Sessions and Events

  • 24 June–12 July 2024, New York
  • 25–29 September 2023, Vienna (falls on Yom Kippur)
  • 5–9 February 2024, New York
  • 2–6 September 2024, Vienna (tentative)
  • 30 September–4 October 2024, Vienna (tentative)
  • 1–5 April 2024, New York
  • 23–27 September 2024, Vienna (tentative)
  • 16–20 October 2023, Vienna
  • 15–19 April 2024, New York
  • 18–22 November 2024, Vienna (tentative)
  • 11–15 December 2023, Vienna
  • 13–17 May 2024, New York
  • 25–29 November 2024, Vienna (tentative)
  • 27 November–1 December 2023, Vienna (falls on Gurpurab)
  • 6–10 May 2024, New York
  • 9–13 December 2024, Vienna (tentative)

Events

21 May 2024 to 22 May 2024

The Fourteenth Multinational Judicial Colloquium on Insolvency, co-sponsored by INSOL International, UNCITRAL and The World Bank Group, will take place in San Diego on Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 May 2024. Since 1995 INSOL International and UNCITRAL have co-sponsored Multinational Judicial Colloquia on Insolvency. Since 2007 The World Bank Group has joined as co-sponsor.  These Colloquiums, held biannually in various locations around the world, have brought together judges, regulators and judicial officials from different jurisdictions to consider a wide range of insolvency-related issues. These issues have included judicial co-operation in cases of cross-border insolvency, access to courts by insolvency practitioners and recognition of insolvency administrations by foreign courts.The Colloquium is restricted to judges who deal with insolvency matters. The Colloquium will be in English. Click here for more information.

19 March 2024

The UNCITRAL Secretariat will hold the second edition of the discussion entitled “UNCITRAL's Dispute Resolution in the Digital Economy Initiative” during the Paris Arbitration Week. The event will be hosted by Science Po Law School. 

Date & Time: Tuesday, 19 March 2024, from 15:00 to 16:30 CET

Venue: Sciences Po Law School - Salle du Conseil (5th Floor), 13 rue de l'Université, 75007 Paris
Registration

Read more about the event here.

13 March 2024

Co-organized by UNCITRAL, the Ministry of Justice of Japan (MOJ), and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the 2024 Tokyo Forum on Dispute Resolution, themed “Enhancing credibility, certainty and enforceability of international dispute resolution”, will be held in person and virtually on Wednesday, 13 March 2024. The second session will address UNCITRAL’s project on stocktaking of developments in dispute resolution in the digital economy (DRDE), from which findings and future work proposals are expected to be presented at the Commission session in June/July 2024. The first session led by the ICSID will tackle international investment disputes, including on the new ICSID Rules. The event will be conducted in English with simultaneous Japanese translation provided.

08 November 2023

On 8 November, the UNCITRAL secretariat held the 2023 Dispute Resolution in the Digital Economy Forum: Asia and Beyond co-organized with the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration and South China International Arbitration Center (Hong Kong) at the latter’s premise in Hong Kong. As part of the World Tour initiative in UNCITRAL’s Dispute Resolution in the Digital Economy project, two panels sought inputs on important DRDE topics from Chinese, Asian and global perspectives. The Secretary of UNCITRAL, Ms. Anna Joubin-Bret opened the event. Find the flyer below, which contains the programme, speaker bios and the event video at this link.

06 November 2023 to 07 November 2023

由联合国国际贸易法委员会亚洲及太平洋区域中心和中国香港特别行政区律政司联合举办的2023年第五届联合国国际贸易法委员会亚太司法高峰会,作为香港法律周2023的一部分,将于2023年11月6日至7日举行。作为一项两年一度的旗舰活动,今年的主题是“疫情后的复苏、新起点和国际贸易法与争端解决的创新”。本次峰会汇集了来自不同司法管辖区的法官、政府官员、法律从业者、学者以及其他专业人士,共同讨论当前的法律议题。峰会首日是对公众开放的司法会议,包括四个专题研讨环节,分别讨论《船舶司法出售北京公约》、贸易法委员会有关中小微企业的法规文本、贸易法委员会最新的争端解决工作以及贸易法委员会在数字经济和贸易方面的工作。首日的会议可在https://www.legalweek.hk/registration2023/?l=sc进行注册。峰会的第二天是专门为法官和司法人员而设的司法圆桌会议(只限获邀人仕参与),将讨论贸易法委员会调解框架及在争端解决和法院诉讼中的科技应用问题。

New Articles

01 March 2024

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

29 February 2024

With its ratification of the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation (the "Singapore Convention on Mediation"), Sri Lanka becomes the 14th State Party to the Convention. Read the full press release here.

08 February 2024

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