From the Editors – Construction Law International – April 2024

Dear readers,

We are delighted to introduce the April issue of Construction Law International (CLInt) and to welcome the new editorial team. China Irwin is now the Chair of the Editorial Board, Thayananthan Baskaran is the Committee Editor, and Eric Franco is the Deputy Committee Editor.

This issue continues our FIDIC around the world series with contributions from Japan and Qatar, an update from India, and a response to our diversity questionnaire from the United Arab Emirates.

Our feature articles in this issue cover a wide range of topics, including what a contractor or design professional would need to do to defend a claim arising from the use of artificial intelligence in a construction project, the duty to warn in construction contracts, and the law and economics doctrine and alternative dispute resolution methods applied to construction contracts.

We are also pleased to share with our readers a checklist on the pros and cons of EPC contracts, which was discussed at the IBA Global Conference in Paris in October 2023.

We thank our contributors for sharing their experience and insights. As always, we encourage all International Construction Projects Committee members to contribute to CLInt by submitting articles to Thayananthan Baskaran at thaya@baskaranlaw.com.

Thayananthan Baskaran
Committee Editor, IBA International Construction Projects Committee
Baskaran, Kuala Lumpur
thaya@baskaranlaw.com

Eric Franco
Deputy Committee Editor, IBA International Construction Projects Committee
Legal Delta, Lima
eric.franco@legaldelta.com