The 2015 UNCITRAL (United Nations Commission on International Trade Law) Emergence Conference on ‘Harmonising Trade Law to Enable Private Sector Regional Development’, co-organised by the University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Law (FLL) and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law – Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific (UNCITRAL-RCAP), will be held at UM on 30 November.
The 2015 UNCITRAL Emergence Conference will be a unique event in the history of the UNCITRAL. The proposed theme of the conference is designed to take stock of contemporary and emerging international developments in the harmonisation and unification of commercial laws and to contemplate the implications for regional business environment. The conference will be focused on issues related to contemporary legal developments in international trade and commercial law and the mandate of the UNCITRAL, including those pertaining to the development of the private sector.
Experts and scholars from around the world, including Australia, the United States, Sweden, Japan, India, Singapore, mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao, will attend the conference and discuss a wide range of topics, including ‘Micro-, Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises (MSMEs)’, ‘The Future of International Commercial Arbitration’, ‘E-Commerce’, ‘Cross-Border Insolvency’, and ‘International Contract Law’.
This will be the second conference co-organised by the FLL and the UNCITRAL-RCAP, following the successful joint conference co-organised with the UNCITRAL-RCAP and the Comité Maritime International (CMI) Asia Office in October 2014.
The conference will be held in Room E4-G062, Anthony Lau Building, starting at 9:00am. All are welcome. For enquiries, please call 88224191 or visit www.umac.mo/fll/umuncitral.
Source: Faculty of Law
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