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The Legal Practice Division has developed and published a set of high-level Principles around the collection, use and sharing of digital identity information that could serve as the basis for engaging in dialogue with all relevant stakeholders.
7th Mergers and Acquisitions in the Technology Sector Conference
The LGBTQI+ Law Committee tracks advancements and setbacks in various areas, including discrimination, criminalisation, family rights, recognition and status, identity, among others, and considers the legal implications of cultural and socio-economic issues related to LGBTQI+ interests.
The Committee aims to promote diversity and inclusiveness in the legal profession and society at large by presenting LGBTQI+ ideals and calling attention to legal matters and developments through its sessions, publications, projects and collaborations with other IBA committees, and external parties. The Committee welcomes LGBTQI+ individuals, and all allies and encourages all persons interested in our projects to join the Committee.
Apr 20, 2023
An employee’s gender can play a crucial role during their employment period and the entitlements arising from it. Austrian law so far has only known a binary gender (female and male) system. In 2018, the Austrian Constitutional Court ruled that a person can have different genders other than female or male. Thus, as a result of Constitutional Court case law, a third gender was introduced into the Austrian legal system. The following article discusses the effects this ruling has on current Austrian employment law related to the gender of the employee.
The main areas are patents, trade marks, copyright, trade secrets and unfair competition. Allied to these are a number of related areas including data protection, database protection, privacy, design rights, domain names and the like.
In the entertainment law area the key focus is on the creation, provision and delivery of content in relation to print, films, broadcasts, cable programmes, musical works and sound recordings. There is also involvement with media law including defamation and privacy and authors' rights in a more general sense.
Temporary protection of foreign nationals
The Committee addresses, among others, issues as diverse as sustainable development, biodiversity, air, water, groundwater and waste regulation, climate change, safety in the workplace, protection of endangered species, food safety, environment and trade.
Sep 20, 2021
Coming forward with information that could get someone into trouble has never been easy. To remedy this, states have been increasing their efforts to encourage whistleblowers to report wrongdoings by ensuring their protection from retaliation,1 which, up until recently, has been scarcely regulated, particularly in the European Union.2 The need to enhance the protection of whistleblowers has been thrown into the spotlight as a result of a series of scandals (such as the Panama Papers,3 Cambridge Analytica and Danske Bank scandals) in which whistleblowers played a key role.
As these technologies become more prevalent, regulators and unions are stepping in to protect consumers and artists from potential misuse.
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
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.
Jan 22, 2024
The Cambodian government has introduced new legislation in an attempt to provide a legal identity to the thousands of people in the country who currently lack proof they even exist. The law includes a focus on civil registration – the process of recording births, deaths, marriages and divorces – and is set to be implemented from July 2024. It’ll tackle the issues created where a person doesn’t have a legal identity – for example, limits to their access to public services, human rights and social protections.
32nd Annual Conference on the Globalisation of Investment Funds
The Poverty and Social Development Committee, builds on years of work under various IBA auspices. We engage the legal profession to contribute to UN Sustainability Goal #1: Eradicating Poverty. Our committee advocates for using law to protect individuals and communities from poverty, promoting well-being. We believe legal professionals have a duty to create and apply law for good, preventing exploitation and mitigating harm. Planned projects include a podcast, a practical book for lawyers, a session at the IBA Annual Conference, and supporting NGOs focused on poverty eradication. We invite members to join our efforts.
Mar 26, 2026
This article examines India’s 2025 SIM-binding directions and explains how continuous SIM-linked identity verification aims to curb telecom-enabled cyber fraud, while also raising important technical, operational and privacy considerations.
The Committee focuses on inheritance rights, will making, lifetime giving, trusts, creditor claims, regulatory compliance, charities, taxation, property rights, and conflict of law rules, considering both domestic and cross-border implications. Members benefit from enhanced knowledge, expertise in cross-border issues, global networking, and access to leading experts. The committee addresses international planning, comparative law, and topics like individual tax in cross-border contexts, trusts for planning, international successions, and asset protection. It frequently holds joint sessions with the Taxes committee and other IBA sections, offering a valuable resource for practitioners in private client work.
Oct 18, 2022
As protestors in the Islamic Republic of Iran continue to be shot at by the country’s security forces and women outside of Iran cut off locks of their hair in solidarity with the Iranian women protesting for equal rights, the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) notes parallels between...
IP: practical ways to protect your IP globally
The Art, Cultural Institutions and Heritage Law Committee focuses on all legal aspects pertaining to art, artists, the art market and cultural heritage. The Committee’s interest extends from antiquities all the way to contemporary and ultra-contemporary works of art.
With members from over 50 countries - including experts in museums, galleries, auction houses, and cultural heritage protection - the Committee fosters communication among legal professionals on all matters involving Art and Cultural Property Law. Our goal is to establish a worldwide network of Art and Cultural Property lawyers with information and discussion links to relevant NGOs, institutes of art law, and governmental organisations.
Dec 03, 2025
This article analyses the regulatory challenges faced by Bolivia and Uruguay in regard to balancing the need to preserve traditional foods alongside the need to incorporate food innovation. Based on the concept of novel foods, the article examines how international regulations can both protect and limit access to culturally rooted products within global markets. The opportunities to harmonise food-related identities, sustainability and regulatory developments in South America within this context are also explored.
