Lauri Railas | LL.D., LL..M. (Helsinki), LL.M. (Lond) |
Mr Railas is an attorney-at-law at Krogerus Attorneys Ltd. based in Helsinki, Finland. His practice includes a variety of sectors relating to contract law and logistics including public procurement and competition law, e-commerce, international trade law, transport law, documentary credits as well as insurance law, in addition to which Mr Railas also works regularly with European law matters. Mr Railas served as the Secretary General of ICC Finland from 1991 to 1996. Mr Railas wrote his doctoral dissertation on the relationship between international trade law and the emergence of the legal regime for e-commerce, which covered also the ICC work cross-sectorally and for which the Vice-Chair of the CLP Commission, Professor Jan Ramberg, kindly served as the opponent. Memberships Task Force on European Contract Law Task Force on Technology Transfer Working Group for the ICC Model International Sale Contract 1997 The Finnish Bar Association FINSIPRO (the Finnish Trade Facilitation Board) The Board of ICC Palvelu Oy (ICC Finland service company) Vice-Chair of the ICC Finland Group on INCOTERMS Drafting Group of Standard Shipping Terms (ICC Finland)
Vitae After graduating from the Finnish law school Mr Railas made further studies in international trade and transport law at the University of London (LSE) as well as in the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law in Oslo. In 1987-90 Mr Railas worked for Sampo Insurance Company Limited with a special focus on marine insurance including hull, P&I and cargo. In 1990, Mr Railas joined the Central Chamber of Commerce of Finland, where his duties included intellectual property and technology law. The first Finnish agreed document on software, hardware & related services saw daylight during that time. Mr Railas also served as the Secretary of the Board of Arbitration of the Central Chamber for six years. During his years in ICC Finland, a national interpretation panel on Incoterms took shape. In 1993, ICC Finland published the regular Russian/English version of Incoterms in 1990. In 1996, a national ICC document designed for contracts of carriage, the Standard Shipping Terms 1996 was published. The years 1996-2002 Mr Railas spent in Brussels as a Principal Administrator at the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union, first as a Legal Advisor in the Legal Service, later in the Directorate General responsible for the Internal Market. Mr Railas served as the Secretary for Working Parties for Public Procurement, Competition, Company Law and Insurance. After returning to Finland, Mr Railas first joined academic circles to finalise his dissertation but sooncommenced his career as a private lawyer. Languages English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Finnish Publications (English and German) The Rise of the Lex Electronica and the International Sale of Goods (doctoral dissertation, 2004) Incoterms for the New Millennium, article in European Transport Law 2000 Incoterms 1990 in the Light of Case Studies (ICC Finland 1996, in Finnish) The ICC Uniform Rules for Demand Guarantees and Contract Bonds (edited translations of the relevant ICC rules, ICC Finland 1994, in Finnish) The ICC Model International Sale Contract (article in Defensor Legis, Finland, 1999, in Finnish) The European Economic Area (article in European Business Law Review, 1992) Recent Developments in Finland (Arbitration Act, Competition Act, article in EBLR 1993) The Sale of Unit Linked Life Assurance Policies in the light of European Law (article in Defensor Legis 2004, in Finnish) Electronic Contracts in International Trade (article in Defensor Legis 2005, in Finnish) The Finnish Electronic Signatures Act, Impact Asessment (The Ministry of Transport and Communications 53/2005, in Finnish, co-writer) The Law on Information Security, An International Comparative Study (The Ministry of Transport and Communications, 2006, in Finnish) The Carriage of Dangerous Goods and Law, the Case of Finland, article published under the DaGOB Project, Turku School of Commerce, 2006 IGAL Handbook on E-commerce Law, the section for Finland, 2006, co-writer
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