This session will be a study of governmental actions taken to acknowledge historical discrimination against the LGBTI community. Is there a case for reparations? How do governments across the globe come to terms with this history?

In many countries, natives and immigrants are punished differently under the law. In addition to paying fines and facing incarceration, some non-citizens also face additional immigration penalties for violating laws and some countries have made violating immigration law itself a criminal act. Additionally, some countries offer crime victims and witnesses visa benefits. This panel will discuss these topics as well as the overall collaboration between immigration and criminal lawyers as they seek to represent their mutual clients.

An open meeting of the Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Committee held to discuss matters of interest and future activities.

An open meeting of the Oil and Gas Law Committee held to discuss matters of interest and future activities.

An open meeting of the Academic and Professional Development Committee held to discuss matters of interest and future activities.

An open meeting of the International Commerce and Distribution Committee held to discuss matters of interest and future activities.

This session will analyse best practices and difference approaches to dealing with a different cultural environment (from Asian to Latin American cultural differences and beyond) when engaging in international commerce.

Immigration lawyers from around the world talk about their best practices for managing their practices including the best use of technology, managing your teams, marketing your firms and staying on top of your finances.

The panel will discuss the boundaries of the First Amendment and Fair Use as applied to television series, documentaries, docuseries, and videos. We will explore the legality of using (i) AI to create / recreate individual’s personality rights; (ii) personality rights in a television series/docuseries; (iii) to endorse goods/services; and (iv) how countries without a First Amendment deal with these issues.

The panel will explore the legal and illegal use of crypto assets, the application of sanctions and anti-money laundering (AML) regulations to the space, and the challenges practitioners and enforcement authorities face in ensuring compliance.

 Minority investors need to secure sufficient rights to safeguard the value of their participation such as governance rights, anti-dilution and top-up protections, and, last but not least, exit rights. The panel will focus on tactics and strategies to balance the interests of investors as well as current trends and innovations.

An open meeting of the International Trade and Customs Law Committee held to discuss matters of interest and future activities.

HumanRightsConflicts between regional courts and national courts/governments (eg the recent Alex Saab extradition case involving Cape Verde and the ECOWAS court) and government failures to comply with the judgements of regional courts like the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights and the (now neutered) SADC Tribunal – this has potential implications for the AfCFTA.

An open meeting of the Immigration and Nationality Law Committee held to discuss matters of interest and future activities.

SustainabilityFocusIn this session we will look at the following three aspects:

- Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) in Europe and next deadlines: introduction of Taxonomy Regulations in full, as well as SFDR 2, in 2022;

- US progress in ESG and catching up with the EU; and

- ESG data – the key challenge for compliance and how development finance institutions (DFI) are helping champion ESG into the mainstream.

SUSTAINABILITY FOCUS sessions marked as such are part of the IBA Annual Conference 2022 sustainability focus on Tuesday and Thursday, grouping sessions discussing different aspects of ESG and sustainability across the different legal fields.

Buoyed by evolving global economic interactivity and driven by the initiative of such institutions as ICSID and UNCITRAL, Investor-State Mediation has become a growing staple of the ADR lexicon and feature of investment dispute management.
 
This session will feature institution representatives, legal counsel, and mediators who, together, will;

• Address current international developments
• Consider new mediation provisions being adopted in bilateral and multilateral investment treaties
• Provide practice updates on the use of mediation in Investor-State disputes

Expect a lively exchange around one of the hottest sectors in international dispute resolution

The classic session devoted to recent evolutions in investment arbitration. This year the Committee will analyse the recent paradigmatic in investment arbitration.