The speakers will expound on the critical interplay between anticorruption laws and investor protection in investment disputes. Explore how anti-corruption due diligence shapes outcomes in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) disputes and further how it plays a role in ensuring compliance and safeguarding investor interests.
IBA Anti-Corruption Committee Asia Conference
The Business Human Rights (BHR) Committee creates awareness of business and human rights and broader corporate sustainability principles. Preventing and addressing business-related human rights risks is key to ethical business, good governance and increasingly legal compliance for businesses including law firms.
The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, as the core international standard, provide guidance on governments’ duty to protect against human rights harm by business; business’ responsibility to respect human rights; and access to remedy for business-related human rights harm.
The BHR Committee promotes legal skills to advise clients in this area and facilitates dialogue among lawyers to support evolution.
The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) welcomes the renewal of the United Nations Independent Expert (IE) on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). Created in 2016 for an initial period of 3 years, this mandate was set up to respond to a specific pattern of violations directed against persons because of their SOGI.
The International Franchising Committee focuses on the law and business of international franchising. Committee interests include: competition law principles, cross-border sales and licensing issues, the business forms employed and trademark and intellectual property protections required to assure franchising success.
The Committee has served and continues to play an educational role for the legal profession, judiciary and legislators, and enables members to examine and comment upon legislative and regulatory proposals affecting international franchising. Through the committee's regular newsletter, International Franchising Committee members are kept up to date on legal developments, seminars and publications of interest around the world.
Apr 30, 2025
The data protection officer plays a crucial role in ensuring the compliance with data protection laws, transparency requirements and effective data protection practices within organisations subject to the Brazilian General Data Protection Law (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados or LGPD). Acting as a communication bridge between the data controller, data subjects, and the National Data Protection Authority, the DPO plays an essential role in overseeing the protection of personal data. Key aspects of the role include the fulfilment of the formal designation process, attainment of the required qualifications and the need to prevent conflicts of interest.
Urban warfare: challenges for the protection of civilians
The mission of the Committee is to address issues of particular interest to start ups, owner-managed, closely held and family businesses and their legal advisors, and to organisations with ambitions for growth. The Committee's aim is to provide a focus for the different needs of ownership, management and financing of such organisations. Particular focus is placed on: management and ownership issues, finance and the raising of tier one and two capital, shareholder issues and agreements, business succession plans, exit planning, relationships with outside investors, protection of minority interests, dispute monitoring and resolution, the role of professionals in management and advisory roles and relevant issues arising from tax, employment, real estate, estate planning and family law.
A webinar presented by the IBA Family Law Committee. 28 September 2020, 1400 – 1500 BST
• Extraterritorial and national regulations in Africa – how law firms can ensure compliance and protect themselves and clients
• How personal data regulations change business processes in Africa
• How bar associations and regulators can support their members to implement the new regimes
• Can the impact of fake information through social networks, internet and messaging applications be managed by data privacy regulations or are new frameworks required?
• What should an African data protection framework look like in light of the AfCFTA?
Biennial IBA African Regional Forum Conference: future-proofing the African legal profession
Feb 12, 2025
The very concept of the law on privacy revolves around keeping information secure and private. This information is considered to be data and keeping it secure through various protection mechanisms is the purpose that laws on data protection offer in many countries.
This requires an effective and robust data protection regime across the continent. However, the data protection regime across Africa is fragmented, with some countries possessing separate data protection regimes while others have no such regime at all.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
Feb 04, 2026
The UK government has proposed legislation to close loopholes in political finance rules and prevent the influx of dirty money and undue foreign influence.
They take on responsibilities for society to ensure the impartiality of legal process, provide fairness in courts, protect the rights of individuals and take important decisions upon the liberty of citizens.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
Jun 10, 2025
Elon Musk: money, power, influence...safeguards?
Global impact of the Indian Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023
there has been growing recognition in recent years of the public importance of whistleblowers and the misconduct they reveal. In response, several jurisdictions have developed comprehensive regulatory schemes aimed at protecting and even incentivising such individuals.
May 03, 2021
Podcast: Around the world, attacks on journalists and the press are growing exponentially. In this podcast, Global Insight examines the challenges and why freedom of expression and the media is so fundamental to a transparent and progressive society.
A journey on the swings and roundabouts of family business succession. Our panel will discuss the practical steps advisors can take to prevent the preventable and resolve issues inside and outside the family business unit.
30th Annual International Private Client Tax Conference: transforming (un)expected challenges into opportunities for the next 30 years
Sep 28, 2021
The fall of Afghanistan to Taliban forces in mid-August led to a mass exodus from the country as many citizens sought to escape the new regime. Global Insight examines how threats to, and gaps within, the international refugee protection regime may undermine the assistance owed to those who have fled the Taliban.
8th Mergers and Acquisitions in the Technology Sector Conference
Jul 24, 2023
The dynamic adoption of technology has made the transfer and storage of private and personal data convenient, as the majority of transactions are now generated electronically. The exchange of data through such means has globally pushed for regulation of the collection, handling and processing of personal data and information in order to ensure its privacy and protection.
