VJ Home: Archive: Abstract Report (1998) 2 VJ 1, 55-61 40 Years New York Convention - Past, Present and Future Richard Happ* This report deals with the "New York Convention Day", a one-day-symposium held on 10 June 1998 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York that focussed on legal issues involving the United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards 1958. The author outlines the major topics discussed by the distinguished experts that spoke at the conference. * The author is a Research Assistant at the Chair for Civil Law, Civil Procedure, International Trade and Litigation and Comparative Law, Juristisches Seminar, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel (Germany).