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UNCITRAL-UM Asia-Pacific Conference on trade development via harmonisation of commercial law to open at UM

The UNCITRAL-UM Asia-Pacific Fall Conference on Trade Development through the Harmonization of Commercial Law, co-hosted by the University of Macau’s (UM) Faculty of Law, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law – Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific (UNCITRAL-RCAP), and the Comite Maritime International (CMI), will be held on 17 and 18 October in the auditorium of the UM Wu Yee Sun Library. Approximately 40 experts and scholars from around the world will attend the conference, including Australia, Brazil, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, the United States, mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macao.

Participants will discuss a wide range of issues concerning contemporary legal developments in international trade and commercial law, with focus on such topics as “International Commercial Arbitration and Conciliation”, “Investor-State Dispute Settlement and UNCITRAL Texts on Transparency”, “International Sale of Goods”, “International Transport of Goods and Rotterdam Rules”, and “Cross-Border Insolvency and E-Commerce Law”.

The experts and scholars come from leading institutions around the world, including Comite Maritime International’s office in Asia, the University of Tokyo (Japan), the City University of Hong Kong, the UNCITRAL National Coordination Committee for Australia, the Supreme Court of Singapore, UM’s Faculty of Law, Ewha Womans University (South Korea), the Secretariat of the UNCITRAL, the University of Hong Kong, Curtin University (Australia), the Philippine Department of Justice, The Hague Conference on Private International Law Asia-Pacific Office, the Hengqin International Arbitration Court (China), the Australasian Dispute Resolution Centre (Australia), the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the University of Canberra (Australia), the School of Transnational Law of Peking University (China), Jinan University (China), Beijing Normal University (China), the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), and major legal institutions in Macao.

All are welcome. For enquiries, please call 8822 4765 or email to lilizhuang@um.edu.mo.


Should you have any inquiries about the information, please feel free to contact the Information Executives Ms.Lei or Ms Fok at85388228004 or  prs.media@um.edu.mo or visit UM webpage www.umac.mo.

 

 

14/10/2014