UNCITRAL Events and News

UNCITRAL Events and Colloquia

29 August 2022 to 02 September 2022

Singapore Convention Week will be held from 29 August - 2 September 2022 this year. The UNCITRAL Academy, jointly organised by the Singapore Ministry of Law and the United Nations Commission on International Law (UNCITRAL) will be held from 30 August to 1 Stepember 2022. The theme for this year's UNCITRAL Academy conference is "Embracing Global Change, Navigating New Possibilities". The conference will explore the evolution of the legal industry and international commercial dispute resolution.

07 July 2022

A side event of the 55th Commission session,  “UNCITRAL and the Law of Digital Trade”, was co-organised by UNCITRAL, the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Korea, the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations, and supported by UNCITRAL RCAP.

24 June 2022

On Friday 24 June 2022, the Head of UNCITRAL RCAP (https://uncitral.un.org/en/TA/regionalcentre_asia_pacific) Athita Komindr and UNCITRAL Legal Officer Judith Knieper will speak on the Singapore Convention on Mediation, recent developments in the Asia-Pacific, and mediation and Investor-State Dispute Settlement in Session 1 of a webinar hosted by the Korea International Mediation Centre (KIMC) for the Asia Pacific Centre for Arbitration & Mediation (APCAM) Webinar Series - A New Era of International Mediation.

01 June 2022 to 05 June 2022

The UNCITRAL Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific and the Ministry of Justice of Sri Lanka will co-host the first Colombo Arbitration Week from 1 to 5 June 2022.

UNCITRAL Legal Officer Judith Knieper will be speaking on the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration and UNCITRAL Expedited Arbitration Rules for the opening panel discussion "Proposed Arbitration Act: A Fresh Start for Sri Lanka?" taking place on 1 June 2022 from 04.00 to 07.00 PM Sri Lanka time (+5.30 GMT)/07.30 to 10.30 PM Korea Standard Time/12.30 to 03.30 PM Central European Summer Time.

11 May 2022

La Commission des Nations Unies pour le droit commercial international (CNUDCI), la Chambre de commerce et d’industrie du Bénin et la Chambre de commerce et d’industrie du Togo, avec le soutien de la Chambre de commerce internationale (ICC) et de la Conférence Permanente des Chambres Consulaires Africaines et Francophones (CPCCAF), ont organisé le 11 mai 2022 un webinaire portant sur la digitalisation du commerce au Togo et au Bénin, qui faisait suite au webinaire sur les enjeux et défis de l’économie numérique en Afrique et dans la sphère francophone organisé par la CNUDCI, l’OIF et l’OHADA en mai 2021.  Programme / Note de contexte / Enregistrement du webinaire

 

05 May 2022

Co-organised by UNCITRAL, the Department of Justice, Hong Kong SAR, and the Asian Academy of International Law (AAIL), the UNCITRAL Working Group III on ISDS Reform Forum aims to explore specific key issues in respect of the proposed model clauses and guidelines on investment mediation, as well as future drafting work of the UNCITRAL Working Group III. The inter-sessional meeting will take place on 5 May 2022 (9:00 - 12:00 (GMT+8) for part I and 18:30 - 21:05 (GMT+8) for part II) (evening session open to WG III delegations only). For further details, please see the attached e-flyer and register at https://aail.org/2022-05-05-uncitral-wgiii-forum/#. Video recording of event

27 March 2022

Jointly organized by the Hong Kong Department of Justice, the Asian Academy of International Law, the Moot Alumni Association and supported by the UNCITRAL Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific, the 2022 CISG conference themed “The CISG, 40 Years and Beyond: What the Past Will Bring to the Future” will take place on 27 March 2022. This conference will bring together international experts to share their perspectives on the CISG’s achievements in the past, developments presently in the works, as well as the anticipated challenges and impacts for the future. In particular, the presentations will focus on the developments of the CISG in the APAC region, including Hong Kong, as well as its potential impacts on the future work of railway consignment. For further details, please see the attached e-flyer. Read more about the event at the Asian Academy of International Law page. Register here.

10 March 2022

Jointly organized by the UNCITRAL Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific and the Bangladesh International Arbitration Centre (BIAC),  the Webinar was held on 10 March 2022 Thursday 2:00 pm-3:35 pm, Bangladesh Standard Time/9:00 am-10:35 am Austria Standard Time/5:00 pm-6:35 pm Korean Standard Time via Zoom. The Webinar themed “Alternative Dispute Resolution and International Sale of Goods: Time to Benefit from CISG?” discussed the role of ADR in resolving disputes over international transactions and how Bangladesh can benefit from CISG through panel sessions with world-renowned practitioners and academics. A recording of the webinar can be viewed here

07 December 2021 to 08 December 2021

Co-organized by UNCITRAL, the Ministry of Justice of Japan (MOJ), and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the 2021 Tokyo Forum on Dispute Resolution, themed “Enhancing the principles of dispute resolution in the digital economy”, was held virtually on Tuesday 7 December 2021 and Wednesday 8 December 2021. Two of the three sessions were dedicated to the stocktaking of developments in dispute resolution in the digital economy, an area which will be featured at the UNCITRAL colloquium on possible future work on dispute settlement in late March 2022.

09 November 2021 to 15 December 2021

The UNCITRAL Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific (RCAP) is pleased to announce the initial line-up and kick-off of its UNCITRAL Asia Pacific Day 2021 (AP Day) academic series. The main theme of the UNCITRAL Asia Pacific Day 2021 is “Enabling MSMEs and Assisting Economic Recovery through Legal Harmonization”. The UNCITRAL AP Day 2021 series was launched with 3 activities in the Republic of Korea by Chung-Ang University, Inha University, and Seoul National University on 13, 14, and 26 October 2021, respectively. Find the calendar of events for this year's events here. RCAP also invites readers to revisit last year's AP Day series via the 2020 AP Day report.

News Articles

29 November 2023

With its ratification of the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation (the "Singapore Convention on Mediation"), Nigeria becomes the 13th State Party to the Convention. Read the full press release here.

20 November 2023

With its signing of the United Nations Convention on the International Effects of Judicial Sales of Ships (the “Beijing Convention on the Judicial Sale of Ships”), Ecuador becomes the 17th signatory to the Convention. Read the full press release here.

01 November 2023

The monthly compilation for October of the bibliography of recent writings related to the work of UNCITRAL is now available.

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