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Wristbands must be collected between Tuesday 08:00 and Thursday 15:00 from the IBA registration desk.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
Feb 17, 2023
This article will outline the development of China’s restrictions on the cross-border transfer of personal information (PI export), detailing PI export mechanisms provided by the Personal Information Protection Law. It will also explain the practical implications of the restrictions.
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07:45 - 08:00. Welcome remarks.
• Mark Ellis, Executive Director of the IBA
• Anna Ogrenchuk, Immediate Past President of the Ukrainian Bar Association, Managing Partner, LCF Law Group
08:00 - 08:15.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
Jun 12, 2024
The new Foreign State Immunity Law 2023 of the People’s Republic of China came into force on 1 January 2024. This shifts the country (as well as its special administrative regions, Hong Kong and Macau) away from absolute state immunity to restrictive state immunity, bringing it more in line with the relatively prevalent practice among the international community. This article discusses the status of state immunity in public international law, analyses the new law’s provisions and examines practical challenges that will be faced by those seeking to utilise this law to enforce judgments or awards against foreign states and state entities, and the new law’s innovations that go beyond the United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property of 2004 and the UK State Immunity Act 1978.
Sep 27, 2023
The rise in popularity of generative artificial intelligence (‘generative AI’) has ignited the discussion on whether junior employees can be replaced by it. Some have gone to the extent of questioning whether professionals, such as lawyers, can also be replaced by generative AI. Is it wise to replace junior employees or lawyers with generative AI? What factors should be considered before deploying generative AI tools in your business? To consider these questions, we first need to understand the basic workings of generative AI and what it can offer. Fundamentally, AI is intelligence that is not biological. The general understanding is that machines will be ascribed with this intelligence. These machines have the ability to interpret, learn from and process external data in a way that is similar to the capabilities of the human mind. Generative AI is a type of AI program that generates content from a data set. It uses deep learning, a type of machine learning system that behaves like a neural network to simulate the functions of a human brain. In other words, it can mimic human intelligence by exhibiting analytical skills to create new content. Not only can generative AI be utilised in chatbot programs to create text, but it can also be used in programs that can create images, sound or videos. This article will consider two major forms of generative AI, in the context of risks to businesses: chatbots using generative pre-trained transformer technology programs; and image generating programs.
May 21, 2018
May 2018. Filmed interview with Bill Browder, the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hermitage Capital Management, which at one point was one of the largest investment advisers in Russia. He discusses Russian corruption, sanctions, election interference and seeking justice for Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer who exposed a large-scale tax fraud and died in pre-trial custody in November 2009.
Webcast interview with Mark Malloch Brown, former UN Deputy Secretary-General, 20 November 2012 - film
Aug 17, 2017
Over the last few years, a refugee crisis has seen a large number of refugees arrive in Europe from various countries in the Middle East, North Africa and elsewhere, seeking a better life. Many have reached the Greek islands including Lesvos and both here and on the mainland, find themselves relying on an infrastructure that is struggling to cope.
Aug 22, 2016
This webcast and audience Q&A with Funke Abimbola, General Counsel of Roche UK, explored the corporate compliance challenges facing the leading biotech company and the evolving role of in-house lawyers.
The interview examined the legal aspects of supporting Roche’s pharmaceutical R&D and healthcare strategies, addressing issues such as company operations, risk management, and diversity in the profession. The interview was conducted by the BBC's Sally Bundock.
Oct 16, 2018
Filmed interview. Mary Robinson is the former President of Ireland and a former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. She has become a global advocate for climate justice, having served twice as the UN’s Special Envoy on Climate Change and is founder of the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice. She speaks to the IBA about the challenges after the 2015 Paris Agreement, the role of business and states in reducing their carbon emissions and about the unmistakeable role of women
Jun 06, 2016
This webcast with Drago Kos, Chair of the OECD Working Group on Bribery, covered timely issues in anti-corruption, including relevant aspects emerging from the Panama Papers as the OECD commenced the 4th phase of review under the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention.
