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Feb 10, 2026
This article analyses the Ninth Circuit’s July 31 2025 decision in Epic v Google and the Ninth Circuit’s willingness to bless forward-looking remedies in the regulation of Big Tech.
Overview of the global landscape of insurance claims, offering analysis on emerging patterns, challenges and best practices in effective claims management across the globe.
IBA Insurance Conference 2024: AI in insurance and other global insights
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.
In 2020, the independent advisory body to the Media Freedom Coalition, the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom, published an advisory report ‘A Pressing Concern: Protecting and Promoting Press Freedom by Strengthening Consular Support to Journalists at Risk’ examining the existing State approaches respecting consular assistance for journalists at risk abroad, and proposes a new paradigm of justice and accountability.
Every day, journalists and media personnel around the world fall victim to arbitrary detention, violence or intimidation on account of their work. These attacks resonate beyond their individual cases, being not only attacks on free expression, but also exponential assaults that silence the subjects of the reporting and deprive the public of their stories. By threatening and targeting journalists, States seek to send a dissuasive message, suppressing those who would report on their wrongdoings. According to Reporters Without Borders, as of 2022, over 500 journalists are arbitrarily detained worldwide. This is the highest number of journalists detained in connection with their work that they have ever recorded.
This event, organised by the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute who act as Secretariat to the High Level Panel, will feature members of the High Level Panel and guest speakers in conversation on the role of international law in finding concerted approaches to address this mounting issue.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
Apr 20, 2026
This article examines the development of pro bono advocacy in Brazil following the enactment of OAB Provision 166/2015, which established a regulatory framework legitimising gratuitous legal services, and analyses how legal rankings, awards and diversity commitments have incentivised law firms to structure institutional pro bono programs that complement public legal aid and advance access to justice.
Cartel-busting, long the mainstay of antitrust enforcement, faces existential challenges in many jurisdictions. Leniency pipelines are no longer producing a steady flow of cases, but are slowing to a trickle, as booming private litigation and the rise of class actions in a number of countries make whistleblowing ever less attractive to cartellists. Electronic communications result in what is at times an overwhelming volume of material to be sifted by all those involved. And artificial intelligence is spawning a wealth of new ways in which markets can be fixed, many of which are hard to detect, and some of which may be beyond the reach of existing laws. As legislators and agencies are reconsidering their amnesty/immunity regimes, the focus in enforcing cartel laws is moving beyond traditional sell-side cartel behaviour into labor and other “purchasing” markets. What is happening to international cartels and globally coordinated enforcement action in the meantime? This session will explore how enforcers, private practice and business around the globe are responding to these and other trends in cartel enforcement.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
By Sungjean Seo. How evidence is best presented in international arbitration and the IBA rules on evidence
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
Amid the tensions between leading digital platforms and traditional news businesses, the Australian government has produced a novel proposal to use competition law to require designated digital platforms – initially Google and Facebook – to compensate news media businesses for news content. This article explains the origins of the proposed News Media Bargaining Code and developments after the proposal, including reactions from digital platforms.
IBA Global Insight August/September 2017 - Chinese investment overseas, IBA Pro Bono Award nominees, law firm management webinar series, IBA Annual Conference 2017 Sydney, Google fined by EU for anti-competitive behaviour, China Working Group, India Contact Group, Code of Conduct survey
May 09, 2023
One of the most important challenges after the signature of the peace process in Colombia with the FARC guerilla (the ‘Peace Process’) is how the government, and the society as a whole, can assure ex-guerrilla members that they will be able to reintegrate effectively into a digital driven society where information about their past, and about the crimes they committed, is just one click away.
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
Perspectives on a ‘right to be forgotten’ in the midst of the reintegration of ex-guerrilla members in Colombia.
