UNIDROIT AND COVID-19

In the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the attendant economic crisis, a number of leading UNIDROIT instruments may be of interest to a wide array of actors currently facing serious challenges to address contractual disruptions and to rebuild the economy in the post COVID-19 scenario.

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On 20 January 2021, UNIDROIT was invited to participate in an online course on “Technology and Legal Innovation”, a joint initiative of Hitotsubashi University and the University of Cambridge.

A tribute to the late Professor Folarin Olawale Shyllon, who fought for over 50 years against illicit trafficking of cultural property.

On 18 January 2021, UNIDROIT participated in the 8th PRICL (Principles of Reinsurance Contract Law) Workshop, which was held on line en-lieu of the biannual Working Group meeting which was originally scheduled for March 2021.

The instrument of ratification of the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention has been deposited by Côte d’Ivoire with the Italian Government, Depositary of the Convention, on 23 December 2020 and the Convention will enter into force for Côte d’Ivoire on 1 June 2021.

On 8 January 2021, Legal Officer Philine Wehling delivered a lecture via videoconference to the postgraduate students from the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization (ITC-ILO) in Turin.

The University of Geneva, UNIDROIT and the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art are organising a conference on 4 and 5 February 2021 on the theme of "Orphan Works".

On 17 December 2020, the 79^th session of the General Assembly of UNIDROIT was held at the seat of the Institute in Rome and virtually via Zoom.