The webcast was conducted by Jonathan Rugman, Foreign Affairs Correspondent at UK broadcaster Channel 4.
Ex-IBA President Fernando Pelaez-Pier interviews Ivan Velasquez, auxiliary judge of the criminal chamber of the Supreme Court, Colombia. The interview focuses on Mr Velasquez' investigations into links between terrorist groups and members of Congress.
The IBA hosted a live webcast and Q&A with Cyril Shroff, Managing Partner at one of India’s leading law firms, Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co (AMSS) in Mumbai, in April 2013.
Over his 30-year career he has seen the development of much of India’s corporate law and the growth of India into an Asian superpower. Shroff shared insight on such issues as the Indian economy and liberalisation of the Indian legal profession.
The IBA Mid-Year Meeting will be taking place virtually this year across the month of May. In order to note important dates in your calendars, please see the following meetings that we would like to highlight as being of interest to bar representatives.
Interview with Joseph Stiglitz, IBA Annual Conference 2012 keynote speaker on financial crisis, role of state, political reform, GDP and many other issues.
A conversation with - Fatou Bensouda, ICC Chief Prosecutor
Jim O’Neill webcast, 20 June 2013. The former Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management is best known for coining the term ‘BRICs’ as the acronym now universally applied to the world’s four key emerging economies – Brazil, Russia, India and China – symbolising the current shift in global economic power. O’Neill also led the attempted Red Knights takeover of Manchester United in 2010.
Beatrice Mtetwa and the rule of law - the UK film premiere of the first film to be produced about one of Zimbabwe’s most courageous human rights lawyers was shown on 18 June 2013 in London to a packed audience of more than 300 people.
Jul 21, 2022
Amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, the International Bar Association (IBA) and the Ukrainian National Bar Association (UNBA) have partnered to host a series of online seminars. The first two will focus on defence (21 July) and international criminal law (28 July).
Jan 13, 2022
A report on a survey created by the Diversity and Inclusion Working Party of the IBA European Regional Forum to understand how Diversity & Inclusion is perceived by European law firms and to try to learn from each other’s experience.
Almost half of Brazil’s population does not have access to basic sanitation, a critical situation which has been further emphasised by the Covid-19 pandemic. In June 2020, the federal government issued Law No 14,026/2020 which aims to change this state of affairs and is expected to increase the much needed investment in this area.
On 27 February 2020, the Colombian Council of State set aside an international arbitral award under Law 1563 of 2012 (the ‘Arbitration Statute’) for the first time, citing departure from the procedure agreed by the parties.
As President of the European Court of Human Rights - which oversees justice for more than 800 million people - Sir Nicolas Bratza grappled with a backlog of 138,000 cases, growing anti-ECHR sentiment in the UK and elsewhere, and stagnating funding streams. What hopes for the future?
Jul 26, 2022
As further support of Ukraine’s legal profession, the International Bar Association and the Ukrainian National Bar Association, supported by the UNBA’s Higher School of Advocacy, will deliver a legal training session covering the topic of international criminal law.
Gabriela Knaul, UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, discusses her mandate; priorities including gender; China, Syria and MENA, and Zimbabwe among other subjects - film
The London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and Covid are among the most widely used five-letter acronyms in 2020. LIBOR has been around since the 1970s, but is doomed to disappear; Covid took the world by surprise at the end of 2019 and wreaked global havoc on the financial markets during the first half of 2020.
The present article describes the dynamic of LIBOR in regard to its future replacement rates [...]
Jun 19, 2023
El International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute celebró el Día Internacional del Juicio Justo (IFTD) el 14 de junio de 2023
Apr 29, 2025
This article reviews the alternatives for banks in Brazil to transfer credit risk from their portfolios, including the existing shortcomings and the road ahead to the wider adoption of synthetic transfer structures.
Aug 04, 2021
Upcoming events of the IBA Anticorruption Committee: monthly IBA ACC officers’ meetings and the start of a new selection of candidates for officer positions.
Interview with Carlos Ayala, Former President, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, July 2011. Carlos Ayala speaks to the IBA about the case of Judge Maria Afiuni.
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