Berhooz AKHLAGHI — International Law Office Dr. Berhooz Akhlaghi & Associates, Tehran, Iran

Guido ALPA — Professor of Law, University of Rome I “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

Michael Joachim BONELL — Professor of Law, University of Rome I “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
Chairman of the Working Group

Paul-André CREPEAU — Professor Emeritus, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Samuel K. DATE-BAH — Justice, Supreme Court of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Bénédicte FAUVARQUE-COSSON — Professor of Law, Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II, Paris, France
Rapporteur on the topic of conditions

Paul FINN — Judge of the Federal Court of Australia, Adelaide, Australia

Marcel FONTAINE — Professor Emeritus, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Rapporteur on the topic of plurality of obligors and of obligees

Michael P. FURMSTON — Professor Emeritus, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
Rapporteur on the topic of illegality

Henry D. GABRIEL — DeVan Daggett Professor of Law, Loyola University New Orleans School of Law, New Orleans, United States of America; Member of the UNIDROIT Governing Council

Sir Roy GOODE — Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford, Oxford,United Kingdom; Honorary Member of the UNIDROIT Governing Council

Arthur S. HARTKAMP — Professor of European Private Law, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Member of the UNIDROIT Governing Council

Alexander S. KOMAROV — Professor of Law, Head of Private Law Department, Russian Academy of Foreign Trade, Moscow, Russian Federation; Member of the UNIDROIT Governing Council

Ole LANDO — Professor Emeritus, Copenahagen Business School, Holte, Denmark; Chairman of the Commission on European Contract Law (1980-2001)

Takashi UCHIDA — Professor of Law, Senior Advisor, Civil Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Justice, Tokyo, Japan

João Baptista VILLELA — Professor of Law, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Pierre WIDMER — Professor Emeritus, Former Director of the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Lausanne, Switzerland; Member of the UNIDROIT Governing Council

ZHANG Yuqing — Professor of Law, Beijing Zhang Yuqing Law Firm, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; Member of the UNIDROIT Governing Council

Reinhard ZIMMERMANN — Professor of Law, Director at the Max-Plank-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, Hamburg, Germany
Rapporteur on the topic of unwinding of failed contracts

Mohamed I.M. ABOUL-ENEIN — Director, Cairo Regional Center for International Commercial Arbitration, Cairo, Egypt; Observer for the Cairo Regional Center for International Commercial Arbitration

Ibrahim Hassan AL MULLA — General Manager, Emirates International Law Center, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Observer for the Emirates International Law Center

Eckart BRÖDERMANN — Lawyer, Brödermann & Jahn, Hamburg, Germany; Observer for the Outer Space Group, International Bar Association

Christine CHAPPUIS — Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Observer for the Group de Travail Contrats Internationaux

François DESSEMONTET — Professor of Law, University of Lausanne; Observer for the Swiss Arbitration Association
Rapporteur on the topic of termination of long term contracts for just cause

Lauro GAMA e SOUZA, Jr. — Lawyer, Binenbojm, Gama & Carvalho Britto Advogados, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Observer for the Brazilian Branch of the International Law Association

Alejandro M. GARRO — Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, New York, United States of America; Observer for the New York City Bar

Pilar PERALES VISCASILLAS — Professor of Law, Catedratica de Derecho Mercantil, Universidad de La Rioja, Departamento de Derecho; Observer for the National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade

Hilmar RAESCHKE–KESSLER — Rechtsanwalt beim Bundesgerichtshof, Ettlingen bei Karlsruhe, Germany; Observer for the German Arbitration Institution

Giorgio SCHIAVONI — Vice President of the Milan Chamber of National and International Arbitration, Milan, Italy; Observer for the Milan Chamber of National and International Arbitration

Jernej SEKOLEC — Secretary of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL); Observer for UNCITRAL

Jeremy K. SHARPE — Attorney-Adviser (International), U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., United States of America; Observer for the Institute for Transnational Arbitration of the Center for American and International Law

Christian von BAR — Professor of Law, Director, Institut f. Europäische Rechtswissenschaft, Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany; Observer for the Study Group for a European Civil Code

Anne Marie WHITESELL — Secretary-General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration; Observer for the ICC International Court of Arbitration (2006-2007)

Adrian WINSTANLEY — Director General, London Court of International Arbitration, London, United Kingdom; Observer for the London Court of International Arbitration