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Feb 04, 2021
In September 2020, a father lodged a complaint in the United Kingdom High Court against social media platform YouTube’s parent company Google, alleging that the multinational company had collected children’s data without parental consent. In doing so, the claimant argues, the company has breached the UK’s Data Protection Act and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
This expert panel will share insights about the use of social media when promoting drugs and medical devices. Learn best practices to use when advising companies on how to satisfy competing regulations.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
The Women Lawyers’ Committee (WLC) aspires to empower its 3000 highly valued members from all over the world to engage, network and share knowledge. The committee was originally an interest group which was introduced as an IBA constituent in 1996 to allow efficient global networking of women lawyers.
WLC aims to level the playing field in the legal profession and inspire leaders to work to achieve gender parity. It's 20 committee officers create awareness tools to help the profession achieve this goal, while at the same time facilitate an efficient global network for women lawyers to connect and develop business and expertise, supported by its Advisory board.
We welcome members with all genders and encourage all perspectives and remain a committee dedicated to the cause of women lawyers.
Sep 09, 2024
Land value tax is a wealth tax payable by landowners in Australia. It is one of three forms of taxation payable by real estate investors in Australia.
The rapidly evolving application of Artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine and healthcare has been raising regulatory and contractual challenges relating to privacy, intellectual property and data ownership, data breaches and liability. The session will focus on the major issues that are being currently discussed by purchasers, vendors, distributors and regulators of AI-solutions in the sensitive healthcare sector. Speakers will include the different players and jurisdictions, enabling the understanding of the current AI commercialisation and implementation models and solutions.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
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.
Hopefully, this debate will provide food for thought for both managing partners as to the best way of retaining the value of retiring partners and equally importantly the thought processes that retiring partners should go through about the value they can best add.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
The Human Rights Law Committee (HRLC) aims to promote human rights in all areas of the legal profession, as well as in the broader community. We welcome your contributions, either through newsletter article submissions, becoming an officer, or presenter at conferences. The value of membership is most enhanced through active participation, so please get involved.
Nov 18, 2024
Legislative Decree No 1623, enacted on 4 August 2024, has introduced significant changes to Peru’s framework on value-added tax, extending its application to digital services and intangible goods acquired by Peruvian consumers from foreign providers. This reform addresses the expanding digital economy, imposing new tax obligations on non-resident providers and payment intermediaries, particularly financial institutions.
10th Annual IBA World Life Sciences Conference
The African Regional Forum aims to enhance the value and significance of the International Bar Association (IBA) by addressing issues unique to African lawyers. The Forum focuses on cooperation with bar associations, supporting legal development, and promoting IBA participation across Africa. We organise regional conferences, workshops, and seminars to foster specialisation and partnerships within the legal profession. The Forum also works to educate about legal rights, strengthen sub-regional bars, and facilitate exchanges between developed and developing bars. We play a crucial role in training, legal reforms, and fostering collaboration with government and other regional fora.
This session will explore:
• the origin of the value for money regime;
• UK consumer duty;
• EU retail investment strategy: where are we now?
IBA Global Challenges and Opportunities for the Asset Management Industry Conference
The Forum for Government and Public Lawyers provides a platform for government and public lawyers worldwide. As the global voice of the legal profession, the IBA supports these lawyers and connects them with both public and private sector practitioners. The Forum focuses on the role of government and public lawyers, covering public service values, ethics, specialist skills, and public international law developments. Membership is open to Bar Associations that are IBA members and individual members of any Division. The Forum is especially relevant to practitioners working in government or public entities at domestic, regional, or international levels.
Nov 18, 2024
The UK’s civil sanctions enforcement agency has opened investigations into at least 52 suspected breaches of Russian oil sanctions
This session will examine the legal and regulatory risks governing the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical devices and impacts of coming AI-related legislation on the development and marketing of medical devices.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
The Antitrust Section provides an international forum for thought leadership with respect to antitrust law developments and the profession through submissions to competition agencies, training programs/missions, developing the law through our conferences, publications, and interaction with antitrust enforcement authorities and the profession.
In addition, there is a strong commitment to bring together international practitioners to facilitate closer working relationships. The Section is increasingly relied upon by government officials and members of the private sector for its expertise and practical input into antitrust developments, including through its Working Group submissions.
