CAPE TOWN CONVENTION ACADEMIC PROJECT

The purpose of the Cape Town Convention Academic Project is to facilitate and further the academic study and assessment of the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment (the Cape Town Convention), together with its Protocols, for the benefit of scholars, students, practising lawyers, judges, governments officials and others working in the relevant industries, including by the provision of information on, and education about, the Convention and its Protocols... The Cape Town Convention is one of the most important and innovative international conventions ever to have been concluded in the field of transnational commercial law and already has 80 Contracting States, making it one of the most successful commercial law treaties. The Convention and its Protocols provide a detailed legal framework for the secured financing and leasing of uniquely identifiable high-value mobile equipment, and they address many aspects of commercial and financial law, including property rights,..