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IBA Annual Conference Scholarships

Each year the International Bar Association (IBA), the world's largest international organisation of law societies, bar associations and individual lawyers engaged in transnational law, holds an Annual Conference, which attracts the participation of some 6000 lawyers from more than 100 jurisdictions. The IBA's Legal Practice Division (LPD), Section of Public and Professional Interest Division (SPPI) present informative and engaging sessions covering current topics of significance to lawyers throughout the world.

IBA Annual Conference Mexico 2024

Applications for the 2024 Annual Conference Scholarship programme have now opened.
If you have any questions, please contact divisions@int-bar.org

Essay application form Project proposal application form
Applications must be received before the deadline of midnight British Summer Time (BST) on
Tuesday, 30 April 2024

Young Lawyer Scholarships

The Annual Conference working sessions are complemented by a full social programme which provides the opportunity for delegates to meet, establish and maintain business contacts and friendships with peers of the legal profession worldwide.

Scholarships are awarded to young lawyers who wish to participate at the Annual Conference, but may find it financially difficult to do so.

These Scholarship opportunities are available to those who meet the following criteria:

  • 'Young Lawyer’ is defined as any lawyer up to and including the age of 35 at the time of the Conference.
  • Applicants must either be:
    • a fully qualified lawyer who is licensed/registered to practice as a lawyer with the relevant professional regulatory body; or
    • undertaking the qualification process (education and/or vocational) to pass the bar (or the equivalent qualification in the relevant jurisdiction) to become fully qualified, providing they hold a temporary or permanent licence to practice as a trainee, or are undertaking a training scheme that is recognised by the professional regulatory body.
  • IBA membership is not a requirement to submit application
  • Employees of the IBA, officers of any IBA entity and relatives of the above are excluded from the competition.
  • Previous winners of any LPD/SPPI Conference Scholarships are also excluded from the competition. All other applicants from previous years may reapply.
  • Each participant may apply for one Scholarship in a calendar year.

*Select Scholarships may have additional criteria.

The Annual Conference Scholarship award includes the following:

  • waived registration for the IBA Annual Conference;
  • accommodation while attending the conference;
  • contribution towards travel costs to attend the conference;
  • two years' free membership of the IBA; and
  • a waiver of either the following years' IBA Annual Conference registration fee or a waived registration fee to attend a speciality conference organised by the IBA.

2024 Annual Conference Scholarship Listing

1) Academic and Professional Development Committee

Essay topic: Smart or dishonest? Plagiarism, and the use of automatic essay-writing technologies and services, are an increasing problem for universities and other educators training students for the legal profession.​​​​​

  • Essay Submission
  • The deadline is midnight British Summer Time (BST) on Tuesday, 30 April 2024.

2) Access to Justice and Legal Aid Committee

It is proposed that the 2024 IBA Access to Justice and Legal Aid scholarship be assessed through a presentation or essay on the Mexico Annual Conference Access to Justice session topic ‘AI and Access to justice’.

The following points should be discussed:

  • a) Impact of AI on the delivery and quality of judgments;
  • b) Challenges of Bias in AI regarding fairness, and ethical considerations in AI development for the legal sector;
  • c) Non-human justice and the capacity of AI systems, devoid of human emotion, to truly deliver justice;
  • d) Potential barriers to AI-driven legal services and strategies to address these barriers; and
  • e) Challenges of the use of AI for the legal profession, addressing the potential erosion of the human expertise.

Applicants can choose one of the following formats:

  1. A TED Talk-style presentation of no more than 10 minutes length and, while slides can be used, over reliance on text heavy slides is to be discouraged. They should also be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 250 words; OR
  2. An essay of no more than 2500 words.

Please submit the presentations or essays through the official submission links, and also email them to louise.grosos@gmail.com by Tuesday 30 April 2024.

  • Essay Submission
  • The deadline is midnight British Summer Time (BST) on Tuesday, 30 April 2024.

