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Feb 09, 2023
As the regime cracks down hard on protests, Global Insight assesses how the international community ought to respond in order to protect the rights of the country’s 88 million population.
AI is transforming the way societies process information, make decisions and build consensus. AI’s role in dispute resolution continues to evolve. This session explores how AI can augment the mediation process without displacing human judgment. The session will also consider initiatives in online dispute resolution (ODR), AI tools, and digital negotiation assistants, as well as the risks of bias and over-automation. The discussion will conclude with practical reflections on what mediators and policymakers can do to ensure AI serves as a collaborative partner – enhancing empathy, efficiency, and trust in the evolving landscape of international dispute resolution.
IBA Annual Conference Copenhagen 2026
The Litigation Committee brings together international litigators to share their personal experiences of legal, practical and procedural issues from around the world. Providing the opportunity to build a strong cross-border professional network for lawyers at all levels and ages, the Committee uses the platform offered by the main IBA conference and its own specialist mid-year conference to share views on issues such as jurisdiction, choice of law and international judicial assistance. The Committee also cooperates with other committees on issues relevant to wider dispute resolution.
IBA Global Insight August/September 2017. Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney once said optimistically ‘the age of irresponsibility is over’. Recent events suggest otherwise, with financial institutions yet to face the kind of reckoning that forces fundamental shifts in culture.
Age-old tactics of deception, propaganda, false flag operations and social manipulation enjoy a new medium.
IBA War Crimes Committee Conference 2025: Law on the frontlines
Formed in 2005, the Senior Lawyers Committee represents senior lawyers and has received interest from younger IBA members eager to learn from their experience. The Committee aims to combat age discrimination, promote mentorship, and facilitate global networking. The Committee organises sessions and social events, often in collaboration with other IBA committees, focusing on how senior lawyers' expertise can benefit the profession. Recent topics include discrimination, career progression, and mentorship. The Committee also helps senior lawyers find roles where they can share their experience, including in sustainable development projects through IBA member organisations.
Feb 02, 2026
The capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by the US shocked the world. Global Insight examines the implications of America’s use of military action for its neighbours and the international order.
As robots transition from controlled industrial settings into public spaces and private homes, their deployment raises significant legal and regulatory considerations. Service, caregiving, and security robots increasingly rely on continuous environmental sensing, producing vast amounts of personal and biometric data, which triggers complex questions under privacy, data protection and surveillance laws. At the same time, autonomous decision-making in safety-critical contexts – such as factory patrols or disaster response – touches on liability allocation, product safety standards and the boundaries of human oversight. These developments also intersect with labour law and workforce policy, as automation begins to reshape job functions and employment structures.
This session will explore the evolving legal frameworks needed to govern human–robot coexistence in a manner that is safe, rights-respecting and socially beneficial. Panellists will discuss emerging regulatory models across jurisdictions, including data governance rules, certification and safety assurance regimes, accountability frameworks for autonomous decision systems and policy tools to support fair workforce transitions. The conversation will consider how legislators, regulators, industry and civil society can collaborate to ensure that robotic technologies enhance human dignity, public trust and equitable societal outcomes.
IBA Annual Conference Copenhagen 2026
Feb 13, 2020
New rules for copyright in the EU need to be enacted in national law of Member States by April 2021. Global Insight explains why these reforms are highly controversial and what their impact is likely to be.
With increasing longevity and rising retirement ages, modern workplaces are witnessing a diverse mix of generations – each with unique expectations and values.
Annual IBA Employment and Diversity Law Conference 2024
May 17, 2023
Despite widespread acceptance that newspapers are a crucial element of democratic societies, they’re under severe threat as revenues flow to internet platforms. Global Insight reports on legislative efforts to save the ‘Fourth Estate’.
This panel will explore how AI and digital assets are reshaping the global tax landscape. We will examine developments ranging from AI in audits, predictive analytics, taxpayer rights, and emerging debates on whether AI agents themselves should be taxed, to the rise of R&D and infrastructure incentives for AI, including large-scale datacentres. The discussion will also cover evolving rules for digital content, and crypto investment structures, highlighting both the opportunities and policy challenges of taxing innovation in an increasingly digital economy.
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15th Annual London Finance and Capital Markets Tax Conference
Global Insight assesses the implications for businesses and their lawyers, from contracts to the need to diversify how goods and services are sourced.
IBA Annual Conference Copenhagen 2026
Apr 14, 2026
As generative AI improves, the risks associated with deepfake evidence increase. This article explores these risks and how they map onto existing and proposed evidentiary rules in Canada, ultimately concluding that – in a world where truth is increasingly less apparent – more may be needed to protect litigation’s truth-finding function.
This panel on whistleblowing will provide an update on the latest developments in this critical area. Panellists will discuss advances in the implementation of the EU Whistleblowing Directive and their impact on organisations.