Andrea Lee and Kaleigh Duvernet argue that companies need to continue developing and implementing initiatives to attract and retain a diverse workforce or fall behind in economic growth. They discuss initiatives to enable progression in this area, such as diversifying management, working with external organisations committed to fostering diversity, mentoring and addressing pay gap issues.
Shortages of medicines and medical devices are caused not only by manufacturing challenges, but also by distribution unavailability, due to issues at distribution chain level. This session will examine the phenomena within the distribution chain that can lead to shortages of medicine and medical devices, such as parallel trade. The session will also explore different approaches to deal with such shortages by several jurisdictions, including the imposition of regulated prices, blacklist, export controls/restrictions, government mandated distribution and challenging product registration rules.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
The Pro Bono Committee promotes pro bono legal services globally, through the IBA Pro Bono Declaration, the exchange of information and initiatives, and by promoting best practices.
Pro bono work supports access to justice where this right is not fully supported by legal aid. The Committee provides resources, including digital content and articles highlighting pro bono efforts by legal professionals, which can be found below.
The Committee is committed to advancing pro bono work across the profession and welcomes new members passionate about contributing to this mission.
Oct 07, 2021
Allowing high-reliability and low latency, 5G wireless technology is said to be a critical new generation network that will support the economy’s digital transformation and drive innovation. Healthcare is one of the key sectors targeted by 5G and may benefit from its deployment throughout the patient’s pathway, with enhanced remote health services.
Distressed M&A transactions arise when companies face debt and contingent liabilities that are too big or when markets are shut. These can be terrific opportunities to acquire at attractive pricing. However, making these investments requires speed, cash, clever tactics and an iron stomach to take risks, often without diligence. This panel of senior M&A lawyers and actual investors will elaborate on how these deals are done – investments in and mergers with overlevered companies, as well as taking control by buying or providing debt – walking through actual cases to demonstrate key factors and tactics for actual transactions.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
The International Construction Projects Committee is a global, diverse group of lawyers focused on the promotion and understanding of construction law across the globe. We cover all aspects of construction and engineering projects and foster the exchange of experiences from practitioners around the world.
The Committee serves those active in both domestic construction markets and international projects, and offer extensive experience in both contentious and non-contentious construction issues. The Committee meets annually at the IBA Annual Conference and the International Construction Projects Committee retreat, and biennially at the Conference on Construction Projects, providing opportunities to connect and share knowledge.
If you are a member, join our LinkedIn group.
Jun 13, 2024
Over the past year, the EU has faced multiple rule of law challenges involving various Member States - and criticism of its responses.
These high expectations extend to
corporate purpose, corporate impact and capital allocation and
raise the question of whether a short-term focus on maximizing
stock prices and shareholder value has had unintended
consequences, undermined sustainable and resilient business
models and even reduced long-term profi tability.
7th Annual Corporate Governance Conference
On 2 July 2018, the European Commission (EC) launched fresh infringement proceedings against Poland regarding a new law aimed at, the EC says, ‘undermining judicial independence’.
The law lowers the retirement age of Supreme Court judges from 70 to 65 and will see approximately one-third of justices forced to leave. The implications are profound.
Construction disputes often include many low value claims (eg, low value variations which are disputed in principle and/or quantum).
8th Biennial Conference on Construction Projects from Conception to Completion
May 11, 2023
This article discusses how environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors and human rights considerations are increasingly influencing mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals worldwide, and the importance of an ESG focus on due diligence, integration and disclosure throughout the transaction process. The article explores: the impact of ESG and human rights factors on deal value and corporate reputation; the nature of ESG due diligence; incorporating ESG factors into M&A transaction documents; and best practices for ESG and human rights disclosure in M&A transactions.
Over the last decade, the curtailment of funding for justice systems around the world has had serious consequences for the administration of justice. Many jurisdictions have witnessed a degrading in the courts estate; administrative systems have struggled to cope with demand; recruitment and retention within many areas of the justice system is adversely affected due to funding concerns; and publicly funded legal systems have been subject to repercussive cuts.
These effects compromise access to justice and diminish respect for the justice system as a whole. Rather than justice being seen as a valuable commodity worthy of investment, it is too often seen as an unwelcome cost which should be subject to imposed decline. This has concerning repercussions for both the state and its citizens, creating real impediments to the rule of law and meaningful access to justice.