African Regional Forum

Essay topic: The challenges of cross border legal practice on the African continent. A case of harmonising training standards, ethics and practice of the profession? What is the way forward for Africa and the world?

  • Essay Submission
  • The deadline is midnight British Summer Time (BST) on Tuesday, 30 April 2024.

Antitrust Section

Essay topic: A period of intense debate (at least in Europe) on competition law and sustainability has yielded some helpful antitrust agency guidance. There is now a transition to concrete action in certain jurisdictions –in terms of actual competitor environmental collaboration being waved through by agencies. At the same time, we also see instances globally of high-profile enforcement against agreements between competitors with the stated aim of building a sustainable future. Companies and their advisors point out that the lack of an aligned approach among agencies around the world makes implementing agreements to tackle climate change and other sustainability concerns for the good of the planet too risky. How can we achieve proactive global consensus among antitrust agencies on what the approach of competition law should be to sustainability agreements?

  • Essay Submission
  • The deadline is midnight British Summer Time (BST) on Tuesday, 30 April 2024.

Asia Pacific Regional Forum

Essay topic: Five years on: The influence and significance of the CPTPP on trade and investment amid global development.

  • Essay Submission
  • The deadline is midnight British Summer Time (BST) on Tuesday, 30 April 2024.

Corporate Law Section

Includes Business Human Rights Committee, Closely Held Companies Committee and Corporate and M&A Law Committee

Please propose an outline for a project to be implemented for the members of the corporate committees about how to implement tools of legal-tech in their practices. The focus areas of the implementation would be one or more of the following areas: M&A transaction, nearshoring or green financing.

  • Project Proposal
  • The deadline is midnight British Summer Time (BST) on Tuesday, 30 April 2024.

Criminal Law Section

Includes Anti-Corruption Committee, Business Crime Committee and Criminal Law Committee

Essay topic: Discussion to effectively combat corruption, law enforcement authorities can leverage an array of different laws to complement traditional anti-corruption laws.

  • Essay Submission
  • The deadline is midnight British Summer Time (BST) on Tuesday, 30 April 2024.

Dispute Resolution Section

Includes Arbitration Committee, Class Actions Committee, Litigation Committee, Mediation Committee and Negligence and Damages Committee

Essay topic: Does AI (Artificial Intelligence) pose a threat or a benefit to dispute resolution going forward?

  • Essay Submission
  • The deadline is midnight British Summer Time (BST) on Tuesday, 30 April 2024.

European Regional Forum

Essay topic: Next generation's comments and suggestions on current and expected challenges for the legal sector regarding AI developments.

  • Essay Submission
  • The deadline is midnight British Summer Time (BST) on Tuesday, 30 April 2024.

Human Rights Law Committee

Essay topic: Should companies be required to conduct Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) in the downstream part of their value chain, which includes the production, sale/licensing, and distribution of goods and services? If so, what are the expectations outlined in the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), and how should companies implement downstream HRDD in line with these expectations?

Procedural requirements:

  • Must discuss the UNGPs and Mandating Downstream Human Rights Due Diligence, 13 September 2022, and any other applicable human rights instruments.
  • Essay Submission
  • The deadline is midnight British Summer Time (BST) on Tuesday, 30 April 2024.

Insolvency Section

Essay topic: Please discuss an interesting insolvency case involving stakeholders in a development project in financial distress and include examples of best practices to protect your client.

  • Essay Submission
  • The deadline is midnight British Summer Time (BST) on Tuesday, 30 April 2024.

Intellectual Property, Communications and Technology Section

Essay topic: How will Generative AI be used by IP, Communications and Technology lawyers in the coming decade? Elaborate on risks, opportunities and challenges?

  • Essay Submission
  • The deadline is midnight British Summer Time (BST) on Tuesday, 30 April 2024.

