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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On 21 and 22 August 2024,  UNIDROIT participated in the second annual session of the APEC Economic Committee in Lima, Peru. UNIDROIT has held guest organisation status with the APEC Economic Committee since 2017. During the Economic Committee session, UNIDROIT Senior Legal Officer William Brydie-Watson 
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From 2 to 4 September 2024, UNIDROIT participated in the second session of the Revisions Committee to the Model Rules on the Permanent identification of Railway Rolling Stock hosted by UN ECE in Geneva. The Model Rules were developed to enable the practical functioning of 
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The third edition of the Official Commentary on the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and Luxembourg Protocol thereto on Matters Specific to Railway Rolling Stock by Professor Sir Roy Goode will be published in October 2024. Pre-publication discounts will be available 
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On 3 June 2024, the Republic of Paraguay completed the national legislative process required to become a Contracting State to the Luxembourg Rail Protocol, the Mining, Agriculture and Construction (MAC) Protocol, and the Space Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape 
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On 15th May 2024, Secretary-General Ignacio Tirado participated in a workshop for industry executives and their advisers involved with the operation and financing of railway rolling stock at the Stockholm Centre of Commercial Law (SCCL) at the University of Stockholm. The workshop provided a general 
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