The panel will also examine new legal and policy developments related to the protection of whistleblowers and the use of digital tools to report misconduct, the intersection of whistleblowing and data privacy, and whistleblowing as a tool for ensuring compliance across the supply chain.
19th Annual IBA Anti-Corruption Conference
IBA Global Insight Aug/Sept 2019: Automated facial recognition technology is facing a legal challenge in the UK, while some law enforcement authorities in the US are banned from using it. Global Insight assesses the technology and the risks it poses.
As the financial sector increasingly embraces technological innovations such as artificial intelligence and blockchain, the future of regulatory compliance stands at a pivotal junction. This discussion will delve into how these technologies are set to transform financial regulation, the potential challenges they pose, and the strategies organizations can adopt to stay ahead in this dynamic environment, ensuring robust compliance while fostering innovation.
39th IBA International Financial Law Conference
Jul 19, 2023
In this feature, the first of two parts, Global Insight assesses the legal issues associated with conventional fuels – oil, gas, coal and nuclear – when it comes to responding to the ever-worsening climate crisis and the urgent need for energy transition.
Understanding and managing the questions raised and the complexities of litigation in the age of social media is therefore crucial. When and how can social media be used as a source of evidence?
IBA Young Litigators Seminar 2025
Cody Wilson is no supporter of the Parkland student movement against guns. On the contrary, his avowed goal is to crush the teenagers’ dreams: ‘All this Parkland stuff, the students, all these dreams of “common-sense gun reforms”? No. The internet will serve guns.’
Family offices continue to evolve and have a prominent role in global investment, wealth preservation, and philanthropy. This panel will explore the latest trends impacting family offices, including the rise of direct investments, the growing importance of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and impact investing, the shift toward professionalisation and institutionalisation, as well as governance and succession structures employed for these purposes, offering practical strategies for advisors better to serve their family office clients in an ever-changing landscape.
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
Apr 30, 2025
Intellectual property (IP) law is changing dramatically, owing to the rapid growth of developing technologies, globalisation and ongoing legal reforms. In recent years, there has been a significant shift in how IP is regulated and used by businesses. In addition to altering the IP environment, the emergence of modern technologies, like blockchain, big data and artificial intelligence, has presented serious obstacles to the established frameworks for IP enforcement and protection. These technologies are demonstrating the adaptability of IP rules in the present day and changing the core ideas that support them.
This session explores how law firms can ensure their lawyers continue to grow, adapt, and add value as AI transforms the legal profession.
IBA Annual Conference Copenhagen 2026
May 19, 2022
Given the amount of Russian disinformation, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky’s ability to use the media to galvanise the international community has been a key feature of the conflict. But, as the Geneva Conventions make clear, there are limits.
In the digital age, concerns around traditional pricing cartels are being reshaped by the rise of algorithmic pricing and automated information exchange.
29th Annual Competition Conference
This ‘roundtable’ article analyses force majeure and the key aspects of enforceability across a number of jurisdictions, in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. The jurisdictions featured are the United States; the United Arab Emirates; Brazil; Singapore; France; as well as English law.
IBA Young Lawyers Professional Ethics Forum 2026
Jan 23, 2023
Last autumn, US antitrust agencies blocked a proposed deal between two major book publishers. Global Insight examines the case in the context of the activist approach being taken by regulators, especially towards Big Tech.
By prioritising your wellbeing, you can sustain your productivity over time, continue to contribute valuable skills, and transform ageing from a challenge into a positive experience.
IBA Annual Conference Copenhagen 2026
Oct 29, 2025
Report on a Young Litigators seminar held at the Singapore office of Allen & Gledhill
A look at the weaponisation of the legal process against perceived political opponents in various jurisdictions and the implications for the rise of populism and the rule of law.
IBA Annual Conference Copenhagen 2026
Mar 26, 2020
Privacy and data protection rules should not be an obstacle in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, users’ safeguards should be upheld: this is the basic assumption that should guide national authorities currently facing the Covid-19 emergency, who are looking for technological instruments to make their actions more effective (such as access and treatment of citizens’ personal data, and the use of tracing applications).
This session will explore the rapidly developing technologies and novel products that are changing the way lawyers are supporting M&A activity in the digital age, the benefits to both law firms and clients of embracing new ways of doing deals, the opportunities technology presents, as well as the challenges created by such innovation. Topics to be explored include: how technological innovations are impacting transactional efficiency; how the M&A lawyer’s role has evolved and will evolve in shaping successful deal making by leveraging technology; the potential impacts of the digital age on shareholder engagement, empowerment and transaction approval; and regulatory implications and ethical considerations of utilising new technologies to support M&A transactions.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
Continuing developments in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) have raised concerns that algorithms may be unfairly or even illegally biased. This session allowed participants to hear from and interact with leading specialists in the fields of machine learning and AI as they intersect with ethics and the law, in order to understand if eliminating bias in machine learning is possible or even desirable from a technical standpoint.