International Commerce, Trade, Franchising and Product Law Section

Essay topic: The topic for the International Commerce, Trade, Franchising and Product Law Section’s scholarship will be based the session’s they will present at the upcoming annual conference. Below are the session title and description. Please base you essay on the session below.

Lifecycle of a green supply chain: from ESG-related contractual provisions to product claims and environmental litigation

The session focuses on the holistic view of the supply chain of “green “products, in particular energy, but also mechanical, chemical and electronical products. It will be addressed how and to what extent certain model clauses in contracts in the supply chain can provide a protection against liability risks. It will be further discussed how current risk of environmental litigation can be mitigated.

  • Essay Submission
  • The deadline is midnight British Summer Time (BST) on Tuesday, 30 April 2024.

Latin American Regional Forum

Project proposal: Proposals to enhance the Rule of Law in Latin America to foster foreign investment.

  • Project Proposal
  • The deadline is midnight British Summer Time (BST) on Tuesday, 30 April 2024.

Healthcare and Life Sciences Committee

Essay topic: ‘Patient Access Programs/Patient Assistance Programs: Legal benefits and challenges for patients’

Synopsis: The focus of patient support programs is to address the problems that patients experience following a diagnosis or prescription from a doctor, so that patient outcomes can be optimised. New approaches to services "beyond the pill" of a drug, medical device or treatment administered to a patient are being used to achieve effective and safe outcomes for the patient. It is still early days, and much progress remains to be made in providing tailored programs to meet the unmet needs of patients, healthcare professionals (HCPs) and carers. Improving the compliant involvement of HCPs and patients in the clinical development process for future treatments would be a key objective.

The following points should be discussed:

  • Patient Access Programs/Patient Assistance Programs (definition, key principles of regulatory framework, current practice)
  • Transparency & Accountability issues
  • Personal Data Processing issues (local & international level)
  • Bioethical issues
  • Collection of Real-World Data
  • Best Practices

The Committee reserves the right not to award a scholarship if, in their opinion, the above points have not been successfully analysed.

  • Essay Submission
  • The deadline is midnight British Summer Time (BST) on Tuesday, 30 April 2024.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI+) Law Committee

Essay topics:

The topic for the LGBTQI+’s scholarship will be based on the session’s they will present at the upcoming annual conference. Below are the session titles and descriptions. Please base you essay on one of the sessions below.

The Pink Peso: How LGBTQI+ inclusion drives productivity and brings in business

The panel session will cover two areas: - the productivity gains that can be made in law firms by encouraging LGBTQI+ lawyers to bring their "whole selves" to work; and - the increasing requirements from corporate clients to show LGBTQI+ diversity in law firm pitches and client coverage teams.

Sexual minorities, refugees, and migration

The panel session will focus on the difficulties faced by same-sex families in establishing refugee status and migration.

  • Essay Submission
  • The deadline is midnight British Summer Time (BST) on Tuesday, 30 April 2024.

North American Regional Forum

The topic for the North American Regional Forum’s scholarship will be based on the session’s they will present at the upcoming annual conference. Below are the session titles and descriptions. Please base you essay on one of the sessions below.

Essay topics:

Challenges to integration: can North-America become like the EU

This session will explore how integration arising from NAFTA/USCMA and what can we expect in the future.

Challenges arising from Immigration

This session will explore the challenges arising from immigration into the United States.

Prospects of Nearshoring: from globalization to regionalization

This session will explore several aspects of nearshoring.

  • Essay Submission
  • The deadline is midnight British Summer Time (BST) on Tuesday, 30 April 2024.

Poverty and Social Development Committee

Essay topic: Anti-SLAPP is, on its own terms, seeks to control strategic litigation against Public Interest (SLAPP)

Civil Society Groups have used litigation to further social justice and in furtherance of social justice will at times criticize powerful interests in Society. These powerful interests have used SLAPPs as a method of silencing marginalized groups which have brought litigation to further environmental justice and social justice. Many jurisdictions have enacted Anti-SLAPP legislation to prevent the legal system from being used to quell legitimate social protest. This topic is designed to elicit a discussion about the injustice of using SLAPPs to prevent marginalized social groups from expressing their grievances. Essentially SLAPPs are an abuse of the judicial system and the rule of law is furthered by preventing the legal system from being used by the powerful against the expression of the voices for legitimate legal concerns.

