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Dec 11, 2020
In early October, tech giant Google announced it had set aside over $1bn to pay media outlets to display curated content on its news apps, initially as part of a three-year programme. Google will pay publishers it chooses on a market-by-market basis to provide blurbs for the company’s Google News Showcase app (‘Showcase’) and to give readers free access to certain paywalled articles.
While the e-privacy regulation are not finalised in most jurisdictions; businesses are struggling to comply with the non-harmonised approached on cookies around the globe.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
The Family Law Committee provides a unique forum for members from different countries and different legal systems to exchange views, meet during conferences and debate issues concerning the substantive and procedural aspects of family law. The work of the committee has focused on developments of international significance, involving all aspects of family law, for example, marriage, divorce, inheritance, human rights in the family, adoption, international child abduction, etc. There is a close interaction within the committee and its members through newsletters and via e-mail.
Moderator
22nd Annual International Mergers & Acquisitions Conference
Role of lawyers, false news and systemic racism
The panel will discuss new strategies implemented by shopping mall developers/tenants to persuade clients to visit the stores as the e-commerce sales increase rapidly.
13th Annual IBA Real Estate Investments Conference
The Media Law Committee focuses on sharing knowledge among members and stakeholders on legal matters related to the media industry. This includes both content and communication, which has become increasingly international due to global media networks. As media law expands beyond print, radio, and TV to new media such as e-commerce, the committee fosters cooperation with journalists and other media professionals. We regularly address legal developments through programs at the IBA Annual Conference and newsletters, reflecting the evolving nature of media law in a globalised world.
The eighth edition of the IBAHRI Covid-19 Human Rights Monitor covers topics including: an alarming increase in violence against women during the pandemic, the heightened risk to those who live in informal settlements and threats to freedom of assembly worldwide.
Despite the predictions that they would fall out of favour over time, the growth in credit funds has continued to accelerate, with record amounts being raised by managers. This workshop will consider trends in fundraising and some of the unique issues affecting managers raising and investing in credit funds.
21st Annual International Conference on Private Investment Funds
The IBA Technology Law Committee brings together lawyers addressing the evolving legal challenges of modern technologies. The Committee's mandate covers a wide range of tech-related areas, supported by eight subcommittees: AI and Robotics, Data Law, Technology Disputes, Fintech, Life Sciences, Outsourcing and Managed Services, Platforms, E-commerce & Social Media and Cybersecurity.
Each subcommittee focuses on specific issues, such as intellectual property, data protection, financial regulation, medical technologies, and cybersecurity, helping professionals navigate the complex legal landscape of emerging technologies.
A virtual conference presented by the Private Equity Subcommittee of the IBA Corporate and M&A Law Committee, 7-8 October 2020
The Indigenous Peoples Committee addresses development issues affecting land and people from the legal perspective of those impacted, rather than developers, governments, or businesses. The committee aims to enhance communication among lawyers worldwide on issues concerning indigenous peoples, and establish links with organisations like the UN Sub-Committee on Indigenous Peoples and the World Bank. The Committee plans to publish a regular newsletter and is seeking an editor, along with volunteers, particularly from outside Canada. To reduce travel costs, the committee will utilise e-communication to advance its projects, programs, and publications.
Aug 22, 2023
A report on a session from the 19th Annual IBA Anti-Corruption Conference, held 13–14 June in Paris, France.
The Young Lawyers' Committee (YLC) aims to help young lawyers enhance their skills and networks through IBA programmes, conferences, and projects, while offering fresh ideas to the IBA. The Committee's activities promote the IBA among young lawyers globally and highlight membership benefits.
Key initiatives include the Young Lawyer Training Courses, which connect young lawyers with senior professionals, and encouraging involvement in various IBA divisions. The YLC also fosters communication through newsletters and e-bulletins, reporting on activities and sharing articles from young lawyers worldwide on relevant legal topics. Our goal is to actively engage young lawyers in global discussions and IBA activities.
Nov 14, 2023
The event will take place on Friday 8 December 2023 from 1400–1800 and will focus on the role that legal professionals and organisations play in addressing the key international challenges posed by climate change.
