Antonio Gidi , Geoffrey C. Hazard , Michele Taruffo and Rolf Stürner (University of Houston Law Center , University of Pennsylvania , University of Pavia and University of Freiburg) have posted Introduction to the Principles and Rules of Transnational Civil Procedure on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This is an introduction to the ALI/UNIDROIT Project Principles and Rules of Transnational Civil Procedure. This text is the Discussion Draft N. 2. of 2001. At its conclusion, a few years later, it was published as Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure (with the Rules attached as a Reporter’s Note) by Cambridge University Press.