  • Essay Submission
  • The deadline is midnight British Summer Time (BST) on Tuesday, 30 April 2024.

Private Client Tax Committee

Essay topic: Planning for cross-border real-estate issues: Matters of relevance for clients planning a real estate investment in your jurisdiction. From obtaining ownership, financing, tax issues, inheritance and matrimonial matters to profits when re-selling.

  • Essay Submission
  • The deadline is midnight British Summer Time (BST) on Tuesday, 30 April 2024.

Pro Bono Committee

Essay topics (choose one topic to be submitted):

  • Trending Topics in Pro Bono projects in Latin America
  • Measuring the impact of Pro Bono
  • Essay Submission
  • The deadline is midnight British Summer Time (BST) on Tuesday, 30 April 2024.

Professional Ethics Committee & Alternative and New Law Business Structures Committee

Project proposal: The project proposal must consist of an outline of a potential project for the Committee to undertake, based on research of either an existing or completed activity that the Committee has undertaken, or the developments across the world that has or is likely to have an impact on the legal profession from an ethical standpoint;

  • Project Proposal
  • The deadline is midnight British Summer Time (BST) on Tuesday, 30 April 2024.

Real Estate Section

Essay topic: The role of technology on the legal and regulatory aspects of international real estate transactions

  • Essay Submission
  • The deadline is midnight British Summer Time (BST) on Tuesday, 30 April 2024.

Rule of Law Forum

Applicants will be asked to prepare a concept for a webinar or workshop in the area of: Equality Before the Law. This response should include an outline to a potential project that the Rule of Law Committee could run virtually using volunteers. The project should also be one that all bar and law societies can contribute to regardless of their size or resources. This submission should not exceed 750 words.

  • Project Proposal
  • The deadline is midnight British Summer Time (BST) on Tuesday, 30 April 2024.

Senior Lawyers’ Committee

Essay topic:

  1. How to retain the value of retiring partners?
  2. All firms have partners that make enormous contributions to their firms. (If not, they should not be partners!) What happens when these partners retire? Different firms have different approaches. Many large firms adopt the “cliff” approach – you are no longer a partner so goodbye. At the other extreme some firms allow partners to linger for ever – but to what avail?
  • Essay Submission
  • The deadline is midnight British Summer Time (BST) on Tuesday, 30 April 2024.

Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law (SEERIL)

Energy security in times of energy transition

The SEERIL scholarship has its own terms and conditions and scholarship outline linked on the SEERIL scholarship page.

Taxes Committee

The topic for the Taxes Committee’s scholarship will be based on the session’s they will present at the upcoming annual conference. Below are the session titles and descriptions. Please base you essay on one of the sessions below.

Essay topics: (choose one topic to be submitted)