**Accredited by the Law Society of Hong Kong with 1 CPD point**
Being an effective legal advocate requires a combination of writing, oral and interpersonal skills. The panellists at this session will discuss the top lessons that they’ve learned in becoming a better oral advocate, in transforming into a more skilled writer and in dealing with others, whether superiors, adversaries or judges. The panellists will also speak as to how they have evolved as attorneys over the years and what they would tell the younger versions of themselves coming out of law school.
Moderator:
- Alberto Mata Rodriguez Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG, Madrid; Co-Vice Chair, IBA Young Lawyers' Committee
Panellists:
- Mark Hsu Hawkins Parnell & Young, New York City, New York; Co-Vice Chair, IBA Young Lawyers’ Outreach Subcommittee
- Arush Khanna Numen Law Offices, New Delhi; Website Officer, IBA Young Lawyers' Committee
The Asset Management and Investment Funds Committee provides a convenient forum for its members to consider current developments in the global investment funds industry, including both regulatory and product development. It also produces newsletters and occasional e-bulletins for its members. In addition to its programmes at the annual IBA conferences, the committee presents an annual conference on Globalisation of Investment Funds normally held in June, which celebrated its 30th successful year in 2020. The event attracts delegates from approximately 30 countries, and features presentations by senior regulators from around the world, senior executives of top fund managers and other fund service providers as well as from leading practitioners in the field.
Mar 01, 2023
This article will discuss some of the significant aspects of regulating payment companies in China, such as AliPay which provides alternative payment solutions such as open online virtual accounts, allowing the transfer of funds via a customer’s virtual account and bank account for the purpose of settling online transactions.
This workshop will focus on the flavours of platform arrangements that sponsors are using to attract capital in a challenged environment.
23rd Annual International Conference on Private Investment Funds
A Instituto de Direitos Humanos da Associação Internacional de Advogados (“IBAHRI”) e o Iniciativa Anti-tortura (“ATI”) expressam grande preocupação e condenam a decisão do Governo brasileiro de estabelecer severas limitações ao trabalho do Mecanismo Nacional de Prevenção e Combate à Tortura (“Mecanismo Nacional”). A medida representa uma perigosa redução da proteção dos indivíduos privados de liberdade.
This session will focus on different types of transactions and investments in technology, mainly in Legal Tech. Discussions will be held among other things: in innovation centres and clusters, sponsorship on booster ventures, start-up initiatives, fin-tech projects, business incubators and new trends and emblematic cases.
Biennial IBA Latin American Regional Forum conference
Mergers and acquisitions often present strategic imperatives and pose unavoidable compliance risks. Today, the compliance challenges involved in keeping M&A and similar strategic investments as viable options for corporate growth have risen. And spreading regulatory requirements are calling for effective and efficient pre-deal due diligence, even more so than before.
What are today´s due diligence best practices to identify anti-corruption exposure in target companies? What can be learned from this international preventive compliance management system module for ‘new’ compliance risk categories such as ESG, export compliance and other evolving compliance risks.
This panel will discuss actual capabilities and compare them with emerging necessities with in-house representatives and investment experts.
19th Annual IBA Anti-Corruption Conference
Apr 16, 2021
Online or e-dispute resolution has long been a beneficial option for resolving business disagreements, even before the spread of Covid-19. With the current disruption and bans on travel and meetings in many countries, using remote mediation means that companies still have a means of solving problems and moving their businesses on. The positive experience of e-dispute resolution is such that it is likely to remain long after the pandemic has gone.
Year by year, the importance of e-commerce continues to grow. In many countries, it has become the dominant method for both consumers and businesses to purchase and sell goods and services. Cross-border transactions are the norm in this space, with significant implications for both regulation and dispute resolution. How can e-commerce platforms ensure compliance with competing data privacy rules?
IBA Annual Litigation Forum: Litigation in the digital era - challenges and opportunities
Florida State University and the International Bar Association are offering a new exciting opportunity to participate in a ground-breaking, distance learning, international law course.
Revisit the scope of entertainers and athletes for tax treaty purposes (through article 17 OECD MTC) mainly in light of new activities on digital activities carried on by e-gamers, influencers and celebrities for instance.
