The unprecedented economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the Rail Sector is the focus of an article recently published by Mr Howard Rosen, Chairman of the Rail Working Group.
Consulting Company Oxera has released a study conducted for the Rail Working Group that assesses that the economic savings that the Luxembourg Rail Protocol could entail for the African Continent amount to billions of USD.
On 30 April, Secretary-General Ignacio Tirado was invited to participate in an online forum entitled “Toward Coordinated Implementation of International Standards for Secured Transactions” co-organised by the Kozolchyk National Law Center (NatLaw) and the World Bank Group.
On 30 April 2020, Legal Consultant Mr Hamza Hameed delivered a lecture via videoconferencing to the students of the Advanced Master’s LLM in Air and Space Law Programme at Leiden University.
On 23 April 2020, Ms Priscila Andrade, UNIDROIT Legal Officer, by video conference presented UNIDROIT’s work and instruments in the area of Private Law and Agricultural Development to a group of students of the School of Law, University of Washington (UW).
UNIDROIT is pleased to announce the launch of a new website for the Cape Town Convention Academic Project.
On 26 March 2020, UNIDROIT and UNCITRAL co-organised a webinar to discuss with a broader expert audience the proposal of developing an international Model Law on Warehouse Receipts.
On 30 March 2020, the ELI-UNIDROIT project on European Rules of Civil Procedure was presented in a lecture at the IE Law School (Madrid).
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Governing Council
99th session (A)
(Remote session April/May 2020)
Factoring Model Law Working
Group - 1st session
(Remote session, 1-3 July 2020)
6th Workshop for the Economic Assessment of International Commercial Law Reform Project
(Postponed to 8 September 2020, Cambridge, UK)
4th Workshop for the project on Best Practices in the Field of Electronic Registry Design and Operation
(Postponed to 9 September 2020, Cambridge, UK)
9th Annual Cape Town Convention Academic Conference
(10-11 September 2020, Cambridge, UK)
