To celebrate its fortieth annual session, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) is organizing the Congress "Modern Law for Global Commerce". The Congress will provide an opportunity to review the working methods and achievements of UNCITRAL, as well as related work of other organizations active in the field of international trade law, assess ongoing- work and consider and evaluate topics for future work programmes.
Date and venue: Vienna International Centre, 9-12 July 2007
Audience: a broad international audience that will include delegates of member and observer States and representatives of international governmental and non-governmental organizations participating at the fortieth session of UNCITRAL, the Legal Counsel of the United Nations, heads of several international organizations involved in the formulation of commercial law, such as UNIDROIT and the Hague Conference on Private International Law, senior managers from multilateral and regional financial institutions, representatives of non-governmental organizations active in the field of commercial law, academics, practitioners and representatives from the public and the private sectors.
Programme: The congress will cover a wide range of forward-looking topics, both from an institutional and a substantive perspective, such as:
Speakers from all regions and legal systems will report on practical aspects and recent developments relating to areas where uniform law instruments already exists, as well as new areas in need of harmonization. Open floor sessions will allow for questions and comments by Congress participants.
Language and Proceedings: As part of the fortieth session of UNCITRAL, the Congress will be held in all official languages of the United Nations (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish), and its proceedings will be published by UNCITRAL.
Request for admission:
Registration closed.
Participants are responsible for making their own travel arrangements, including hotel reservation in Vienna, and for obtaining an entry visa for Austria, where required. Please note that the United Nations is not in a position to assist in any of these matters.
Contact: e-mail ( congress@uncitral.org) or fax (+43-1 2606076935).