This session will explore the effect of Artificial Intelligence on social media and the AI revolution on families and children internationally, and the effective safeguards, if any such safeguards actually exist.
IBA Annual Conference Copenhagen 2026
Sep 01, 2022
When conducting an internal investigation, which includes a review of employees’ emails among its activities, various constraints regarding labour law and privacy issues must be taken into account. In Italy, the matter is governed by several provisions of different statutes all of which have to be taken into account and have an impact on the way internal investigations and emails review must be carried out.
But what kind of legal protection is needed to adequately protect employees against discrimination on grounds of obesity?
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
The Ukraine refugee crisis has prompted unprecedented public and political support. Global Insight assesses the potential for more compassionate responses to future crises.
The panel of experts will also discuss the issues around the use of copyright protected works in datasets training AI and will examine fair or (un)fair use in respect of potential copyright infringement.
The AI battlefields - How to navigate and overcome the legal challenges
Dec 11, 2025
At the IBA Annual Conference in Toronto, experts in AI policy, synthetic media and digital forensics examined a straightforward but uncomfortable question: ‘Deepfakes – can the AI Act protect Europe?’ The short answer is: not yet, and not on its own.
35th Annual IBA Communications and Competition Law Conference
Dec 15, 2023
Whether it’s for access to clean water, a job or for food, around the world people are forced into sexual acts in exchange for basic commodities.
This session will consider how the UNGPs and other human rights standards have been used to hold corporations accountable for their impacts on climate change and nature, and what lessons lawyers can take from these when advising corporations across sectors. Among other things, it will consider the impacts of climate-related litigation, including national litigation relying on the climate crisis advisory opinions of the ICJ and the IACtHR.
IBA Annual Conference Copenhagen 2026
Mar 16, 2026
Many jurisdictions are legislating to protect nature and mitigate biodiversity loss. In-House Perspective takes stock of developments and the key takeaways for counsel.
This panel will address international patent, licensing and global branding strategies for start-up companies.
IBA 5th Silicon Beach Conference: From Start-Up to Exit
Sep 29, 2025
Harassment, intimidation and undue interference have become part of the job for lawyers defending the rights of communities facing environmental harms. Global Insight looks at how they’re fighting back.
Although international human rights law is relatively settled on the rights of Indigenous peoples, governments around the world vary greatly in protecting and implementing these rights (including the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)) into domestic legal frameworks. This session will explore whether class actions are the only remaining way to effectively protect and respect rights holders in a modern industrialised world.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
Sep 16, 2025
In-house counsel handling privacy and data protection matters are grappling with a raft of legislative changes, court judgments and new guidelines. In-House Perspective takes stock of the privacy landscape.
11th Annual IBA World Life Sciences Conference
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’.
The panel will discuss copyright protections of TV formats and other online content provided through an increasing number of delivery platforms. The panel will also explore jurisdictional differences in copyright protection of the various components of the content. The panel will also address the thorny issue of when you cross the line between fact and fiction and what protection can be put in place to minimise the risk to the creator?
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
This article examines the Advocate General’s opinion WS v Bundesrepublik Deutschland (case C-505/19). It considers the relevance of double jeopardy to Interpol Red Notices, and data protection challenges to Interpol’s activities.
Cross-border and remote work has significantly increased in the post-Covid19 world. Protecting confidential information and enforcing restrictions not to compete, now have a number of challenges, when employees are not bound by a specific territory and can work from anywhere (WFA), thanks to the digital age.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
Non-compete clauses are standard in employment agreements, especially with senior executives, and also in M&A deals. Through non-compete clauses, founders and key executives exiting the business are bound by certain restrictions. This article considers non-compete clauses in India, the United Kingdom and the United States, particularly in the context of the current Covid-19 pandemic.
What are the potential parties entitled to file lawsuits to protect biodiversity?
What is the role of the extractive industries in the context of conservation?
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
As the world faces up to the scale of the climate emergency, Global Insight assesses just how far the Trump administration has gone in undermining the USA’s ability to show environmental leadership.
The second motion will be: ‘this house believes that foreign investors receive adequate protection from investor-state arbitration when investing in Latin America’.
IBA Arb40 Symposium – new horizons in international arbitration
Sep 11, 2024
In Pakistan, intellectual property rights (IPRs) are safeguarded through a legal system which aims to protect and advance innovation, investment and creativity. Patents, trademarks, copyrights and industrial designs are some of the domains covered by the Pakistani IPRs regime. This article will highlight the methods of protection in terms of IPRs in Pakistan and will discuss the procedures relating to disputes related to the infringement of such rights.
In recent years, EU member states have implemented comprehensive whistleblower protection laws under the EU Directive, while the US Department of Justice has strengthened its rewards framework through a new pilot programme. Japan has also moved to enhance protections, following its 2020 reforms to the Whistleblower Protection Act with a further amendment in June 2025 aimed at expanding coverage and reinforcing safeguards.
IBA Anti-Corruption Committee Asia Conference
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