Diplomatic Conference on Wills, Washington, D.C., 16 – 26 October 1973: Conference documents
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Diplomatic Conference on Wills, Washington, D.C., 16 – 26 October 1973: FINAL ACT
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Diplomatic Conference on Wills, Washington, D.C., 16 – 26 October 1973: RESOLUTION
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Study XLIII – Form of the international will
U.D.P. 1972 – Etude XLIII – Doc. 34
Projet de Convention portant loi uniforme sur la forme du testament international. Texte arrêté par le Comité d’experts gouvernementaux réuni par UNIDROIT avec Rapport explicatif – Mars 1972 / Draft Convention providing a uniform law on the form of the International Will. Text established by the Committee of Governmental Experts, convened by UNIDROIT with Explanatory report – March 1972
U.P.L. 1971 – Study XLIII – Doc. 33
Committee of Governmental Experts on the Form of Wills. Report of the Secretary’s office of UNIDROIT on the session held in Rome from May 3 to 8 1971 – June 1971
U.P.L. 1971 – Study XLIII – Doc. 32
Draft Convention providing a uniform law on the form of the International Will. Text drawn up by the Committee of Governmental Experts on the Form of Wills (Rome, May 1971)
U.P.L. 1971 – Study XLIII – Doc. 31
Analysis of the remarks of Governments on the Draft Convention providing a uniform law on the form of Wills – April 1971
U.P.L. 1966 – Paper XLIII – Doc. 30
Draft Convention providing a uniform law on the form of Wills, with Explanatory Report (December 1966)
U.D.P. 1966 – Etude XLIII – Forme du testament – Doc. 30 [in French only]
Comité d’étude pour l’élaboration de dispositions uniformes sur la forme du testament. Document additionel au Rapport relatif à la Convention internationale sur la forme du testament et à la loi uniforme annexée a cette convention internationale, préparé par le Secrétariat de l’Institut – Septembre 1966
U.P.L. 1966 – Paper XLIII – Form of Wills – Doc. 29
Working Committee on the Elaboration of an International Form of Will. Report on the International Convention on the Form of Wills and on the Uniform Law annexed thereto, by Mr. René David, Professor of the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris (Translation by Professor B.A. Wortley, President of the Committee) – April 1966
U.D.P. 1965 – Etude XLIII – Forme du testament – CR/1965 [in French only] Comité d’étude pour l’élaboration de dispositions uniformes sur la forme du testament.Compte-rendu de la troisième session du Comité (Rome, les 4-8 octobre 1965) – Novembre 1965
U.D.P. 1965 – Paper XLIII – Form of Wills – Doc. 28
Working Committee on the Elaboration of Uniform Provisions concerning the Form of Wills. Draft Convention providing for a uniform law on the form of wills – October 1965
U.D.P. 1965 – Etude XLIII – Forme du testament – Doc. 27 Rev. [in French only] Remarques concernant le projet de Convention portant loi uniforme en matière de forme du testament – Octobre 1965
U.P.L. 1965 – Paper XLIII – Form of wills – Doc. 26
Preliminary draft of a uniform law on the form of wills – October 1965
U.P.L. 1965 – Paper XLIII – Form of wills – Doc. 25
Draft Convention providing for a uniform law on the form of wills
U.D.P. 1965 – Etude XLIII – Forme du testament – Doc. 24 [in French only] Avant-projet
U.D.P. 1965 – Etude XLIII – Forme du testament – Doc. 23 [in French only] Comité d’étude pour l’élaboration de dispositions uniformes sur la forme du testament. Projet de Convention portant loi uniforme en matière de forme du testament élaboré par M. le Dr. Roland Loewe, Membre du Comité, révisé par le Comité dans sa séances du 6 octobre (matin) – Octobre 1965
U.D.P. 1965 – Etudes : XLIII – Forme du testament – Doc. 22 [in French only] Avant-projet – Octobre 1965