Revisit the rules of sourcing and allocation between States with performance rendered in different States (international tournaments) with a special focus on e-games and digital activities for tax treaty purposes.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
By Pamela R Kovacs. Editor’s Note – Pro Bono Committee e-Bulletin
10th Annual IBA World Life Sciences Conference
A discussion in relation to instruments that customarily initiate M&A processes, including an analysis of best practices and pitfalls. Discussion subjects will include: the effects of binding and nonbinding documents; competition considerations (triggering events for merger control); surviving clauses (non-disclosure, confidentiality and disputes); choice of law; diligence and clean team considerations; information exchange; and the importance of process letters.
Mergers and acquisitions in Latin America
Jul 06, 2023
The pharmaceutical supply chain in India has traditionally relied on small neighbourhood pharmacies for last-mile distribution. Such pharmacies have proliferated to the point where there is often one on each street, and several within a square mile, in every city. Access to brick-and-mortar pharmacies has therefore generally not been a problem in India, at least in most urban areas, and the industry has prospered over the years.
• Exploring how courts and arbitral tribunals are interpreting force majeure (FM) clauses beyond severe economic injury
• Analysing how the Covid-19 pandemic and the current geopolitical climate is impacting the interpretation and enforcement of FM clauses
• Understanding the varying approaches taken by courts across jurisdictions to determine whether unforeseeable events, such as pandemics, geopolitical shifts or cyber-attacks, fall under the FM umbrella
• Assessing the impact of FM clauses on international trade and investment agreements in light of the rapidly changing global and political landscape, including economic sanctions
Biennial IBA African Regional Forum Conference: future-proofing the African legal profession
Jan 06, 2022
An overview of the recent articles posted by the IBA Pro Bono Committee in January 2022.
The panel includes Jordan Matter, an American YouTuber with over 24 million subscribers and over 8 billion views, and Yazmin Yeara, a successful Dominican Republic on-line influencer and cosmetic product developer.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
Apr 05, 2022
The webcasting industry has played an important role in the development of the digital economy and the emerging entertainment ecosystem in recent years, but this development has highlighted new issues in tax compliance for the live e-commerce industry.
Metaverse is growing exponentially with increasing support from investors and business entities. It provides real-life experiences in a simulated environment with unmatched potential for entertainment and earnings, which can be divided into two sorts of platforms in general. The first involves leveraging nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and cryptocurrencies to create blockchain-based metaverse startups. People can buy virtual products and create their own settings on web platforms. The second group uses the metaverse to describe virtual worlds in general, where people might meet for business or enjoyment. In addition, an array of technology solutions for closing contracts and solving disputes is available with the blockchain technology.
These activities trigger a number of legal issues, as for instance the applicable law, securities issues, NFTs and crypto currency regulations, IP enforcement and brand protection, tax issues, contract and tort laws, defamations laws and dispute resolution procedures.
Our panel of experts will discuss these and other aspects to get a clear picture as to what you might come across when exploring the Metaverse field.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
Twice a year, Florida State University and the International Bar Association offer the exciting opportunity to participate in a ground-breaking, distance learning, international law course. The application process included a 500-1000 word essay on what applicants currently consider to be the most pressing concern in International Human Rights Law. There was no right answer to this question, and we encouraged students to select a topic based on their current experience and interests.
Join us at https://live.remo.co/e/iba-global-showcase-session-netw-8
May 06, 2025
The International Bar Association (IBA) Legal Policy & Research Unit (LPRU) has released the next episode in its Inspirational Legal Women podcast. It features Alessandra Nascimento Silva e Figueiredo Mourão, founding partner of Nascimento e Mourão Advogados in São Paulo, Brazil.
How do AWS, Google, and Microsoft deal with issues like choice of law and forum, liability, service levels, termination, and more?
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
Apr 29, 2024
The international trade of medical products through e-commerce platforms presents numerous challenges and opportunities. This article explores the complexities and implications of global freedom in the commercialisation of medical products, focusing on regulatory hurdles, ethical concerns, and the balance between accessibility and safety
Apr 22, 2025
Japan has finally started to make tangible progress in regard to reforming its value-added tax (VAT) framework to address the challenges brought about by the rapid expansion of cross-border e-commerce. Ongoing discussions are focused in particular on expanding the platform taxation regime to cover the cross-border sale of goods facilitated by online platforms offering fulfilment services, as well as on revising the de minimis import VAT exemption for low-value imported goods.
