In 2023, the UNIDROIT Secretariat participated in the sixty-second session (20-31 March 2023) of the Legal Subcommittee of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, and in its sixty-sixth plenary session (31 May – 9 June 2023) in Vienna, Austria. At the Legal 
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On 12 June 2023, the first meeting of the HCCH-UNIDROIT Joint Project on Law Applicable to Cross-Border Holdings and Transfers of Digital Assets and Tokens took place at the premises of the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) in The 
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On 15 February 2023, the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Space Economy Evolution (SEE) Lab of the SDA Bocconi School of Management. The MoU was signed at a ceremony in Rome which included 
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UNIDROIT has just launched a public consultation in relation to the draft UNIDROIT Principles on Digital Assets and Private Law. For further information please see: Public Consultation: Digital Assets and Private Law The deadline to submit comments is 20 February 2023.
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The Cape Town Convention Academic Project (CTCAP) has created the Cape Town Convention (CTC) international moot court programme (CTC moot court). The purpose of the CTC moot court is to familiarise students and judges with the CTC in the context of complex hypothetical fact patterns 
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The 11th Annual Cape Town Convention Academic Project Conference took place at Robinson College, University of Cambridge, and on Zoom on 13-14 September 2022. The Conference was organised by the Cape Town Convention Academic Project, which a partnership between UNIDROIT and the University of Cambridge Faculty 
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The 6th Workshop for the project on Best Practices in the Field of Electronic Registry Design and Operation (BPER) was organised by the Cape Town Convention Academic Project at the Cavonius Centre, Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge, and on Zoom on 12 September 2022. 
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On 10 June 2022, a Workshop on Issues Related to Enforcement in Digital Assets took place as a side event to the 101st Session of the UNIDROIT Governing Council in Rome and on Zoom. The Workshop was attended by Members of the UNIDROIT Governing Council, 
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On 22 March, Professor Maria Chiara Malaguti, President of UNIDROIT, together with Professor Attila Massimiliano Tanzi, President of the Italian Branch of the International Law Association (ILA Italy), and Professor Anne van Aaken, former Vice-President of European Society of International Law (ESIL), presented to the 
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The UNIDROIT Secretariat, on behalf of the Preparatory Commission for the Establishment of the International Registry for MAC Equipment pursuant to the MAC Protocol (MAC Preparatory Commission), is pleased to announce the publication of the Request for Proposals (RFP) for the International Registry for MAC Equipment. 
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