U.D.P. 1965 – Etude XLIII – Forme du testament – Doc. 21 [in French only] Observations de M. le Prof. Pio Ciprotti sur le projet de Convention portant loi uniforme en matière de forme du testament – Septembre 1965
U.D.P. 1965 – Etude XLIII – Forme du testament – Doc. 20 [in French only] Observations de M. le Prof. Pio Ciprotti sur l’Avant-projet de dispositions uniformes sur la forme du testament (Doc. 15) – Septembre 1965
U.P.L. 1965 – Paper XLIII – Form of wills – Doc. 19
Observations on the draft uniform law on the form of wills by Prof. Yadin
U.P.L. 1965 – Paper XLIII – Form of wills – Doc. 18
Letter from Lord Chancellor’s Office to B. Wortley (15 March 1965)
U.D.P. 1965 – Etudes XLIII – Forme du testament – Doc. 17 [in French only] Commentaire de la Commission des Affaires Européennes de l’Union Nationale du Notariat Latin (U.I.N.L.) sur l’Avant-projet de l’Institut concernant la forme des testaments. Procès-verbal de la séance tenue à Paris le vendredi 28 mai 1965
U.D.P. 1965 – Etude XLIII – Forme du testament – Doc. 16 [in French only]
Comité d’étude pour l’élaboration de dispositions uniformes sur la forme du testament. Projet de Convention portant loi uniforme en matière de forme du testament élaboré par M. le Dr. Roland Loewe, Membre du Comité – Mars 1965
U.D.P. 1965 – Etude XLIII – Forme du testament – Doc. 15 [in French only] Comité d’étude pour l’élaboration de dispositions uniformes sur la forme du testament. Avant-projet de dispositions uniformes sur la forme du testament arrêtées par le Comité d’étude, lors de sa deuxième session (Rome, les 6-9 janvier 1965) – Janvier 1965
U.D.P. 1965 – Etude XLIII – Forme du testament – Doc. 14 [in French only] Comité d’étude pour l’élaboration de dispositions uniformes sur la forme du testament. Résumé des travaux de la deuxième session du Comité d’étude (Rome, les 6-9 janvier 1965) – Janvier 1965
U.D.P. 1965 – Etude XLIII – Forme du testament – Doc. 13 ter (2) [in French only] Extrait du Procès-Verbal de la séance de la Commission des Affaires Européennes de l’Union Internationale du Notariat Latin, tenue à Genève le 5 Décembre 1964
U.D.P. 1965 – Etude XLIII – Forme du testament – Doc. 13 ter (1) [in French only] Traduction de la lettre envoyée par “Der Präsident der Bundesnotarlammer” le 10 juin 1964
U.D.P. 1964 – Etude XLIII – Forme du testament – Doc. 13 bis (in French only)
Comité d’étude pour l’élaboration de dispositions uniformes sur la forme du testament. Observations de M. le Professeur P. Ciprotti sur le Doc 12 (Etude: XLIII) – Décembre 1964
U.D.P. 1964 – Etude XLIII – Forme du testament – Doc. 13 (in French only)
Comité d’étude pour l’élaboration de dispositions uniformes sur la forme du testament. Observations de MM. Les Professeurs B.A. Wortley, P. Lalive et R. David sur le Doc 12 (Etude: XLIII) – Décembre 1964
U.D.P. 1964 – Etude XLIII – Forme du testament – Doc. 12 bis
(Correspondence between J.W. Bourne and B.A. Wortley April/ May 1964 in English)
U.D.P. 1964 – Etude XLIII – Forme du testament – (document sans numéro)
Observations de M. le Doyen B.A. Wortley, Président du Comité d’étude pour l’élaboration de dispositions uniformes sur la forme du testament, sur le Doc. 12 (Etude XLIII) – Février 1964
U.D.P. 1963 – Etude XLIII – Forme du testament – Doc. 12 [in French only] Comité d’étude pour l’élaboration de dispositions uniformes sur la forme du testament. Dispositions uniformes sur la forme du testament arrêtées par le Comité d’étude lors de sa première session (Rome, les 27 septembre – 1er octobre 1963) – Janvier 1964
U.D.P. 1963 – Etude XLIII – Forme du testament – Doc. 11 [in French only] Comité d’étude pour l’élaboration de dispositions uniformes sur la forme du testament. Résumé des discussions de la première session du Comité d’étude (Rome, les 27 septembre – 1er octobre 1963)
