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.
Private Law and Agricultural Development is an important branch of the Work Programme of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT).
As in 2017 for the G7 Culture, UNIDROIT has been invited this year to attend the G20 Culture Ministerial meetings. Professor Maria Chiara Malaguti, President of UNIDROIT, is participating in the panel discussion “’United Against Crime’, Intergovernmental, Judicial and Police Cooperation” of the G20 Culture online meeting which is taking place on 9 April 2021 to discuss “Private Law as the basis for effective action”.
On 31 March, UNIDROIT and BHO Legal hosted an international panel discussion to examine the benefits of asset-based space financing in the post-COVID-19 economy.
The 53rd session of the UN Economic Commission for Africa was held from 17 to 23 March, dedicated to Africa’s Sustainable Industrialization and Diversification in the Digital Era in the Context of COVID-19.
On 17-19 March 2021, Ms Philine Wehling, UNIDROIT Legal Officer, delivered a lecture on “International Sources of Contract Law: the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts” to postgraduate students of the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization (ITC-ILO).
We are pleased to announce the winners of the UNIDROIT COVID-19 Essay Competition, supported by Stibbe, and facilitated by the UNIDROIT Foundation: Augusto Garcia Sanjur, Soterios Loizou, Benedetta Mauro, Tamás Szabados, and Gabriella Prado.
The instrument of accession to the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention has been deposited by Benin with the Italian Government, Depositary of the Convention, on 11 January 2021 and the Convention will enter into force for Benin on 1 July 2021.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Legal Structure of Agricultural Enterprises Project Webinar
(15-16 April 2021, Remote)
Best Practices for Effective Enforcement Working Group
2nd session
(20-22 April 2021, Rome-remote)
Factoring Model Law Working Group
3rd Session
(26-28 May 2021, Rome-remote)
Official Commentary MAC Protocol
(May, 2021)
MAC Preparatory Commission
3rd Session
(3-4 June 2021, Rome-remote)
10th Cape Town Convention Academic Conference
(13-14 September 2021, Cambridge, UK)
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