On 19 April 2016, the eve of the special session of its General Assembly, UNIDROIT hosted the second Event of the celebration series: a lecture co-sponsored with Roma Tre University entitled “Reflections on the League of Nations on the 90th Anniversary of UNIDROIT”, which addressed the Legacy of the League of Nations and explore its relationships with UNIDROIT.
The event was an occasion to celebrate the publication of the volume “Commentaire du Pacte de la Société des Nations” (Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2015, pp. 1428) edited by Robert Kolb (Full professor of international law, University of Geneva). The proceedings were opened by Alberto Mazzoni (President of Unidroit) and chaired by Prof. Giulio Bartolini (Roma Tre University), and included speeches by Prof. Luciano Tosi, (University of Perugia), Prof. Ivan Ingravallo (University of Bari), and closed by José Angelo Estrella Faria (Secretary-General of UNIDROIT).
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| From the left: Mr José Angelo Estrella Faria (Secretary General of UNIDROIT), Professors Ivan Ingaravallo (University of Bari), Giulio Bartolini (Roma Tre University), Alberto Mazzoni (President of UNIDROIT), Robert Kolb (University of Geneva) and Luciano Tosi (University of Perugia) |
Professor Robert Kolb (University of Geneva) delivering his lecture |
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.