On 17 October 2024, UNIDROIT President Prof. Maria Chiara Malaguti and Deputy Secretary-General Prof. Anna Veneziano met with the Director of the Space Economy Evolution (SEE) Lab of the SDA Bocconi School of Management, Ms Simonetta Di Pippo, for the announcement of the cooperation between 
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On 7 October 2024, Secretary-General Ignacio Tirado met with the Vice Minister of Multilateral Affairs of Colombia, Kandya Obezo Casseres, at San Carlos Palace in Bogotà, as well as representatives from the Directorate of Economic, Social and Environmental Affairs and the Directorate of Cultural Affairs 
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On 15 October 2024, UNIDROIT Deputy Secretary-General Prof. Anna Veneziano participated in the meeting of the Committee for Liaison with International Organisations and Developing Nations (CLIODN) of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), which was held in the framework of the 75th International Astronautical Congress in 
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On 11 October 2024, Her Excellency, Ms Elizabeth Paula Napeyok, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Republic of Uganda in Italy, accompanied by Mr Daniel Ssekabembe, First Secretary of the Embassy of the Republic of Uganda, visited UNIDROIT to deposit Uganda’s instruments of accession to 
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The 13th Annual Cape Town Convention Academic Project Conference took place at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, and online on 11-12 September 2024. The Conference was organised by the Cape Town Convention Academic Project, which is a partnership between UNIDROIT and the University of Cambridge 
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On 26 September 2024, UNIDROIT participated in a workshop associated with Japan’s ongoing secured transactions reform project. Hosted by Tokyo University, the event brought together Japan’s leading secured transactions law professors to discuss Japan’s consideration of international secured transactions standards, including Professors Hiroto Dogauchi, Hiroo Sono, Masami 
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On 25 September 2024, UNIDROIT co-hosted a consultation workshop with the Japanese Ministry of Justice (MOJ) and the Japan Construction Equipment Manufacturers Association (CEMA) on the Mining, Agriculture and Construction (MAC) Protocol to the Cape Town Convention. Held at Chuo University in Tokyo, the workshop 
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Registration is now open for the second Asia-Pacific International Private Law Summit (APIPLS), to be held on 4 November 2024 in Hong Kong, China. Jointly hosted by UNIDROIT and the Department of Justice of the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s 
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On 13 September 2024, UNIDROIT and the University of Cambridge jointly hosted an international conference regarding Sustainable Economic Development through Credit Expansion – A Focus on the Mining, Agriculture and Construction (MAC) Protocol and Rail Protocol”. Held at the Cavonius Centre of Gonville and Caius 
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The UNIDROIT Secretariat is pleased to announce that Professor Jeffrey Wool was appointed the first Senior Academic Fellow under the newly founded UNIDROIT  Fellowship Programme. His renowned contributions to transnational commercial law, generally, and to UNIDROIT, specifically, alongside his many other remarkable professional achievements, have 
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