The relevance of technological optimism to environmental quality and other natural resources will become plain as we go along. For evidence of the dominance of technological faith (and technological fixes) in environmental policy, past and present, see, eg., J. KRIER & E. UR
that engage in international trade choose the law to govern their contracts will dominate attempts to draft uniform ISL. I. THE CREATION OF THE CISG-A BRIEF POLITICAL HISTORY. A. The Drafting History The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) organized the effort to create the CISG in response to the failure of prior efforts to create widely acceptable uniform sales law. 8 The International Institute for the Unification of Private Law, or UNIDROIT, had previously undertaken a three-decade effort that resulted in the 1964 promulgation of two treaties, the Uniform Law for International Sales (ULIS) and the Uniform Law on the Formation of Contracts for International Sales (ULF). Neither attracted adoption in more than nine states, in part because the result was considered to have been dominated by European legal concepts that were not recognized elsewhere. 9 UNCITRAL believed that it could increase adoptions by revising the prior treaties to reflect a more international flavor. UNCITRAL's membership was organized to ensure broad representation in drafting projects. Membership is limited to delegations from 36 states selected by the United Nations General Assembly, 10 and is allocated along geographic lines. States from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and "Western Europe and Others" all have membership assured under the UNCITRAL charter. 11 Thus, the project of reforming the ULIS and ULF necessarily involved representation from affluent and developing countries, common law and civil law systems, and (recall that the project pre-dated democratic movements in Eastern Europe) market-based and 12 Id. at 207-08.
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