The Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law is glad to announce that on October 7, 2024, Honorable Justice Cortesi will give a talk titled “The Interpretation and Application of the CISG: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”. The in-person event, to take place at NYU School of Law, Furman Hall 900, 245 Sullivan Street, will focus on whether the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, CISG, is interpreted and applied as intended by its drafters. Justice Cortesi will point to the difference in methodology applied by the courts of different Contracting States to the CISG and show what is wrong with certain interpretive trends that can be identified in the courts of certain Contracting States. He will also address the reasons behind these trends.
The talk by Justice Cortesi will be followed by a Q&A session, which will be moderated by Professor Franco Ferrari, the Center’s Executive Director and an expert on international sales law.
Honorable Justice Francesco Cortesi graduated cum laude from Bologna University School of Law in 1994; he then specialized in international commercial law at Tilburg University School of Law (Netherlands).
In 1999, Justice Cortesi was appointed to the District Court of Bologna. In 2001, he was appointed to the District Court of Rimini, where he mainly dealt with disputes regarding contractual matters, consumer law issues, and professional malpractice torts. In 2007, he moved to District Court of Forlì, where he was able to focus on those very same areas of law. During his tenure there, he rendered some of the most relevant decisions concerning the CISG, many of which have been translated into various languages, including English, and are taught at law schools around the globe.
In 2006, Justice Cortesi was appointed to the Government Committee for the revision of the Italian Civil Code. In January 2015, he was appointed to the Italian Supreme Court, becoming one of the two youngest justices ever appointed to the Italian Supreme Court. In 2018, he was appointed to the Research Department of the Italian Constitutional Court. Over the years, Justice Cortesi has been lecturing at the Bologna University School of Law mainly on commercial and consumer law matters and course on the “Methodology of law”. He is also a two-time scholar-in-residence at the NYU Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law. He is also a prolific author focusing mainly on private law and constitutional law matters.
Participation in the event is free of charge, but you will need to register. To do so, please use this link: https://forms.gle/PiYNXi3iv3Qbi1N27