U.D.P. 1963 – Etude XLIII – Forme du testament – Doc. 10 [in French only] Comité d’étude pour l’élaboration de dispositions uniformes sur la forme du testament. Réponses aux questions posées par les documents 7 et 8 (U.D.P. 1963 – Etudes XLIII – Forme du testament) – Septembre 1963
U.D.P. 1963 – Etude XLIII – Forme du testament – Doc. 9 [in French only] Comité d’étude pour l’élaboration de dispositions uniformes sur la forme du testament. Avant-projet de dispositions uniformes relatives au testament sous seing privé – Juillet 1963
U.D.P. 1963 – Etude XLIII – Forme du testament – Doc. 8 [in French only] Comité d’étude pour l’élaboration de dispositions uniformes sur la forme du testament. Questions d’ordre pratique pour les Membres énoncées par M. le Doyen B.A. Wortley, Président du Comité – Janvier 1963
U.D.P. 1963 – Etude XLIII – Forme du testament – Doc. 7 [in French only] Comité d’étude pour l’élaboration de dispositions uniformes sur la forme du testament. Note du Secrétariat de l’Institut – Janvier 1963
U.D.P. 1962 – Etude XLIII – Forme du testament – Doc. 6 [in French only] Etude sur la forme du testament dans le droit comparé. Le stade actuel d’unification en matière de testaments dans les pays ou des organes spéciaux sont chargés d’établir des lois uniformes – Septembre 1962
U.D.P. 1962 – Etude XLIII – Forme du testament – Doc. 5 [in French only] Etude sur la forme du testament dans le droit comparé. Enumération des différentes formes de testaments prévues par les législations de l’Espagne et du Portugal. Formes de testaments considérées individuellement par rapport à leurs éléments essentiels – Septembre 1962
U.D.P. 1962 – Etude XLIII – Forme du testament – Doc. 4 [in French only] Comité d’étude pour l’élaboration de dispositions uniformes sur la forme du testament. Compte-rendu de la séance préliminaire du Comité d’étude (Rome, le 14 avril 1962) – Avril 1962
U.D.P. 1962 – Etude XLIII – Forme du testament – Doc. 3 [in French only] Etude sur la forme du testament dans le droit comparé. Synthèse comparative des législations des pays considérés dans l’Etude accomplie par l’Institut de Droit Comparé de Belgrade (Doc. 1) – Mars 1962
U.D.P. 1961 – Etude XLIII – Forme du testament – Doc. 2 [in French only] Etude sur la forme du testament dans le droit comparé. Extrait des dispositions concernant les testaments, contenues dans la loi suédoise du 12 décembre 1958 sur les succesions (traduction en langue anglaise) – Octobre 1961
U.D.P. 1961 – Etude XLIII – Forme du testament – Doc. 1 [in French only] Etude sur la forme du testament dans le droit comparé (préparée par l’Institut de droit comparé de Belgrade) – Juillet 1961
Professor Iacopo Donati is the UNIDROIT/Bank of Italy Chair Holder and is mainly responsible for assisting in the Bank Insolvency project. He is Professor of Corporate and Insolvency Law at the University of Siena, and coordinates the research project ‘Pro.Re.Ba.’ (Proportionating rules on bank crisis prevention and management to the case of retail banks), which has received funding from the Italian Ministry of University. He has previously taught corporate law at the University of Venice ‘Ca’ Foscari’, at the University of Florence and at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’.
Professor Donati is the author of several publications on corporate law, restructuring, insolvency law, and bank crisis management. On the same topics, he has been invited as a speaker to various international and national conferences and participated in some high-impact international, European, and national research projects. Professor Donati’s education includes a Ph.D. in Corporate Law (University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’), an LLM in Corporate Governance (Stanford Law School), and a Law Degree with honors (University of Florence). He is qualified as an attorney in Italy and in the State of New York (USA).
