Trustees

Professor em., University Rome I ("La Sapienza"), Director, "Center for Comparative and Foreign Law Studies", Rome; former Legal Advisor to the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), Rome; former representative of Italy to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).

Professor em., University of California, Boalt Hall, Berkeley, USA; former Editor-in-Chief, "American Journal of Comparative Law"

Professor of Law, Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M., Chair in Medieval and Early Modern Legal History, specialized in the history of commercial law, including the disputed theory of a medieval lex mercatoria

Attorney at law, Zurich, Switzerland; Professor for Private Law, Private International Law, Civil Procedure and Comparative Law, University of Zurich, Switzerland; author of a groundbraking study on the application of transnational law in international commercial arbitration.

Attorney at law, Paris, France; former General Secretary of the Court of International Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), author of numerous publications on international commercial arbitration.

Clarence D. Ashley Professor of Law, Director, Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration and Commercial Law, New York University School of Law; former member of the Italian delegation to various sessions of UNCITRAL.

Adjunct professor of law and senior research scholar in the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law at Columbia Law School, Columbia University, USA; Honorary Professor at the National University of Buenos Aires School of Law (UBA).

Professor of law, McGill University School of Law, Montreal, Canada. Director, Institute for Comparative Law Former General Counsel, International Court of Arbitration, ICC. Member of the Quebec Bar and advisor in conflict resolution and legal reforms.

Norton Rose Professor (em.) of English Law, University of Oxford, Fellow St. John's College, Oxford; Crowther Professor of Credit and Commercial Law, Director, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, England (until 1990); Queen's Counsel; member of the Board of Directors, International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), Rome.

Professor em., Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium; independent arbitrator; former President, Iran-US Claims Tribunal, The Hague, Netherlands

Attorney at law, independent arbitrator, Paris, France; former Counsel, Court of International Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Paris, France; Co-editor of various collections of ICC arbitral awards.

Professor of law, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; author of a major work on transnational commercial law.

Professor Giuditta Cordero Moss

Professor at the Department for Private Law, University of Oslo, Norway (in charge of International Commercial Law, Comparative Private Law and Private International Law), and Principal Research Fellow and Honorary Lecturer at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, University of Dundee, Scotland (in charge of Regulation of International Commerce).

Professor Frédéric Sourgens

James McCulloch Chair in Energy Law, Director, Tulane Energy Law Center, Tulane University School of Law, USA; Chair of the Southwest Institute for International and Comparative Law, member of the Executive Committee of the Institute for Energy Law.

Professor of Commercial Law at Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain; former Spanish representative to UNCITRAL; observer in the Working Group for the third and fourth edition of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts.