice? Can you think outside the box of national law?

As globalization continues apace, lawyers are more likely to encounter an element of international or foreign law in their daily practices.

Doing Business in Europe: Selected Issues is a foreign enrichment class with 28 UF Law students enrolled this spring and coordinated by Professor Claire M. Germain, associate dean for Legal Information & Clarence J. TeSelle Professor of Law

Four distinguished international professors each lead a two- or three-week segment of the course and include: Luca Castellani, head of the Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific (RCAP) of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Incheon, Republic of Korea; Professor Christine Windbichler of Humboldt University Law School, Berlin; Professor Emeritus Xavier Blanc-Jouvan of the University of Paris I Sorbonne Law School and former director of the Comparative Law Institute, Paris; and Eric Noual, attorney specializing in insurance law, Paris.

The class comparatively analyzes key concepts of international commercial law. It especially focuses on the common law/civil law convergence and distinctions, the process of Europeanization of contract and business law and with U.S. law comparisons.

“I’m especially impressed by the students’ lively interest in things international,” Windbichler said.

Additional sponsors include the University of Florida Levin College of Law, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), University of Florida Center for European Studies and the Institute for International Commercial Law (Pace University).

The conference, which takes place Nov. 11-12, will be held at the Hilton-UF Conference Center on Southwest 34th Street. The conference will bring together 35 or so scholars, practitioners, and representatives of international organizations from 20 or so countries to present papers in their areas of expertise.

Claire M. Germain, UF Law associate dean for legal information and Clarence J. TeSelle Professor of Law, will present “Issues of Translation” at the conference. This conference will provide information on multiple levels — understanding the rules of the CISG, the application of the CISG by signatory countries, theoretical insights, and its use by international transactional attorneys.

It will also include a presentation by Luca Castellani, legal officer in the Secretariat of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, on the substance and status of complimentary conventions. Total available CLE credits: 14.5 CLE credits. For more information, visit the webpage. To register, click here.

Additional sponsors include the University of Florida Levin College of Law, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), University of Florida Center for European Studies and the Institute for International Commercial Law (Pace University).

The conference, which takes place Nov. 11-12, will be held at the Hilton-UF Conference Center on Southwest 34th Street. The conference will bring together 35 or so scholars, practitioners, and representatives of international organizations from 20 or so countries to present papers in their areas of expertise.

Claire M. Germain, UF Law associate dean for legal information and Clarence J. TeSelle Professor of Law, will present “Issues of Translation” at the conference. This conference will provide information on multiple levels — understanding the rules of the CISG, the application of the CISG by signatory countries, theoretical insights, and its use by international transactional attorneys.

It will also include a presentation by Luca Castellani, legal officer in the Secretariat of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, on the substance and status of complimentary conventions.

Total available CLE credits: 14.5 CLE credits. For more information, visit the webpage. To register, click here.

Claire M. Germain, associate dean for legal information & Clarence J. TeSelle Professor of Law, thanks the search committee members for their work in steering the process, and those who participated in the interviews and provided feedback.

“We, in the LIC, intend to do our best to integrate fully into the mission and programs of the Law School, with a focus on fostering faculty scholarship and preparing students to be proficient researchers. Elizabeth will play a key role in this effort,” Germain said.

Additional sponsors include the University of Florida Levin College of Law, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), University of Florida Center for European Studies and the Institute for International Commercial Law (Pace University).

The conference, which takes place Nov. 11-12, will be held at the Hilton-UF Conference Center on Southwest 34th Street.

The conference will bring together 35 or so scholars, practitioners, and representatives of international organizations from 20 or so countries to present papers in their areas of specialized expertise.

Claire M. Germain, UF Law associate dean for legal information and Clarence J. TeSelle Professor of Law, will present “Issues of Translation” at the conference.

This conference will provide information on multiple levels — understanding the rules of the CISG, the application of the CISG by signatory countries, theoretical insights, and its use by international transactional attorneys. It will also include a presentation by Luca Castellani, legal officer in the Secretariat of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, on the substance and status of complimentary conventions.

Total available CLE credits: 14.5 CLE credits.

For more information, visit the webpage. To register, click here.