Combatting age discrimination: the role for employers and in-house lawyers, In-House Perspective May 2019
The age of sanctions: opportunities and challenges for the new generation of lawyers
May 11, 2026
This article addresses how Peruvian patent law may respond to the growing convergence of artificial intelligence and biotechnology. It suggests that, rather than requiring an entirely new legal regime, this technological shift calls for a more careful and rigorous application of existing patentability standards under the current framework. In that context, it examines questions of human inventorship, inventive step, sufficiency of disclosure, and compliance with rules governing biodiversity and traditional knowledge. Overall, the article proposes that Peru already has the legal tools to address these challenges, provided patent examination is carried out with greater technical rigor and a more exacting approach to the limits and requirements established by law.
Database infrastructure and data‑centre‑driven cloud services have become the backbone of the global economy, underpinning competitiveness in finance, AI, logistics, healthcare, and media. Digitalization and AI hyperscaling are driving steep increases in electricity demand and reshaping grid load profiles, accelerating long‑term power‑purchase agreements and capital flows into renewables and storage.
Policymakers and regulators are scrambling to catch up with this tectonic shift, confronting the climate, water, land‑use, labour, and digital‑rights implications of hyperscale build‑out and AI‑driven demand. In Europe, the EU Taxonomy, Energy Efficiency Directive, and CSRD are turning data centres into test beds for “green digital” policy, with binding efficiency thresholds, granular energy‑and‑water disclosures, and direct sustainable‑finance consequences. By contrast, the United States leans on a patchwork of state‑level energy, water, and data‑protection rules layered on grid‑interconnection constraints, producing a looser but increasingly contentious environment for siting, climate commitments, and community impacts.
For lawyers, this is no longer a niche specialty but a frontline ESG issue: guiding clients through sharply divergent transatlantic disclosure regimes while managing greenwashing risk, securities‑law exposure, and potential climate, resource, and human‑rights risks of the new data economy.
ESG in Evolution: the legal imperatives of tomorrow
Nov 29, 2024
The increasing prevalence of technology in every aspect of human society is driving an evolution in the legal profession, particularly in litigation practice. Today, lawyers are required to possess a deeper understanding of technology and its associated legal implications to provide effective assistance. This necessity underscores the importance for legal professionals to adapt to the rapidly changing technological landscape and grasp the legal ramifications tied to it.
This panel will examine how AI adoption is transforming operations, risk profiles and value creation in closely held companies and what boards must do in response. The panelists will map practical use cases — eg, sales enablement, customer support, coding copilots, document automation and forecasting. They will also map the attendant risks, including data leakage and trade‑secret loss, intellectual property ownership, model bias and hallucinations and supply‑chain/vendor AI exposure. The discussion will translate these developments into directors’ duties: setting AI strategy and risk appetite, instituting model governance and inventories, strengthening data governance, overseeing cybersecurity and incident readiness and ensuring decision‑useful reporting where owners and directors often overlap. Panelists will explore practical considerations, such as how these developments are affecting directors’ and officers’ insurance and how they may be reshaping the interaction between outside counsel and the general counsel/corporate secretary.
IBA Annual Conference Copenhagen 2026
Competition in the digital age: learning from the European Commission’s Guess decision, In-House Perspective May 2019
Jul 01, 2022
On 18 November 2021, the European Commission adopted a communication with a promising title: ‘A competition policy fit for new challenges’. The document covers all pillars of EU competition enforcement: antitrust law, merger control and state aid law. It also addresses new issues, such as the Digital Markets Act and the fight against third-country subsidies. However, although the Commission announced ‘a review of competition policy tools with unprecedented scope and ambition’, the 20-page paper does not reveal any ground-breaking new policies. Antitrust practitioners looking for a revolution might therefore be disappointed.
Lawyering in the age of AI: Real-world lessons on adoption, governance and risk
Innovation, disruption, need for growth and decreasing regulatory and tax barriers across the world’s largest economies all have boosted global M&A activity to climb record levels over the past several years, driving change across industries, geographies and organisations. As a result, innovative strategies and structures are embraced for swift and successful consummation of deals and a ‘win-win’ outcome for both the buyer and seller.
It is both venerated and despised in equal measure. Age is often omitted, curiously forgotten, and regularly maligned. And yet, age is a characteristic or attribute that is recognised globally as deserving of protection under discrimination and equal opportunity legislation. So given this is the one attribute that applies to all of us, at one stage of our lives or another, and the fact that most countries have an ageing population, what are we doing about it? This topic considers why age appears to be off the radar in the diversity and inclusion debate, why it should be on the radar and what can be done to address this.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
Currently, the most crucial question is probably when, if ever, the coronavirus is going to end, at least in the jurisdiction of England and Wales, and what the long term impacts will be on family justice.
