UNCITRAL Events and News

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.

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

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.

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.