The judge of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation Ricardo Lorenzetti was again elected to join the group of experts of the Board of Directors of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT).
Consequently, the organization will once again have an Argentine representative on its governing body, as happened between 2009 and 2013, when Lorenzetti was also part of that expert council.
UNIDROIT is an intergovernmental organization based in Rome and its purpose is the harmonization of the national laws of the different member states. It was created in 1926 as an auxiliary organ of the League of Nations and reestablished in 1940, after its disappearance, on the basis of a multilateral agreement.
The UNIDROIT Board of Directors, made up of internationally recognized jurists, carries out the Institute’s main objective: the establishment of uniform legislation in the field of private law.
In the past, it carried out investigations that culminated in instruments such as Formation of Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (1964, The Hague), Uniform Law on the International Sale of Goods (1964, The Hague), International Convention on Travel Contracts ( 1970, Brussels), UNIDROIT Convention on International Financial Leasing (1988, Ottawa), UNIDROIT Convention on International Factoring (1988, Ottawa) and UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Property (1995, Rome).
Lorenzetti was awarded with this new distinction this Thursday, in Rome, at the 77th UNIDROIT General Assembly.
Together with Lorenzetti, the Board of Directors (period 2019-2023) will also be integrated by Stefania Bariatti (Italy), Hans-Georg Bollweg (Germany), Baiba Broka (Latvia), Yusuf Çalişkan (Turkey), Alfonso Luis Calvo Caravaca (Spain), Eugenia G. Dacoronia (Greece), Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson (France), Eesa Allie Fredericks (South Africa), Henry D. Gabriel (United States), Arthur S. Hartkamp (Netherlands), Kim In-Ho (South Korea), Hideki Kanda (Japan), Patrick Kilgarriff (United Kingdom), Alexander S. Komarov (Russia), Wojciech W. Kowalski (Poland), Antti T. Leinonen (Finland – also representing Denmark, Norway and Sweden), Niklaus D. Meier (Switzerland), Attila Menyhárd (Hungary), José Antonio Moreno Rodríguez (Paraguay), Monika Pauknerová (Czech Republic), Kathryn Sabo (Canada), Jorge Sánchez Cordero (Mexico), Luc Schuermans (Belgium), Shi Jingxia (China) and Carmen Tamara Ungureanu (Romania).