The scope of legal aid systems across the world varies. As legal aid is a crucial vehicle by which the fundamental protection of human rights may be guaranteed, and the availability of legal aid is inextricably linked to access to justice, it is the responsibility of governments to guarantee that legal aid systems ensure that this protection is practical and effective, including the provision of adequate funding. This session will explore, through a number of case studies, the consequences of failing to invest in a country’s justice system and the response of the legal profession in safeguarding access to justice and the rule of law.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
Jun 02, 2025
3D printing can be used to create customised medical devices using patient-specific data. This article addresses the regulatory status of this transformative technique and its development in Argentina. Although there are no regulations specific to 3D printing used in the manufacturing of medical devices, the National Administration of Drugs, Food and Medical Devices has published a guide outlining the key technical considerations for products developed through additive manufacturing, a broad category that includes 3D printing within its scope.
The issue of consent for children, the aged and the mentally disabled gives rise to a number of legal, ethical and human rights issues.
This session will include:
- At what age does the laws in various jurisdictions allow a child to decide for themselves?
- The younger child, is it really in the child's best interest or the interests of others?
- Can or should the consent of a capacious but underage young person be overridden?
- Elderly, disabled and incapacious; similar issues might arise with regards to best interests decisions in relation to restrictive practices (physical and chemical) - is it in the patients' best interest or the best interest of others?
- Compulsory treatment under mental health legislation - when should this be used and under what circumstances?
- Consent of children in relation to the disclosure of their personal information to their parents and/or family members.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
In Sweden, the Covid-19 pandemic has so far had a significant impact on the provision of Swedish healthcare. Reports are made of major increases in the use of telemedical services and doctors are seeing their patients remotely to a much greater extent than before – all for the purpose of limiting exposure and spread of the coronavirus. Virtual clinical trials are also emerging, enabling remote medical services not only in clinical practice but also in clinical research.
Jan 26, 2022
Innovations in the wearables sector – for example, smartwatches that can perform medical-grade electrocardiograms – have significant implications for healthcare. Global Insight investigates how the increasing accuracy of these devices has consequences for regulation and the allocation of liability.
Jun 06, 2024
In this first known attempt to comprehensively quantify the legal profession's socio-economic influence, The IBA report on the social and economic impact of the legal profession reveals that the legal profession directly contributes $1.6 trillion to the global economy.
Jun 04, 2024
The financial valuation of data – an intangible asset – is an emerging area of increasing strategic significance. While many factors influence data value, this article explores the lesser known interplay between data regulation and data valuation, while also considering key requirements of the International Valuation Standards (IVS) and key value drivers of data. Such considerations may be pertinent for practitioners in transactional, insolvency, regulatory and disputes contexts.
Oct 21, 2022
Uruguay was probably one of the first countries in the world to regulate cannabis production for recreational, medical and industrial use (Law No. 19.172, 20 December 2013 (the ‘Law’). The Law established the legal framework for state-control and regulation of the import, export, planting, growing, harvesting, production, acquisition, storage, marketing, distribution and use of cannabis and its derivatives.
Jun 02, 2025
This article explores the regulatory, institutional and operational development of telemedicine in Uruguay, highlighting its evolution since the Covid-19 pandemic. It examines the benefits of this model, particularly in terms of accessibility and equity, and proposes a reform agenda for the advancement towards more sophisticated healthcare practices. Key challenges include interoperability, professional training, ethics, cybersecurity and quality evaluation. Ultimately, the article emphasises the need for a structural public policy that fully integrates telemedicine into the national health system.
After leaving university he worked as a clinical epidemiologist in medical research, before becoming an occupational physician at the State Secretary for Economic Affairs of Switzerland. For ten years he has been responsible for the occupational health aspects of health protection in the workplace and serves as the medical backbone of the labour law. His areas of expertise include motherhood protection, protection of apprentices, the organisation of first aid and also protection against psychosocial stress.
Annual IBA Employment and Diversity Law Conference 2024
Apr 29, 2024
This article provides an overview of product liability in Brazil and the application of consumer law standards to suppliers of medical devices with respect to consumers as end users.
Sep 13, 2023
In the last few years, we have experienced changes making it possible for CEOs to create sustainable business strategies in emerging markets. The question has been: how can an Oil and Gas General Counsel (GC) influence news or updated business strategies – namely when going to Angola or to Sub-Saharan Africa and create successful new joint ventures or a local supplier development model? Legal roles have transformed from a legal advisor to a business partner. There is a need to transform current business strategy.
