On 12 March 2024, UNIDROIT Deputy Secretary-General Anna Veneziano and Dean Amarsanaa Batbold of the School of Law, National University of Mongolia signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to further strengthen and expand existing exchanges and cooperation between the two institutions. The MoU aims to 
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Between 4 to 6 March 2024, the Working Group on Bank Insolvency met for its sixth session at the seat of UNIDROIT in Rome and online via Zoom. The meeting was attended by 15 individual experts and over 60 representatives of the Working Group’s institutional 
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On 8 March 2024, at a special intergovernmental meeting at the Universal Postal Union in Bern, Switzerland, the Luxembourg Rail Protocol to the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment formally entered into force. The ceremony follows the successful conclusion of the 12th 
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On 26 February 2024, UNIDROIT invited its Membership and members of the international and Italian legal community in Rome to an event designed to present a flagship project the Institute has embarked upon to reorganize and publish its archives, which contain, among others, governance documents, 
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On 28 February 2024, UNIDROIT received a delegation from the Shanghai International Arbitration Centre, led by Secretary-General Ms. Wang Weijun. UNIDROIT President Maria Chiara Malaguti, Secretary-General Ignacio Tirado, Deputy Secretary-General Anna Veneziano, Legal Officers Theodora Kostoula and Ian Li, received the delegation that accompanied Secretary-General 
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On 16 February 2024, UNIDROIT Deputy Secretary-General Anna Veneziano and AALCO Secretary-General Kamalinne Pinitpuvadol signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to further strengthen existing exchanges and cooperation between the two institutions. The MoU aims to promote joint cooperation by, inter alia, participating in each other’s 
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On 27 February 2024, UNIDROIT Secretary-General Ignacio Tirado participated in a Practical workshop on the implementation of the Luxembourg Rail Protocol in Madrid, jointly organised by the Rail Working Group and law firm Bird & Bird. The event, which brought together practitioners, academics, and industry 
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      On the 23rd and 24th of February 2024, UNIDROIT Principal Legal Officer and Treaty Depositary Marina Schneider was invited to join a Workshop on Crimes Against Cultural Heritage organised in Kiev by the European Union Advisory Mission (EUAM)-Ukraine. The two-day event focused attention 
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The call for applications for the 3rd edition of UNIDROIT’s International Law and Development Programme (IPLD) is online! IPLD 2024 will be held from 6 June to 5 July 2024, the first two weeks online and the following three weeks face-to-face at UNIDROIT’s headquarters in 
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The Portuguese translation of the black-letter rules of the ELI-UNIDROIT Model European Rules of Civil Procedure is now available on the UNIDROIT website. The translation was prepared by Professors Paula Costa e Silva, Edilson Vitorelli and João Marques Martins. More information about the ELI-UNIDROIT Model 
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