Second, many jurisdictions have moved to force digital platforms like Google and Facebook to compensate news organisations for the use of their content.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
Whether the legal profession will successfully navigate the myriad of problems and opportunities arising in the digital space remains to be seen. AI ranks at the top of the IBA’s strategic plan and many other organisations’ priorities.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
Mar 12, 2025
In the competitive legal market, law firms invest substantial resources in marketing. However, many firms fail to prioritise the ultimate goal of these investments: converting leads into clients. A necessary key performance indicator (KPI) to measure marketing success is the number of leads generated, as leads represent potential business opportunities. However, while generating leads is crucial, success is ultimately determined by how effectively those leads turn into paying clients. Without conversion, marketing efforts become a sunk cost rather than a growth driver.
Drawing on her leadership at Google Cloud Magda Dziewguć will highlight why Poland has emerged as a premier European hub for technological competence and digital transformation.
Annual IBA Employment and Diversity Law Conference 2026
By Byung-Woo Im. Judges and arbitrators as adjudicators and settlement facilitators, and the Singapore Convention on Enforcement of Mediated Settlements
Where does the profession rank in public esteem? Is its position changing?
And, most importantly, what, if anything, can Bars do about it?
16th Annual Bar Leaders' Conference
Interview with Renée Duplantis, PhD, former TD MacDonald Chair in Industrial Economics at the Competition Bureau.
President Xi’s China is now a major player at the United Nations, supporting peacekeeping operations and emphasising global cooperation to protect human rights. But there are fears that China’s more active role could erode multilateral intervention and even lead to the demise of international human rights laws.
On 1 November, thousands of Google employees staged a mass walkout demanding the company overhaul its policies for handling workplace sexual harassment following several high-profile scandals. A week later, the company bowed to demands and vowed to end its practice of mandatory arbitration in a move that has reverberated around Silicon Valley and rekindled the issue of employee rights in the #MeToo era.
There have been some major developments in Austrian competition law regarding big tech companies. The aspects of particular interest are a tighter scrutiny of tech mergers and an enforcement initiative as to the terms and conditions used by digital platforms. This article first gives an overview of the respective new Austrian merger control thresholds that cover the acquisition of tech startups. It then analyses the investigation of Amazon by the Austrian Federal Competition Authority
Referral advocates and barristers are exposed to threats and attack because they work at the front line of the justice system. The cab-rank rule to which the referral Bar adheres means that they represent everyone who needs representation however unpopular or unattractive their character or cause.
IBA Annual Conference Copenhagen 2026
David Burgess, Publishing Director of the Legal 500, examines how the Covid-19 crisis has affected the research process and provides insights into what firms and general counsel’s priorities are, and indeed should be, over the next 12 months. It is clear that firms that are heavily client-centric will emerge from the crisis with increased opportunities.
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
Jan 09, 2024
This article reviews the recent European Union regulations, namely the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act which regulate digital platforms with operations in Europe, from different perspectives. Likewise, the article revises some regulatory projects in Brazil and the United States, before turning to Argentina, where the regulation of the intermediaries’ responsibility is an issue of current relevance. Due to the lack of an ex-ante regulation regarding these topics, this article goes over some of the cases treated with consumer protection regulations as well as with antitrust law and data privacy provisions.
Welcome to your very own IBA Festival, where nature moves indoors and the atmosphere is pure magic. Wander through our festival grounds, savour street-food favourites, and take a moment to connect, unwind and soak up the elegant festival vibe. Then when the music calls, step into the Disco Forest and let the rhythm take over!
Guests should use the Postbyn entrance to the Villa Copenhagen.
IBA Annual Conference Copenhagen 2026
Personal tales from the wild side part 2: the gang are back with more insights across the globe, focusing on navigating through the Covid-19 crisis and preparing for the new normality. A webinar presented by the IBA Law Firm Management Committee. 9 June 2020, 1300-1415 BST.
Tales from the wild side, a lawyers survival guide to COVID-19 with personal reflections from leading legal practitioners and industry specialists from across the globe with a mix of professional and more intimate content
Jan 18, 2024
The scale at which the tech giants operate – and their significant presence in our lives – makes holding them to account a challenge. Global Insight investigates signs that governments, activists, unions and courts – and even tech companies themselves – are, however, beginning to do so.