Vera Jourová, Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency, in conversation with IBA Director of Content, James Lewis.
This panel will be presented by the world’s most inventive and successful cases relating to international adoption, alternative medical processes and identity of citizenship.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
A controversial European law to update copyright rules for the digital environment has moved a step closer amid an ongoing clash over internet freedoms and intellectual property rights.
The panel will consider what these legal issues are (such as patient data privacy, liability in medical decision-making involving AI, protection and valuation of intellectual property rights, and more), how the existing legislative, regulatory and ethical landscape already addresses such legal concerns and what the coming legislations will bring.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
Apr 29, 2024
The import, manufacturing and sale of medical devices in Brazil require prior registration with the Brazilian Health and Surveillance Agency (Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária or 'ANVISA') with evidence of the product's safety, effectiveness and quality.
In the context of criminalisation, the discussion could also touch on the legal issues surrounding conversion therapy, including the position of the medical profession and related legal challenges.
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
Sep 12, 2023
In 2021, Mark Zuckerberg's ambition was to bring internet users into the metaverse. Web giants and major brands have mobilised to develop their projects there. Although there is currently a period of less enthusiasm for the metaverse, it presents real opportunities for a variety of sectors, from gaming to sports, real estate to leisure, retail to education and many others.
For example, AI has been transforming medical diagnosis but at the same time raising concerns as to the protection of patients' sensitive personal data.
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
Apr 29, 2024
Advanced or disruptive technologies are reconfiguring the paradigm, providing innovative techniques that benefit the operations of border control agencies. This article explores the applications and benefits of implementing AI in health controlling authorities' risk assessment for the import of medical products, based on a recent Peruvian experience.
Nov 02, 2023
Striking a balance between the intellectual property rights of and access to affordable medication in developing countries has long been a debated issue in the healthcare sector and legal community. It is now more important than ever to strike a balance between the two perspectives, particularly in developing countries. This article explores the legal landscape surrounding patented medication and compulsory manufacturing licences in Pakistan.
The same might be said of the relationship between new medical technologies and treatments, and the cost of health insurance.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
Jul 28, 2016
In June 2016, California became the fifth US state to allow physician-assisted suicide when its 2015 End of Life Option Act came into force. In the same month, a bill to legalise and regulate assisted dying was passed in Canada's Parliament
International Data Transfer
2.Connected cars
3.Liability for AI errors and misconduct
4.Law 4.0: adapting legal systems for the digital age (including machine-to-machine law enforcement)
5.Patentability for software - including patent eligibility restoration act in the US
6.IP rights for cannabis related inventions
7.Robotic-assisted medical procedures - IP, regulatory and cybersecurity issues
8.US and International privacy and AI compliance enforcement trends
9.Post-merger integration in tech M&A transactions: avoiding pitfalls
10.Beyond financials: assessing "intangible liabilities" in M&A
IBA 6th Silicon Hills Conference – the Tech Epicentre of Texas: from Start-Up to Exit
Mexican lawyers respond to populist government’s shortages of medical products and services
In this panel, we will look at the potential that gene therapy and personalised medicine hold both from a medical and economic perspective, and consider the associated risks, and ethical and compliance challenges.
11th Annual IBA World Life Sciences Conference
Dec 09, 2024
Around 14 million people travel abroad each year to receive medical treatment
Apr 30, 2024
The EU has created the world’s first government regulation of artificial intelligence (the AI Act) which has significant implications for the medical device industry. The AI Act categorises medical devices as a high-risk group and requires providers to comply with strict standards in terms of risk management, data quality, transparency, human oversight and robustness. In addition to the requirements of the Medical Device Regulation (MDR), medical device manufacturers will have to comply with additional regulations in future.
Patient Support Programs regulatory & ethical considerations
Franchising in healthcare
Medicines pricing
Prescription weight loss
Regulation, AI and data protection in medical technology
Clinical trials and AI
The legal significance of Personalized Healthcare
Latest trends in licensing and IP transactions in life sciences
Deepfakes and synthetic media in life sciences: legal risks and global countermeasures
AI in the courtroom: the role of AI in life sciences disputes and global judicial decision-making
Regulatory or orphan drug data exclusivity and enforcement
Global update on bolar exemption and safe harbour
Combating online counterfeiting: strategies and lessons
Trade dress protection for pharmaceutical packaging
WIPO mediation in life sciences
11th Annual IBA World Life Sciences Conference
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