MAC PROTOCOL - DIPLOMATIC CONFERENCE (Pretoria 11-22 November 2019)

On Tuesday 15 October UNIDROIT held an international briefing event to discuss the MAC Protocol to the Cape Town Convention at the UNIDROIT headquarters in Rome, Italy.

On 25-26 September 2019, Deputy Secretary General Anna Veneziano participated in a face-to-face meeting on the draft Legal Guide to International Commercial Contracts (with a Focus on Sales) which was held in Frankfurt a.M., at the Max-Planck Institute for European Legal History.

Between 23-26 September, Hamza Hameed, Legal Consultant at UNIDROIT, participated at the United Nations/Turkey/APSCO Conference on Space Law and Policy held in Istanbul.

On 20 September 2019, Roma Tre University and UNIDROIT co-hosted the Sixth Edition of the Annual International Arbitration Lecture entitled “Globalization. A Deconstruction and Reformulation of Investor-State Arbitration within the Rubric of the UNIDROIT Principles. A Conceptual Journey”.

On 18 September 2019, on the occasion of the launch of the posthumous publication of “Diritto del Commercio Internazionale: Fondamenti e Prospettive”  (Mazzoni, A., Malaguti, M.C., Giappichelli Editore, 2019, Turin; Working English Title “International Commercial Law: Foundation and Prospects”, forthcoming), UNIDROIT hosted a round table in memory of President  Professor Alberto Mazzoni, who passed away on 6 May.

On 12-13 September 2019, the 11th Transnational Commercial Law Teachers’ Meeting was hosted in London by the Queen Mary-UNIDROIT Institute of Transnational Commercial Law, a joint venture between the Centre for Commercial Law Studies of the Queen Mary University of London and UNIDROIT.

An international conference titled ‘The MAC Protocol: Legal and economic benefits for States, international trade and development’ was held at Clyde & Co in London on Thursday, 12 September 2019.