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In the context of a UNIDROIT – Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chair Programme (MAECI), the UNIDROIT Secretariat is currently inviting applications for the position of Chair Holder/ Researcher. The new UNIDROIT/MAECI Chair Programme in...
The instrument of approval of the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention was deposited by Mexico with the Italian Government, Depositary of the Convention, on 11 May 2022. The Convention will thus enter into force for Mexico on...
On 2 May 2022, UNIDROIT received a delegation from Mongolia lead by the Vice-Minister of Justice and Home Affairs with other representatives of the Ministry, parliamentarians and the Director of the National Legal Institute of...
On 29 April 2022, UNIDROIT hosted a Conference on Digital Platforms and Global Governance, Co-organised with Professor Fabio Bassan of Roma Tre University and the European Law Institute (ELI). The Hybrid Conference was opened by...
On 26-28 April 2022, the Working Group on Best Practices for Effective Enforcement, chaired by Governing Council member Kathryn Sabo, met at UNIDROIT’s Headquarters in Rome and via Zoom to discuss the outcome of the...
On Monday 2 May 2022, Legal Officer Ms Priscila Andrade delivered a lecture to the students of the Programme “Diritto Privato Comparato delle persone e dei mercati” – Università degli Studi di Milano. The lecture...
On Tuesday 19 April 2022 Senior Legal Officer William Brydie-Watson delivered an online lecture on UNIDROIT’s role in harmonising private international law to the International Law Section of the Law Council of Australia. Ms Suzanne...
In times of armed conflict, measures to protect cultural heritage should be reinforced, notably in the framework of the UNESCO 1970 Convention against illicit trafficking of cultural property and other relevant international instruments. UNESCO, UNIDROIT,...
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.