Ms Olga Fonotova is an Associate Professor of the Faculty of Law (Department of Legal Regulation of Business) at the Russian National Research University “Higher School of Economics” in Moscow. She holds a PhD degree cum laude in private law / private international law from the Lomonosov Moscow State University (2006). Her academic and teaching interests cover private international law, international and national commercial law, with a focus on unified and non-state legal regulation of cross-border commerce.
Olga is a Russian law qualified practicing lawyer in the sphere of national and international commercial and corporate law with 20+ years’ experience in leading law firms. As part of her legal practice, she has advised multinational corporations on the setting up of multi-jurisdictional commercial relations, on the formation / termination of international joint ventures, restructuring of assets, and financing / refinancing of projects. For her work on commercial and corporate legal matters she was included in the international rating of leading lawyers “The Best Lawyers® in Russia” (2018 – 2022).
She is a UNIDROIT alumna (2011) and a Correspondent of UNIDROIT in Russia (2023 – 2025). From 2016 to 2021 Olga was a member of the ICC Commission on Commercial Law and Practice (ICC CLP) and a member of the Association of European Business (AEB) in Moscow.
Allan M. Mukuki, PhD Candidate (Navarra, Spain), LLM (Groningen, Netherlands), PGDip (KSL), LLB (Hons) (UoN), ACIArb (London), Advocate of the High Court of Kenya.
Allan Mukuki is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya as well as a Commissioner for Oaths. He is presently a PhD Candidate at the University of Navarra in Spain. He is also a holder of an LL.M in International Law and the Law of International Organizations, from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He has an LL. B (Hons) from the University of Nairobi, he is a Member of the Cha
rtered Institute of Arbitrators (London). He further holds a post-graduate diploma in law from the Kenya School of Law. Allan is also a scholar from the Hague Academy of International Law.
Some of his many roles in the legal profession include Director of International Partnerships; a Doctoral Fellow; member of the Management Committee and moot court coordinator, all for Strathmore Law School; Research Fellow for the African Region (Kenya), for the European Research Council Grant Project on the interpretation of customary international law; and Acting Director for the Strathmore Institute of Advanced Studies in International Criminal Justice (SIASIC)
Allan has previously worked at A.F Gross Advocate; in various legal institutes; in governmental agencies and in the Judiciary of Kenya. He was also a Legal researcher in the Office of the Solicitor General, Kenya, for the Maritime Delimitation in the Indian Ocean (Somalia v. Kenya), a case that was before the International Court of Justice. His main areas of specialization include Public International Law, The Law of International Organizations, International Humanitarian Law, International and Regional (EAC) Refugee Law and Legal Policy Development.
Further, Allan has been involved in various national and international legal consultancies and projects; he has published several peer reviewed legal articles, a legal monograph and presented several legal papers in international conferences around the world. He has also developed several policy documents for Strathmore University as well as (currently operational) manuals and laws for the operation of the Judiciary as well as governmental agencies and regional agencies such as IGAD.
ANDREA SANTACOLOMA
Director
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Andrea Santacoloma is a Panamanian lawyer that focuses her practice on international commercial arbitration.
Prior to joining Adell & Merizalde, Andrea was the Deputy Director for Latin America of the ICC International Court of Arbitration for 5 years. In this role, she gained vast experience in the internal functioning of the ICC’s Secretariat and Court and saw first-hand the work of hundreds of arbitrators and ICC Court Members in the region. Andrea was also in charge of identifying new opportunities and potential users of the ICC Dispute Resolution Services (ICC DRS) in Latin America, in liaison with the ICC National Committees and other institutions in the region. She also worked as a lawyer advising local and international clients on business and corporate law and M&A in 3 Panamanian law firms.
She is currently the Executive Director of the Latin American Arbitration Association (ALARB), one of Latin America’s leading associations gathering practitioners and arbitrators, which seeks to encourage the use of arbitration and foster initiatives for the development of international arbitration in the region.
