David A. Levy is a Legal Officer / Legal Librarian with UNCITRAL, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law. From 1997 to 1999 he was the Interim Editor of International Legal Materials, published by the American Society of International Law (ASIL), where he founded, along with Elizabeth Fabrizio, the new ASIL publication International Law In Brief. He is a graduate of the School of Law at Southern Methodist University, holds an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law (with distinction) from Georgetown University Law Center, and is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar. Mr. Levy also pursued coursework in philosophy and theology at The College of Saint Thomas More. Mr. Levy was formerly the Kronstein Research Fellow at the International Law Institute and has also worked with the State Department Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law where he has been involved in commercial law harmonization and setting up the Private International Law Database (PILDB).
Mr. Levy is the author of Contract Formation under the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, UCC, Restatement, and CISG, 30 Uniform Commercial Code Law Journal 249 (1998); Financial Leasing Under the UNIDROIT Convention and the U.C.C.: A Comparative Analysis, 5 Indiana International & Comparative Law Review 267 (1995); BOT and Public Procurement: A Conceptual Framework, 7 Indiana International & Comparative Law Review 95 (1996); Bulgarian Trade and Investment: A Realistic Assessment, 27 Case Western Journal of International Law 203 (1995); and The Constitutional Court: A Bulgarian Response to Obsolescent Law, 4 Yearbook of International Law (University of Miami) 1 (1995). He is the co-author, along with Professor Janelle M. Diller, of Child Labor, Trade and Investment: Toward the Harmonization of International Law, published by the American Society of International Law in 91 American Journal of International Law 663 (1997). He is also coauthor, with Professor Don Wallace, Jr., and Robert B. Shanks, of the book, Model Foreign Investment Law With Annotations (1996), and formerly served as the editor of the Gulf War Claims Reporter.
Mr. Levy served as a member of the Study Groups on Electronic Commerce and Privately-Financed Infrastructure Projects of the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Private International Law and participated in the work of the Information Security Committee of the EDI and Information Technology Division, Science and Technology Section, American Bar Association. Mr. Levy has also conducted a legal assessment of the draft Latvian Customs Code and the draft Civil Code Sections on Property Rights of the Republic of Uzbekistan, for the American Bar Association's Central and Eastern European Law Initiative (CEELI). Mr. Levy has worked as a Legal Consultant to the World Bank Administrative Tribunal and in Fall 1999 served as a lecturer at the Washington College of Law, American University.
Status as of 21/Feb./2000