In 1987 Professor Gino Gorla, formerly Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, donated to the UNIDROIT Library his collection of antique books which served as a support to his research on case law in Europe from the 17th to the early part of the 19th Century.
This collection of over 550 titles comprising about 900 volumes is composed of treatises, commentaries, collections of decisiones, resolutiones, consilia, responsa, allegationes and controversiae forenses, as well as a number of books dealing specifically with commercial law and maritime law.
The collection, catalogued by Ms Paula Howarth of the UNIDROIT Secretariat, has been conserved as a whole and is presently shelved in its own room in the UNIDROIT Library.
rofessor Ignacio Tirado was appointed Secretary-General by the Governing Council at its 97th session, and officially took office on 27 August 2018. A national of Spain, Professor Tirado (Commercial, Corporate and Insolvency Law, Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, Spain) holds a PhD from the Universities of Bologna and Autónoma de Madrid and an LLM from the University of London. Professor Tirado has been a Senior Legal Consultant at the World Bank’s Legal Vice-Presidency and Financial Sector Practice for more than nine years, having also consulted for the IMF on insolvency related matters as well as for the Asian Development Bank on commercial legal reform.