Users of Law firm websites mainly consist of students, head-hunters, business people, potential clients and anonymous visitors from different locations, with varying purposes. This article looks at how a potential client’s visit to your website can convert into a request for a proposal.
Apr 29, 2025
For many law firms, international legal work is already part of their practice. Whether it is advising foreign investors, navigating cross-border transactions or handling disputes with an international element, legal teams often engage beyond their own jurisdictions. But true internationalisation is more than just taking on occasional cross-border matters.
While the academic study of leadership roles found in a board of directors and management is not new, it is almost unheard of in Cambodia. This is not surprising given the country’s entire corporate governance and economic structure are still evolving.
Developments in executive compensation have resulted in more legislation and regulations on executive pay being introduced over the past two decades than in the previous 150 years. Ever since the last financial crisis, executive compensation has remained high on the agenda of many authorities. When there are concerns about executive remuneration, legislators first of all try to find the remedy through increasing the level of transparency. Such a transparency measure, currently favoured by various countries
May 16, 2024
Social media platforms are increasingly facing lawsuits alleging that their users are being harmed.
Jul 01, 2021
After a brief foray into politics, Oscar Hållén decided to get some real-life experience in the legal world. He speaks to In-House Perspective about his role at one of the world’s largest private Fintechs, the merits of regulation and why all general counsel should take time to wake up and smell the Fika.
Jun 01, 2022
As witnessed in a series of studies, analyses and papers published over the course of 2019−2020, an international consensus was emerging that the public policy concerns arising consistently in connection with digital platforms either required a fundamental rethink of how competition policy should address such concerns or provide the rationale for the creation of a sui generis regulatory regime. If the latter approach were to be chosen, this would mean that competition policy would be left with a complementary role to play, and one that would logically be directed at new modes of commercial behaviour. The genesis of such a public policy choice in the European Union was brought into sharp focus by the protracted competition law investigation into various commercial practices of Google in internet search by the European Commission (the ‘Commission’), which had been ongoing since 2010 and which had to wait to be resolved by the vindication of the Commission’s 2017 decision before the General Court as late as November 2021. In response to the demands by EU Member States that appropriate action be taken to compensate for the slow and arguably ineffective application of EU competition rules, a draft regulatory package was introduced by the Commission in December 2020 that would regulate key problematic business practices of large digital platforms across the EU. Whereas the so-called Digital Services Act was to deal with critical public policy issues that were consumer-facing, it was the Digital Markets Act (DMA) that laid out the unique regime that would apply economic regulation to large digital platforms. The object of this article is to: (1) provide an outline of the defining elements of the DMA; and (2) identify key aspects of that legislation, whether from a substantive, procedural or institutional point of view, where the intended outcomes of the DMA might be compromised.
Jun 22, 2021
In 2021, the United Kingdom’s CMA (Competition and Markets Authority) – like other competition agencies worldwide – faces a future where competition law enforcement and policy are very different from what we have been used to for decades. Quite apart from its new post-Brexit functions (taking on cross-border merger and cartel cases that would previously have been reserved to the European Commission), the CMA is having to deal with a panoply of new challenges. First, the Covid-19 pandemic, which has touched every aspect of people’s lives, has inevitably had an impact – changing external priorities, and changing the way the authorities deal with them. Second, there are the effects of digitalisation of the economy which, unlike the worst of the pandemic, are likely to be long-lasting: immense benefits for competition and consumers, but also major new issues in competition enforcement, which seem different in scale, and perhaps different in kind, from those thrown up by earlier waves of technological change. Third, and less visible but perhaps most fundamental, there are questions about the ability to command public legitimacy and support in a world where market competition is increasingly questioned as a solution to economic problems. This article discusses ways of dealing with these challenges.
Feb 04, 2021
The US Department of Justice has launched an antitrust suit against Google, alleging the tech giant used its size to unlawfully maintain its position in online search and advertising. Global Insight assesses the action in the context of previous cases.
May 20, 2025
An insightful discussion with Imbi Jürgen
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