  • Business Without Borders: Managing the Impacts of Corporate and C-Suite Mobility 
    • Executives and employees often need to cross borders to conduct business in our increasingly globalized marketplace, a trend that has increased significantly in view of changing attitudes toward remote and mobile work since the onset of COVID-19. Several countries issued temporary guidance relaxing standards concerning corporate residence, permanent establishment, or other nexus for tax purposes. Now that travel has reopened again, though, companies must grapple with the tax consequences posed by increased mobility among their personnel—particularly high-level executives. In your essay, describe how you would advise a foreign company on (A) the tax implications for the company of having its executives or personnel work in your jurisdiction and (B) an optimal strategy mitigate undesired tax consequences or risks. The essay should include a description of your jurisdiction’s current rules on when the presence of executives of a foreign company triggers tax consequences in such jurisdiction (e.g., does the foreign company become subject to corporate income tax, employment tax, etc.).
  • TOPIC 2: Treat-Ease: not if GAARs and PPT Can Help It 
    • The basic goal of tax treaties is to mitigate double taxation to facilitate cross-border business and investment activity. But as taxpayers’ organizational structures and transactions have become more complex—for nontax and/or tax reasons—tax authorities must consider whether certain treaty concepts still work or need to evolve to address new challenges. Tax authorities are increasingly wary of tax planning that they see as overly aggressive treaty-shopping or even treaty abuse. In your essay, (A) describe your jurisdiction’s approach to combat treaty-shopping in its own bilateral tax treaties (e.g., specific or general anti-avoidance rules, limitation on benefits, etc.), (B) discuss whether and why your jurisdiction has implemented (or should implement) the treaty-shopping standards in Action 6 of the OECD’s BEPS framework, and (C) if applicable, how the domestic anti-avoidance rules and the newly adopted rules under the OECD BEPS framework would (should) interact with each other.
  • Essay Submission
  • The deadline is midnight British Summer Time (BST) on Tuesday, 30 April 2024.

Young Lawyers' Committee

The topic for the Young Lawyer’s scholarship will be based on the session’s they will present at the upcoming annual conference. Below are the session title and description. Please base you essay on one of the sessions below.

Essay topics:

The AI Revolution: are we too young to die?

Join us for a thought-provoking session that delves into the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and its implications for humanity. In the midst of this AI revolution, we’ll explore the questions and challenges it poses. Are we ready for the changes AI is bringing to our lives, industries, and society, or are we too young to understand the full extent of its potential consequences?

Young talent attraction: the in house and law firm dichotomy

  • Essay Submission
  • The deadline is midnight British Summer Time (BST) on Tuesday, 30 April 2024.

Past Winners

Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Annual Conference

  • Academic and Professional Development Committee - Lucia Rosso, Uruguay
  • Access to Justice and Legal Aid Committee - Anusha Rao, India
  • African Regional Forum - Ikechukwu Ugwu, Nigeria
  • Agriculture and Food Section - Esther Addai, Ghana
  • Asia Pacific Forum - Kuruvila M Jacob, India
  • Corporate Law Section - Puneet Mishra, New Delhi, India
  • Criminal Law Section - Chang Liu, China
  • Dispute Resolution Section - Ruth Keating, United Kingdom
  • Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law (SEERIL) Section - Aldo Isaac Sainz López, Netherlands
  • European Regional Forum - Renato Guerrieri, Uruguay
  • Insolvency Section - Maithili Moondra, India
  • Intellectual Property, Communications and Technology Law Section - Rebecca Keating, United Kingdom
  • International Commerce, Trade, Franchising and Product Law Section - Betty Vo, Canada
  • Latin American Regional Forum - Jennifer Sales, Panama
  • Law and Individual Rights Section - Prashant Daga , India
  • Law Firm Management Committee - Sokunvannary Tep, Cambodia
  • LGBTQI+ Law Committee -  Filip Rak, Poland
  • Maritime and Transport Law Committee -  Gauri Prabhakar, Australia
  • North American Regional Forum - Camila Mariotto Ferreira, Brazil
  • Poverty and Social Development Committee - Christiana Essie Sagay, Canada
  • Private Client Tax Committee - Maame Adwoa Dufie Adu-Gyamfi, Ghana
  • Pro Bono Committee - Annette Herrera, El Salvador
  • Professional Ethics Committee and the Alternative and New Law Business Structures Committee - Esperanza Franco , Spain
  • Real Estate Section - Ratana Nem, Cambodia
  • Rule of Law Forum - Fathima Ajra Mohamed Azhar, Sri Lanka
  • Taxes Committee - Sneh Shah, India
  • Young Lawyers' Committee - Abeer Sharma, Hong Kong

Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Annual Conference

  • Access to Justice and Legal Aid Committee - Louise Grosos, France
  • Antitrust Section - Julia Carneiro, Brazil
  • Asia Pacific Regional Forum - Utsav Mitra, India
  • Corporate Law Section - Alexander Batsis, Australia
  • Criminal Law Section - Omolola Aye, Nigeria
  • Dispute Resolution Section - Mayuri Tiwari, India
  • Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law (SEERIL) Section - Nelson Iheanacho, Nigeria
  • European Regional Forum - Ana-Mari Eremieva, Bulgaria
  • Insolvency Section - Hasan Mohammad, Australia
  • Intellectual Property, Communications and Technology Law Section - Yoo Jung Hur , Republic of Korea
  • International Commerce, Trade, Franchising and Product Law Section - Andrii Kaftanov, Ukraine
  • Law Firm Management Committee - Shreya Vajpei , India
  • Poverty and Social Development Committee - Patricia Fita Rios, Spain
  • Professional Ethics Committee - Punjabi Meghna , India
  • Real Estate Section - Ipshita Bhuwania, India
  • Taxes Committee - Rogerio Abdala Bittencourt, Brazil

Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 Conference Seoul Scholarship programme

  • Access to Justice and Legal Aid Committee - Paul Tamburro, Australia
  • African Regional Forum - Nnadozie Ewelike, Nigeria
  • Alternative and New Law Business Structures Committee and Professional Ethics Committee - Sean Colenso-Semple, the Netherlands
  • Asia Pacific Regional Forum - Gul Beste Sabaz, South Korea
  • Corporate Law Section- Luciana Liefeldt, Argentina
  • Criminal Law Section - Vaibhav Kumar, India
  • Dispute Resolution Section – Ritvik Kulkarni, India
  • European Regional Forum - Trayan Targov, Bulgaria
  • Financial Services Section - Tanish Gupta, India
  • Intellectual Property, Communications and Technology Law Section - Inika Charles, India
  • International Sales, Franchising and Product Law Section - Quentin Vander Schueren, Canada
  • Law Firm Management Committee - Wangoko Njoroge, Kenya
  • Michael Priory Insolvency Section - Myles Bayliss, Australia
  • North American Regional Forum - Tom Hvala, Australia
  • Poverty and Social Development Committee - Varun Mansinghka, India
  • Private Client Tax Committee - Martin La Rosa, Peru
  • Pro-Bono Committee - María Victoria Garabato, Uruguay
  • Real Estate Section - Vikrant Shetty, India
  • Regulation of Lawyers Compliance Committee - Durojaiye Olasubomi, Nigeria
  • Rule of Law Forum - Jori Bregasi, Albania
  • Taxes Committee - Lucia Millán Serrano, Spain

Congratulations to the winners of the 2018 Conference Rome Scholarship programme

  • Academic and Professional Development Committee - Pamela Towela Sambo, Zambia
  • Access to Justice and Legal Aid Committee - Muhammad Awwal Danlami, Nigeria
  • African Regional Forum and Law Firm Management Committee - Isaac Aburam Lartey, Ghana
  • Alternative and New Law Business Structures Committee and Professional Ethics Committee - Blanco Alberto, Spain
  • Antitrust and Trade Law Committee - Alice Bradshaw, Australia
  • Asia Pacific Regional Forum - Ishita Khare, India
  • Aviation Law Committee - María Calleri, Argentina
  • Corporate Law - Abhishek Dubey, India
  • Criminal Law Section - Mariam Adebambo, Nigeria
  • Dispute Resolution Section - Nathan Eastwood, Australia
  • European Regional Forum - Markus Beham, Austria
  • Financial Services Section - Rosa Jacqueline Escobar Rodas, Peru
  • Intellectual Property, Communications and Technology Law Section - Shivani Vij, India
  • International Sales, Franchising and Product Law Section - Andres Castiglioni, Uruguay
  • Leisure Industries Section - Bhavana Sunder, India
  • Human Rights Law Committee and LGBTI Law Committee - Dorji Wangmo, Bhutan
  • North American Regional Forum - Aditya Deolekar, India
  • Private Client Tax Committee - Tsatsraltuya Sandag, Mongolia
  • Real Estate Section - Rodrigo Zaldivar, Peru
  • Regulation of Lawyers Compliance Committee - Kamla Braithwaite, Trinidad
  • Rule of Law Forum - Hugh Alexander Tsun-Ting Kam, China
  • Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law Section - Aniket Singhania, India
  • Taxes Committee - Meyyappan Nagappan, India

