About Albert H. Kritzer
Professor Kritzer was the architect of the award-winning CISG Database and was also an adjunct professor of law at Pace Law School. He developed a unique online database on the United Nations Convention on Contracts on the International Sales of Goods (the CISG) and taught courses on the CISG. The database has earned a central place in the scholarship, teaching, and practice of international sales law, regularly receiving in excess of 100,000 hits per day. While at the Institute of International Commercial Law, Professor Kritzer also founded the CISG Advisory Council and the CISG Case Translation Network . Additionally, his popular law school seminar frequently produced student research papers that were published in leading academic journals around the world.
The Pace Institute of International Commercial Law sadly noted Professor Kritzer's passing on Tuesday, June 1, 2010. Professor Kritzer died in Egypt where he was to be presented with the 2010 Arab Conference for Commercial & Maritime Law Career Achievement Award. A funeral service was held on Friday, June 4, 2010 at Riverside Memorial Chapel. An informal gathering of family, friends and colleagues to celebrate the life and work of Albert H. Krtizer was held at the Institute of International Commercial Law on Saturday, June 5, 2010. A Tribute in memory of Professor Al Kritzer was held on the occasion of the 43rd session of UNCITRAL in New York. It was held on June 24th at The Tillman Chapel Church Center for the United Nations. Albert Kritzer leaves three daughters and a global network of admirers, former students and colleagues.
To learn more about Professor Kritzer’s extraordinary accomplishments, please visit the CISG database or read Camilla B. Andersen and Ulrich G. Schroeter eds., Sharing International Commercial Law across National Borders: Festschrift for Albert H. Kritzer on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday (2008).