In July 2022, the G
overning Council of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) appointed Andrea as a Correspondent for Latin America. Namely, Andrea was appointed as a Correspondent for the Republic of Panama for the period 2022-2025.
EDUCATION
• American University Washington College of Law, LL.M. in International Arbitration and Business Law
• International Training Centre of the International Labor Organization (ILO) jointly with the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Università degli Studi di Torino, and University Institute of European Studies (IUSE), LL.M. in International Trade Law & Dispute Resolution
• Universidad Católica Santa María La Antigua, LL.M. in Corporate Law
• Universidad Católica Santa María La Antigua, Degree in Law and Political Science
• Centro de Estudios Regionales de Panamá, Diploma in Entrepreneurship and Management of Small and Medium Enterprises
Bar admissions
Republic of Panama
Languages
Spanish, English, Italian (intermediate)
asantacoloma@adellmerizalde.com
+507 370 4155
NAME: PROF. DR. HERNANY VEYTIA (LL.M. YALE)
AFFILIATION DIRECTOR BNM-CAMBRIDGE STUDY CENTRE ON SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENTS
PRESENTATION
Professor of law, international strategic consultant, arbitrator, and entrepreneur. Hernany Veytia is very comfortable with complex, high-profile and confidential transactions. Her consulting experience as partner of BNM and Deloitte enables her to focus on and add value to the sustainable and commercial aspects of each deal. Frequently she leads transdisciplinary teams to deliver fact findings and legal opinions, feasibility studies and turn-key projects for banks, governments, international organisations, and corporations willing to expand or withdraw operations in other jurisdictions.
In Prof Veytia’s experience UNIDROIT works have been very useful to understand not only the foreign law, but also to recognise the cultural, political, and economic factors at play, and the way national and international regulators operate-and cooperate. In her opinion, UNIDROIT instruments have been of utmost importance for the legal strategies she designed for:
• DANPREIT (Dispute Analytics Platform for Real Estate Investment Trusts in the Agriculture, Construction and Mining industries).
• TELEKAIROS, innovative methodology that incorporates the use of space assets.
• Corporate art collections, restitutions, including donations, sponsorships, and loans to museums.
• Contracts used by a German waterworks company willing to grow in all the Caribbean and Central American countries.
• Liquidation of commercial and investment banks
• IPOs and reverse mergers for companies in the extraction industries (Canadian stock exchange), ILS listed in Bermuda and African sovereign funds listed in London.
• Franchising and other commercial contracts in the food & drinks, health, aero-space, and automotive industries.
In the last three decades Prof. Veytia has lived, and successfully completed investments and disinvestments in more than forty countries in the five Continents. She is frequently appointed as arbitrator and invited as speaker on risk transfers at international industry conferences in fields of her expertise: energy (both renewable and traditional), artificial intelligence, infrastructure, mining, real estate, agriculture, rail, space, automotive, and franchising. She sits in the board of directors of companies in Europe including the United Kingdom.
Anna Veneziano is the Deputy Secretary General of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT). She is a Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Teramo, Italy, where she was formerly the Director of the Department of Private Law. She has also formerly been a tenured Professor of European Property Law at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Her education includes a Law Degree with honours from the University of Rome La Sapienza, an LL.M degree from the Yale Law School funded by a Fulbright scholarship, and a PhD degree from the University of Florence (Italy).
Her main research and publication areas are on secured transactions as well as international, comparative, and European contract and sales law. Before joining UNIDROIT she was a member of the Italian delegation with respect to the Cape Town Convention on International Interests on Mobile Equipment and its Aircraft Protocol as well as its Space Protocol. She was also a member of the Study Group on a European Civil Code and of the Compilation and Redaction Group on a Draft Common Frame of Reference on European Private Law (DCFR), and of the restricted Expert Group set up by the European Commission on a common European law on sales.