Marilu Capparelli is one of the managing directors of the EMEA Google Legal Department, she leads an international team of lawyers located in different countries and is also leading a copyright litigation strategy area in EU. Marilu is an Italian qualified lawyer with experience in major international law firms, at the Court of Justice of the European Union and as an in-house counsel. Before joining Google, she was Head of Legal and Government Affairs at eBay Inc, Skype and Paypal.
Annual IBA Employment and Diversity Law Conference 2024
Nov 15, 2021
The borderless nature of the digital economy and electronic transactions has always been a challenge for law makers and enforcement bodies where their authority is generally limited to a jurisdictional territory. In this article, we discuss three recent developments of the Thai governmental authorities trying to tackle these challenges: VAT on overseas e-service providers; criminal complaints against an overseas cryptocurrency trading platform; and a draft royal decree regulating e-commerce platforms.
A joint open meeting of the IBA Global Employment Institute, Employment and Industrial Relations Law Committee, and the Diversity and Equality Law Committee, held to discuss matters of interest and future activities.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
El International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI), en conjunto con la Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO México), ha lanzado el documento, Violaciones, derechos humanos y contexto: herramientas propuestas para documentar e investigar.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
Dec 12, 2023
The law on e-transactions in Vietnam was recently amended in 2023. In this article we have analysed seven outstanding regulations in the amendment, namely: the scope of applications; data and data message; e-certificates; the use of e-signature and trust services; legal framework for applying e-contracts; synchronising the rights and obligations of the owner of the information system and the use of e-transaction accounts; and regulations on data collection, management and sharing among state agencies.
An open committee business meeting where all members and Officers are invited to learn more about the current and upcoming activities and developments of the Committee.
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
Dec 01, 2023
On May 4, 2023, the IBA’s Litigation Committee held an interactive session which touched on various topics involving e-commerce. The panel was chaired by Andreas Frischknecht of Chaffetz Lindsey acting as moderator along with experts from different jurisdictions, namely Karina Goldberg (Attorney-at-law, Ferro Castro Neves Daltro & Gomide Advogados, São Paulo), Antoine Laniez (Attorney-at-law, NautaDutilh, Luxembourg City), Francisco Javier Muñoz (Legal counsel, Mercado Libre, Buenos Aires) and Lucinda Orr (an employed barrister with Enyo Law, London).
Oct 20, 2021
A note from the Chair for the October 2021 Class Actions e-Bulletin
Apr 29, 2022
With the pandemic hitting hard, online shopping has become the new normal. The pandemic accelerated the shift towards a more digital world and fuelled e-commerce growth, not just on a business-to-consumer basis but on a consumer-to-consumer basis as goods and services become more ‘fluid’ and transactions become less territorial. This article considers the hazards of using e-commerce platforms for various transactions.
Also, it will address how sports events´ owners and producers are dealing with “active” fans who want to choose what, when and how to watch and how much the new players - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google, Tik Tok, Kwai and other digital media – are willing to pay for sports content and how will their payback be.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
Nov 02, 2023
Telemedicine, despite being used in practice, was not explicitly and specifically addressed in Czech law. However, new legislation to introduce the concept of telemedicine into the Czech legal framework is now on the horizon.
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IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
May 03, 2023
The e-commerce industry has seen a sharp rise in recent years, largely due to global digitisation of economies with rampant adoption and development of technology. A further boost was provided to the industry by the Covid-19 pandemic as the world resorted to online shopping to acquire even the basic necessities.
Almost two years after the full applicability of the GDPR, the Italian Data Protection Authority has sanctioned two operators, Eni Gas e Luce and TIM. The fines were raised in connection to absence or inadequacy of business operating procedures concerning the processing of clients’ data for marketing purposes
This article considers the draft Regulation on E-Waste published by the Nigerian Communications Commission to regulate the management and control of e-waste in the telecoms sector. Its focus on reuse, recycling and other forms of recovery of used telecoms’ equipment presents a sectoral commitment to tackling the growing menace of e-waste in Nigeria.
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