Reminder: 17th Annual Transnational Commercial Law Teachers Meeting

The details are here and below.

Following on the prior conferences in, among other locations, Tubingen, Manchester, Oxford, Heidelberg, Kyushu, Madrid, Perth, Santiago, Rome, and Greensboro, the 17th Transnational Commercial Law Teachers Meeting that will be held on 8-9 October 2026 at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, on the theme, “Transnational Commercial Law in Times of Change: The Challenges of Technology and Fragmentation and Opportunities for Reform”.

There will be a conference dinner on the evening of 8 October 2027. To plan for the conference, we would appreciate it if you could inform soon whether you may be attending. with the theme: “Transnational Commercial Law in Times of Change: The Challenges of Technology and Fragmentation and Opportunities for Reform.”

As with the prior meetings anyone interested in transnational commercial law is invited to participate. Information about the conference and past conferences can be found at the conference website.

For those who would like to present their work, we welcome papers on any topic that may be of interest to teachers, scholars, and practitioners of transnational commercial law, broadly understood. We particularly welcome papers that will address the theme of this year’s conference:

As is the tradition of the meeting, students are particularly welcome to participate and to present papers, such as, e.g., projects for or summaries of their Master or PhD theses.

Some of the papers will be published in the Uniform Law Review. Presenters will also have the opportunity to publish papers in the Journal of Law and Commerce, Pitt Law’s flagship publication on commercial law.

Pittsburgh is one of America’s most distinctive and charming cities. It is a place of dramatic geography, exceptional cultural institutions, and a lively academic community. Set at the confluence of three rivers, the city is beautiful with autumn color in October. The city offers outstanding dining and world-class museums such as the Carnegie and Warhol and Frick Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh International Airport offers nonstop transatlantic service to London, Frankfurt, Paris, Dublin, and Reykjavik and is a short connection from many North American cities. Hotel costs run well below other larger cities. Several excellent hotels are adjacent to the Pitt campus, within a few blockswalk on our campus to the law school.