UNCITRAL Events and News

At its fifty-eighth session, in 2025, the Commission endorsed the proposal to hold a colloquium to discuss possible updates to the Guide to Enactment and Interpretation of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency  (A/80/17, paras. 250, 256 and 347). 
 
The colloquium will take place on 11-12 December 2025, in the Vienna International Centre, after the sixty-seventh session of Working Group V. A report of the colloquium will be submitted to the Commission for consideration at its fifty-ninth session.

Jointly organised by UNCITRAL RCAP and the Department of Justice of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the 6th UNCITRAL Asia Pacific Judicial Summit will take place from 1 to 2 December 2025. A biennial flagship event, this year’s theme is “The Future is Now: Legally Enabling Digitalization of International Trade.” The Summit brings together senior members of the judiciary, legal professionals, policymakers and international experts in the region to discuss the role of the judiciary in promoting progressive harmonization of international commercial law, particularly through uniform interpretation and application of UNCITRAL legal instruments. Further information available at: https://uncitral.un.org/en/SixthJudicialSummit2025 

Co-hosted by UNCITRAL, KMOJ, KCAB INTERNATIONAL, and ICC Dispute Resolution Services, this year’s Conference will focus on the theme “Unveiling Excellence in Arbitration.” Expert discussions on critical topics, including the user experience in arbitration, innovation driven by arbitral tribunals, and a forward-looking debate on the necessity of an appellate system, will be featured.
For registration and programme details please visit: https://adrconference.com/ 
 

At its upcoming fifty-eighth session, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) is expected to finalize a draft convention on negotiable cargo documents. The draft convention establishes negotiable cargo documents as new negotiable documents of title representing goods in transit across all modes of transport, which could be used to enhance flexibility in trade, bridge the trade finance gap and support the digital transformation of global trade. Once finalized, the draft convention will be submitted to the United Nations General Assembly for adoption in late 2025. To raise awareness of the draft convention, the UNCITRAL secretariat is organizing a conference entitled “Shaping the Future: The Impact of Negotiable Cargo Documents on Trade Finance, Regional Connectivity and Digital Evolution”, in partnership with the International Trade Centre (ITC), the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT), and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).