On 14 – 15 October 2024, the Centro de Estudios de Derecho, Economía y Política (CEDEP) organised a two-day Latin American Congress to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the UNIDROIT Principles on International Commercial Contracts. The event was hosted at the premises of the Central 
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On 29 October 2024, the 14th Jurist Conference in Seoul, organised by the Korean Society of Law, sponsored by the Supreme Court, the Constitutional Court, the Ministry of Justice, the Korean Bar Association, and the Korean Law Professors Association, and held at the Korea University, 
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On 17 October 2024, UNIDROIT’s Deputy Secretary-General Anna Veneziano was invited to participate in a roundtable celebrating the authorised publication of the Italian translation of the UNCITRAL-HCCH-UNIDROIT “Tripartite” Legal Guide to Uniform Instruments in the Area of International Commercial Contracts, with a Focus on Sales, together 
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On 8 of October 2024, the Externado University of Colombia and University of Sabana organized a celebratory seminar to mark the 30th Anniversary of the Unidroit Principles of International Commercial Contracts, with the cooperation of the Chamber of Commerce of Colombia, which hosted the event. The 
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On 11 October, UNIDROIT organised a Workshop on the Nordic Approach to the Contract/Tort Divide, hosted by the UNIDROIT Nordic Law Centre (UNIDROIT Centre for Nordic Studies and Transnational Private Law – NLC). The Workshop was held in a hybrid format and provided a comparative 
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 We are pleased to announce the winners of the Essay Competition on 30 Years of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (UPICC), supported by the International Law Institute (ILI) and facilitated by the UNIDROIT Foundation:   First Place: Anna Fonseca – The choice for 
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On 7 October 2024, Secretary-General Ignacio Tirado met with the Vice Minister of Multilateral Affairs of Colombia, Kandya Obezo Casseres, at San Carlos Palace in Bogotà, as well as representatives from the Directorate of Economic, Social and Environmental Affairs and the Directorate of Cultural Affairs 
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On 26 and 27 September 2024, UNIDROIT Legal Officer Ms Myrte Thijssen delivered a keynote speech at the Third Forum on Rule of Law in Global Digital Trade, held in Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China. The event was co-organised by the Wuhan University Academy of 
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On 21 and 22 August 2024,  UNIDROIT participated in the second annual session of the APEC Economic Committee in Lima, Peru. UNIDROIT has held guest organisation status with the APEC Economic Committee since 2017. During the Economic Committee session, UNIDROIT Senior Legal Officer William Brydie-Watson 
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On 6-7 June 2024, the German-Greek Lawyers’ Association (DGJV), the University of Hamburg, the Chamber of Commerce of Hamburg and the Bucerius Law School, in cooperation with UNIDROIT, the Union International des Avocats (UIA) and the Inter-Pacific Bar Association, joined forces in a conference to 
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