On 4 February 2025, UNIDROIT welcomed a delegation of students from the University of Seoul, Law School, accompanied by Professor Byoung-Ho Jung. Legal Officer Philine Wehling introduced the students to UNIDROIT including its governance, working methods and instruments, and then presented the UNIDROIT Principles of 
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The call for applications for the fourth edition of the Unidroit International Programme for Law and Development (IPLD) Africa Plus is now live! Scheduled to run from 3 June to 5 July 2025, this highly anticipated programme offers participants a unique blend of online learning 
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On 29 January 2025 Secretary-General Ignacio Tirado opened a three day mission in Belgrade with a meeting with the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mr Dušan Kozarev, and the Head of the International Law Department Mr Vladimir Cvetkovic. Together with Professor Jelena 
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On January 28, 2025, the inaugural session of the UNIDROIT Asian Transnational Law Centre (ATLC) Seminar Series took place at UNIDROIT’s headquarters in Rome, Italy, with both in-person and online participation. Focused on the theme Digital Assets and Their Legal Application and Development in Asia, 
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On 27 January 2025, the Republic of South Africa, which is already a Party to the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and to its the Protocol on Matters specific to Aircraft Equipment, officially deposited its instrument of ratification of the Luxembourg 
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On 17 January 2025, Deputy Secretary General Professor Anna Veneziano and Principal Legal Officer Professor Meiling Huang received a delegation from Renmin University of China (RUC) headed by their Dean, Professor Dong Yang. The existing framework of the Memorandum of Understanding between UNIDROIT and RUC 
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From 15 to 17 January 2025, the fourth session of the Working Group on the Legal Nature of Verified Carbon Credits (VCCs) convened in a hybrid format at the UNIDROIT Headquarters in Rome. Held in collaboration with the World Bank, the session gathered 59 participants, 
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On 17-18 January 2025, UNIDROIT Secretary-General Professor Ignacio Tirado attended the BCBS-FSI High-level meeting for Africa, organised by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) and the Financial Stability Institute (FSI) of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), in coordination with the South African Reserve 
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On 18-19 December 2024, UNIDROIT Secretary General Professor Ignacio Tirado participated in the AMF-BCBS-FSI High-level meeting on financial stability and regulatory and supervisory priorities in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The summit gathered senior banking supervisors and central bankers, to discuss emerging risks and trends 
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The International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Law (HUJI). This agreement was signed on 21 January 2025 during a working session on compliance with transnational commercial law treaties, a 
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