UNCITRAL Model Laws on Digital Trade: Electronic Transferable Records, Digital Identity and Trust Services...

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Luca G Castellani (UNCITRAL Secretariat, Austria) Michael S Coffee (US Department of State)

UNCITRAL Model Laws on Digital Trade

Electronic Transferable Records, Digital Identity and Trust Services

Luca G Castellani (UNCITRAL Secretariat, Austria), Michael S Coffee (US Department of State), Henry D Gabriel (Elon University, USA)

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Hart Publishing
18 September 2025

Series: Hart Studies in Commercial and Financial Law

This book provides a detailed analysis of two UNCITRAL texts: the Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (MLETR) and the Model Law on the Use and Cross-border Recognition of Identity Management and Trust Services (MLIT).

The MLETR is the legal tool that enables the use of trade documents such as bills of lading and promissory notes in electronic form. The book discusses in depth core MLETR provisions such as those on scope of application, functional equivalence, and reliability standards. It illustrates national variations in enactment techniques and substantive content in laws enacting MLETR, including in France, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.

The MLIT provides the legal framework to manage identity management and trust services, including electronic signatures. The book explains the different approaches to giving legal recognition and effect to identity management and trust services (‘ex-ante’, ‘ex-post’ and ‘two-tier’), both domestically and across borders, highlighting advantages and disadvantages vis-à-vis the policy goals of legal predictability and business flexibility. It discusses the legal framework to accommodate functions and needs of identity management. It also describes trust services, with a focus on electronic signatures, against the background of pre-existing UNCITRAL texts, and takes into account the revised EU eIDAS Regulation.

Providing an article-by-article commentary as well as an overview of implementation trends for both instruments, the book is a fundamental resource for commercial, maritime and banking lawyers, digital economy policymakers, legislative drafters, supply chain management and paperless trade specialists, and for anyone interested in understanding the legal aspects of the transition from documents to data in trade.

By: Luca G Castellani (UNCITRAL Secretariat Austria), Michael S Coffee (US Department of State), Henry D Gabriel (Elon University, USA)
Imprint: Hart Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781509937417
ISBN 10: 1509937412
Series: Hart Studies in Commercial and Financial Law
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 18 September 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Luca G Castellani is a legal officer in the Secretariat of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Austria.