Congratulations to the winners of the 2017 Annual Conference Sydney Scholarship programme

  • Academic and Professional Development Committee - Kinley Gyeltshen, Bhutan
  • Access to Justice and Legal Aid Committee - Precious-Rhoda Edwei Akpabey, Ghana
  • African Regional Forum - Titilayo Ajayi, Nigeria
  • Alternative and New Law Business Structures Committee - Derya Durlu Gürzumar, Turkey
  • Antitrust and Trade Law Section - Lauren Battaglia, USA
  • Asia Pacific Regional Forum - Elena Kim, New Zealand
  • Aviation Law Committee - Mansi Singh, India
  • Criminal Law Section - Paloma Blazquez, Spain
  • Dispute Resolution Section - Eva Litina, Greece
  • Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law (SEERIL) Section - Meghna Chandra, UK
  • European Regional Forum - Verena Wieditz, France
  • Family Law Committee - Mark Ablett, UK
  • Financial Services Section - Aldo Turella, Italy
  • Individual Tax and Private Client Committee - Venetia Argyropoulou, Cyprus
  • Intellectual Property, Communications and Technology Law Section - Nazli Cansin Karga Giritli, UK
  • International Sales, Franchising and Product Law Section - Calvin Leung, Canada
  • Law Firm Management Committee - Chidera Igweagu, Nigeria
  • Leisure Industries Section - Probal Bose, India
  • Michael Prior Scholarship (Insolvency Section) - Fabio Weinberg Crocco, USA
  • North American Regional Forum - Juan Pablo Hugues Arthur, Mexico
  • Professional Ethics Committee - Aditi Rani, India
  • Real Estate Section - Zuzanna Wencel-Czuryszkiewicz, Poland
  • Taxes Committee - Julie Abdalla, Australia

Congratulations to the winners of the 2016 Annual Conference Washington Scholarship programme

  • Access to Justice and Legal Aid Committee - Shafaq Asmat, Pakistan
  • Alternative Business Structures Committee - Isobelle Watts, Australia
  • Antitrust and Trade Law Section - Emilio Vazquez, Mexico
  • Aviation Law Committee - Roberta Verdesca, Italy
  • Corporate Law Section - Victoriia Dobrynska, Ukraine
  • Criminal Law Section - Pavlo Bespalov, Ukraine
  • Dispute Resolution Section - Karina Travaglione, Australia
  • European Regional Forum - John Morgan, Scotland
  • Family Law Committee - Mabel Tembo-Chakoleka, Zambia
  • Financial Services Section - Cynthia Onyinyechi Igodo, Nigeria
  • Human Rights Law Committee - Freya Dinshaw, Australia
  • Individual Tax and Private Client Committee - Helen Citron, England
  • Intellectual Property, Communications and Technology Law Section - Zehra Betul Ayranci, Turkey
  • Law Firm Management Committee - Evans Moyo, Zimbabwe
  • Maritime and Transport Law Committee - Carmel Proudfoot, Australia

Congratulations to the winners of the 2015 Annual Conference Vienna Scholarship programme