P
rofessor Ignacio Tirado was appointed Secretary-General by the Governing Council at its 97th session, and officially took office on 27 August 2018. A national of Spain, Professor Tirado (Commercial, Corporate and Insolvency Law, Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, Spain) holds a PhD from the Universities of Bologna and Autónoma de Madrid and an LLM from the University of London. Professor Tirado has been a Senior Legal Consultant at the World Bank’s Legal Vice-Presidency and Financial Sector Practice for more than nine years, having also consulted for the IMF on insolvency related matters as well as for the Asian Development Bank on commercial legal reform.
Amongst other accolades to his professional experience, Professor Tirado is a founding member of the European Banking Institute, an International Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and has been Director and Academic Co-Chair of the International Insolvency Institute.
A Swedish national, Ms Lena Peters grew up in Italy where she attended an English school. In 1978 she took her Juris Kandidatexamen at Stockholm University followed by a Master of Laws from King’s College, London (1979). Since 1985 she has been with UNIDROIT, first as Research Officer, lastly as Principal Legal Officer, her main duties being Secretary to the Working Group for the Preparation of Principles of International Commercial Contracts, Secretary to the Study Group on Franchising, Secretary to the Committee of Governmental Experts on Franchising.She also collaborated on the project for the preparation of the ELI-Unidroit Model European Rules of Civil Procedure. She is currently Managing Editor of the Uniform Law Review and responsible for publications at UNIDROIT.
Marina Schneider is Principal Legal Officer and Treaty Depositary at UNIDROIT. She studied law at the University of Strasbourg (France) and Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne. She joined the UNIDROIT in 1987 and was involved in the elaboration and French versions of most UNIDROIT instruments since. She is in charge of the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects and of the UNESCO-UNIDROIT Model Provisions on State Ownership of Undiscovered Cultural Objects. She is the author of the Explanatory Report of the 1995 Convention and many articles on the Convention and other international instruments in the field. Ms Schneider is also responsible for the project on private collections and for the UNIDROIT Convention Academic Project (UCAP). She is member of the Board of the International Society for Research on Art and Cultural Heritage Law (ISCHAL).
Professor of Commercial Law, Carlos III University of Madrid. Currently, Sir Roy Goode Scholar at UNIDROIT, Rome, 2021-2022. Chair of Excellence 2017-2018 at University of Oxford (Uc3m- Santander Program), affiliated to Harris Manchester College. Previously Distinguished Visiting Professor and fellow of a number of Academic Institutions. Arbitrator of Madrid Court of Arbitration. Member of ELI (European Law Institute) Council and Executive Committee. Member of the Expert Group of the European Commission on Liability and New Technologies and member of the Expert Group of the European Observatory of Platform Economy; the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law; the expert group of the Inclusive Global Legal Innovation Platform for Online Dispute Resolution – UNCITRAL and Hong Kong Department of Justice. Expert of the UNIDROIT Study Group on the MAC Protocol of the Cape Town Convention on International Interests. Delegate of Spain to UNIDROIT for the adoption of the Protocol, delegate of Spain in Working Group VI of UNCITRAL on secured transactions and in Working Group IV on Electronic Commerce. Member of UNIDROIT Working Groups on Enforcement and Warehouse Receipts.
William Brydie-Watson is an Australian lawyer who specialises in secured transactions law and private international law. Before joining UNIDROIT, William was a government lawyer in the Private International Law and International Arbitration section of the Australian Attorney-General’s Department, where he worked primarily on treaty negotiation and the implementation of private international law treaties in Australia. At UNIDROIT, he is primarily responsible for the implementation of the Mining, Agriculture and Construction (MAC Protocol) to the 2001 Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the development of a Model Law on Factoring. William also serves as UNIDROIT’s liaison with the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum and as manager of the Institute’s Scholarship and Internship Programme. Admitted to practice in New South Wales and the High Court of Australia, he has a Bachelor of Arts (honours), a Bachelor of Laws and a Master of Laws from the Australian National University. William also lectures on International Secured Transactions Law at the Eotvos Lorand Faculty of Law in Budapest.