This session explores what happens when aging clients change wills, remarry, gift generously, or disinherit heirs — all seemingly within their rights.
31st Annual International Private Client Tax Conference: private wealth seeking shelter and opportunity alike
Mar 10, 2026
Considering the challenges of enforcing rules on illegal online content, this article focuses on the evolving notion of good faith, which already plays an important incentive role under the Digital Services Act. It intends to explore how good faith may act as an active tool for trust, liability and proactive content moderation.
The exponential growth of the digital economy is powered by data centres, which have an immense and often overlooked thirst for two critical resources: energy and water. This session will dissect the intricate legal and regulatory nexus between water rights and energy supply, which are essential for the operation and cooling of these vital infrastructures. Our panel of experts will explore the mounting challenges of securing water permits in water-scarce regions, structuring power purchase agreements (PPAs) that account for water availability, and navigating the complex web of environmental licensing. We will also analyse the contractual risks, ESG imperatives and innovative legal strategies required to ensure the sustainable development and operation of data centres globally.
IBA Annual Conference Copenhagen 2026
Feb 27, 2026
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has long been a jurisdiction where the law said one thing about maritime limitation of liability, but practice often delivered another. That gap is narrowing. With the advent of the new UAE maritime law in 2024, the UAE appears poised to move from a system which recognised limitation in theory to one that can operationalise it in practice, most notably by enabling the constitution of limitation funds before the courts.
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is revolutionising the IT ecosystem in unprecedented ways. With AI developers themselves struggling to fully understand the intricacies of their own model, AI’s inherent risks of unpredictability and bias pose challenges for lawyers and regulators alike. Regulators around the globe have responded with AI regulation but are also introducing new regulations that apply to technology contracting more broadly and which impact providers and users of technology in general. In this evolving landscape, companies need to re-evaluate their contracts. Are they still offering the right level of protection? Do the clauses function as intended? Do they address these new developments? The short answer is: likely not.
In this interactive session, leading industry experts and specialised lawyers will discuss the impact of AI and other regulations on contracts. Through real-world examples and contract clauses, they will guide you on how to update your contracts to meet the challenges ahead.
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
Dec 15, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has substantially changed certain paradigms concerning employment relationships, especially about the interaction between employers and their employees. This article looks at the debates surrounding the issue of the vaccination of employees in the Brazilian context.
The rapid expansion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in business presents both opportunities and challenges for corporations committed to respecting human rights. For example, while AI can enhance workplace safety and improve supply chain integrity, it also risks promoting discrimination and compromising employee privacy. This session will provide guidance to corporate lawyers to help clients avoid human rights pitfalls and harness AI as a force for good.
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
Apr 16, 2026
This conference session addressed one of the most sensitive and increasingly common challenges facing legal, tax and advisory professionals: how to respond when an ageing client becomes vulnerable, less autonomous and their decision-making is questioned, all this in the context of one’s mental capacity and exposure to undue influence. As global populations age and wealth concentrations grow among older individuals, professionals are encountering more cases where diminished capacity, undue influence and unconventional personal decisions converge.
Tina Sobocińska an HR Influencer, Strategic Advisor, and the Founder of HR4future, a C-level HR leader with over 20 years of experience in global organizations such as PwC, DHL, and Schneider Electric. Tina is the Founder and Leader of the Digital HR Champions network and a Board Member of the LiderShe Association. She lectures at SGH Warsaw School of Economics, SWPS University, and Kozminski University. She is a podcaster and an international conference speaker.
Annual IBA Employment and Diversity Law Conference 2026
Aug 21, 2025
The proliferation of advanced surveillance technologies has outpaced the evolution of legal safeguards, potentially resulting in significant threats to privacy, the freedom of expression and other human rights. Emerging regulatory frameworks, however, do impose binding human rights due diligence obligations on companies. This article examines the obligations of corporations, particularly those developing and distributing surveillance tools.
As artificial intelligence continues to transform the legal profession, young lawyers must adapt to stay relevant. This session will address how to harness the power of AI while reinforcing the importance of traditional legal skills and ethical considerations. Explore how ongoing education, the development of soft skills, and a strong ethical foundation can help young lawyers navigate the complexities of the modern legal landscape and thrive amidst technological advancements. Maybe you’ll find that traditional values held by lawyers are not old-fashioned.
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
A virtual conference presented by the European Regional Forum, 25 February 2021, 1200 – 1330 GMT
The impact of AI on design protection, virtual fitting rooms, sustainability, virtual models and influencers, and cost-savings for the industry.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
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