  • Antitrust and Trade Law Section - Thiago Nascimento dos Reis, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Aviation Law - Juan Manuel Estrada, Mexico City, Mexico
  • Corporate Law Section - Malaveeka Chakravarthy, Bangalore, India
  • Criminal Law Section - Nahid Rabbi, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Dispute Resolution Section - Courtney Furner, Mendoza, Argentina
  • Energy, Environment, Natural Resources an Infrastructure Law Section (SEERIL) - Saelese Haynes, Mt. Lambert, Trinidad
  • European Regional Forum - Antonio Modola, S. Giorgio La Molara, Italy
  • Financial Services Section - Kefa Nsubuga, Kampala, Uganda
  • Individual Tax and Private Client Committee - Jorge Liendo, Lima, Peru
  • Insolvency Section - Natalia Anokhina, Lviv, Ukraine
  • Intellectual Property, Communications and Technology Law Section - Alyssa Cervantes, Brussels, Belgium (origin: USA)
  • Law Firm Management Committee: East African Law Society - Isaiah Munje, Nairobi, Kenya
  • Law Firm Management Committee: South African Development Community Lawyers Association - Doreen Vimbai Gapare, Harare, Zimbabwe
  • Magna Carta, Student - Gavin Dingley, Hartlepool, United Kingdom
  • Magna Carta, Young Lawyer - Nkiruka Maduekwe, London, United Kingdom (origin: Nigeria)
  • Real Estate Section - Pavlina Ivanova, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Taxation Section - Pim Duteweert, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Congratulations to the past winners of the 2014 Annual Conference Tokyo Scholarship programme

  • Antitrust and Trade Law Section - Benjamin Guelfi, Montevideo, Uruguay
  • Asia Pacific Regional Forum - Isabel Chun-Yee Tam, Hong Kong
  • Asia Pacific Regional Forum - Katherine Jonckheere, Singapore
  • Corporate Law Section - Leticia Sophia Goni Fraquelli, Montevideo, Uruguay
  • Corporate Law Section - Lucan Braun, San Paulo, Brazil
  • Criminal Law Section - Lloyd Nicholas Vergara, Manila, Philippines
  • Dispute Resolution Section - Wanjiru Ngige, Kikuyu, Kenya
  • Energy, Environment, Natural Resources an Infrastructure Law Section (SEERIL) - Tessa D'Abbs, Melbourne, Australia
  • Financial Services Section - Ekaterina Galkova, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • Individual Tax and Private Client Committee - Julia Jonas, Austin, Texas, USA
  • Insolvency Section - Matti Lemmens
  • Intellectual Property, Communications and Technology Law Section - Omolola Abaje-Williams, London, England
  • International Sales Committee - Kaustbh Sinah, Noida, India
  • Leisure Industries Section - Zachary Bastian, Washington DC, USA
  • Maritime and Transport Law Committee - Jose Augusto Dias de Castro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Real Estate Section - Volodymyr Grabchak, Kiev, Ukraine
  • Taxes Committee - Sebastian Lopez Nieto, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Congratulations to the past winners of the IBA 2013 Annual Conference Boston Scholarship programme

  • Antitrust and Trade Law Section - Surbhi Mehta
  • Aviation Law Committee - Amanda Foong Teoh
  • Corporate Law Section - Malou Martinsson
  • Criminal Law Section - Sheree Rubinstein
  • Dispute Resolution Section - Carolina Secondo
  • Financial Services Section - Nusula Nassuna
  • Human Resources Section - Abayomi Okubote
  • Individual Tax and Private Client Committee - Helena Slawinska
  • Insolvency Section - Samantha Rothman
  • Intellectual Property, Communications and Technology Law Section - Ruwanai Dantanarayana
  • International Sales, Franchising and Product Law Section - Dustin Combs
  • Leisure Industries Section - Joasia Luzak
  • Real Estate Section - Yuriy Datskiv
  • SEERIL Section - Nabutola Wanjala
  • Taxes Committee - Dhruv Sanghavi

If you require information on scholarships for years prior to those shown, please contact divisions@int-bar.org

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