The 2016 UNCITRAL Emergence Conference on ‘Regional Perspectives on Contemporary and Future Harmonization Agenda in International Trade Law’, co-organised by the University of Macau (UM) and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law – Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific (UNCITRAL-RCAP), will be held on 13 December and 14 December in the Lotus Room of the World Trade Center Macau. This year’s event is supported by the World Trade Center Macau, the International Chamber of Commerce - International Court of Arbitration Asia, and the Asian Business Law Institute.

During the two-day conference, nearly 40 experts and scholars from Australia, Finland, Germany, Sweden, Japan, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Russia, the United States, mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macao will discuss various contemporary and emerging issues in the areas of international trade law and commercial law, including ‘Development of the Digital Economy: New Ways of Doing Business Domestically and Cross-Border’, ‘Enhancing Global Supply Chains by Reducing Legal Obstacles’, ‘Contemporary and Emerging Issues Related to Finance and Investment’, ‘Emerging Legal Issues in the Commercial Exploitation of Deep Seabed, Space and Artificial Intelligence’, and ‘Rule of Law and Access to Justice in the context of Climate Change, Finance and Investment’. The conference will be a unique event leading up to the UNCITRAL Congress on ‘Modernizing International Trade Law to Support Innovation and Sustainable Development’ to be held in July 2017 in Vienna.

All are welcome. For registrations and enquiries, please contact the Faculty of Law of UM, at 8822 4191 or visit the following website www.umac.mo/fll/umuncitral.