GMAP Internship Report / GMAP インターンシップ報告書
No. 2019-02
I. Basic information / 基本情報
1) Name / 名前：Kosit Prasitveroj
2) Enrolled year / 入学年：2019
3) Period of internship / インターン期間：February 3, 2020 to March 31, 2020
4) Place of internship / インターン場所：UNCITRAL-RCAP
5) Person who accepted your internship / インターン受入担当者：Ms. Athita Komindr6) Content of work in your internship / インターン中の作業内容：Promotion of the uniformity ofinternational trade laws at the global level.

II. Details and impressions / 詳細と感想
Including the following points: merits, demerits, lessons, contribution to your future career,
personal experience etc.
UNCITRAL, as a whole, promotes the uniformity of the international trade laws, the works of which
are evinced in form of various model laws and conventions implemented worldwide. By honourably
having the opportunity to join the internship at UNCITRAL-RCAP—the regional office ofUNCITRAL of which the mandates cover the legislations in Asia and Pacific regions—I was required
to choose three different areas of law relating to the works of UNCITRAL-RCAP for the concentration
during my internship. Based on my interests and experiences, I decided to choose (1) international
arbitration, (2) international mediation and (3) public-private partnership and public procurement.
During the internship, all legal interns, including me, were tasked to research and update the news oninternational trades on weekly basis. This news includes the negotiations or executions of international
investment and free-trade agreements, updates on domestic legislation relevant to international trades
and the governments’ actions or approaches that may be likely to affect the international trades. From
the news being gathered, the legal experts at UNCITRAL-RCAP would view if there is anything worth
deeper analysis. Then, should there be any, they would assign the interns to conduct further analysis
for the official publication. This task allowed me to look beyond the texts themselves and see thepolitical and economic factors that indispensably shape the international trade laws. By working
together with other interns from various countries, on the weekly basis, we exchanged the views onpolitics and economics from each country.

1Another ongoing task was to update CLOUT—the case law on UNCITRAL texts—due to which theinterns were required to conduct the researches and update the cases—in which UNCITRAL texts areapplied—from the countries under UNCITRAL-RCAP’s coverages. This was my most favourite task.
This is because, as an arbitration enthusiast, I have been involved with various arbitration cases. From
this, I have learnt that Thai arbitration laws and court decisions thereon carry many defects that require
serious rectifications. By updating CLOUT, not only to review Thai cases in detail, it allowed me tocompare them with the approaches from other jurisdictions, with regards to both legal frameworks andjudicial interpretations. This entrustment has shed light over my potential academic works oramendment of Thai laws in the future.
In addition, it was indeed my luck to do the internship at the exact moment where the staffs at
UNCITRAL had to publish the annual report. Therefore, I was tasked to conduct the researches onimplementations and developments thereof of UNCITRAL texts in Asia and Pacific regions. Since thescope of UNCITRAL texts went beyond international arbitration, such task has effectively widenedboundary of knowledge. I was thereby enlightened with countless legal frameworks that I had neverknown prior, inter alia, those on insolvency, electronic transaction, electronic signature and maritime
carriage. Then, my assignment included drafting the annual report on the implementation ofUNCITRAL texts, supervised by the legal expert from Hong Kong.
Some ad hoc assignments included the researches on recently enacted laws in certain countries, forinstance, Cambodian electronic transaction and consumer protection laws. The largest one amongst
the ad hoc tasks was the research project on electronic transaction laws in Asia and Pacific regions, inparticular, those pertaining to trading platform and consumer protection. This assignment was the mostchallenging one. The factors contributing thereto were me being a newbie in the electronic transaction
realm and scale of the project itself. However, albeit being arduous, through the kind supervisions frommy supervisor and staffs from Vienna office, I was eventually able to render the summary of the same.
This task was of significance in expending my knowledge on electronic transaction and the importanceand need of the regulation of the trading platforms nowadays.
Apart from the assignments, the environment at the office was splendid. I worked at the well-decorated
building in which most floors are occupied by many UN offices. The staffs at UNCITRAL-RCAP
were very knowledgeable, professional and kind. Working with them has magnificently inspired me
to become more professional, especially, when it comes to the work at international level. The interns
there were friendly and smart. My jubilation of the internship was significantly ascribed to people there.
And, in spite of the necessity of work-from-home policy resulting from the novel coronavirus thatpartially affected my internship, UNCITRAL’s staffs had proved their professionalisms by swiftly
adapting the work systems to match the current dynamics, which, at the same time, preserved theeffectiveness of the works and accesses to initial resources. The work-from-home policy andmechanism introduced by UNCITRAL offered me more flexible and time-efficient methods in the2midst of this crisis. This somehow allowed me to experience firsthand how to work professionally inthe face of urgent accidents. Perhaps, what you lose on the swing, you gain on the roundabout.
Indeed, this internship contributes to my deepened and broadened knowledge on international tradelaws. Moreover, it taught me to pay more attentions to the environments surrounding us that play apivotal role in shaping the legal frameworks, for instance, politics and economics. Since I have planned
to resume being a dispute resolution lawyer at the law firm after my graduation, and, if possible, withthe concurrent academic profession, this internship—that has apparently strengthened my practicaland academic foundations—thus has marked the crucial milestones of my life.

[I did not take any photo as I was mostly working from home.]

April 7, 2020（Date / 記載日）

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