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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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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’.
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
Global Insight assesses the implications for businesses and their lawyers, from contracts to the need to diversify how goods and services are sourced.
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
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.
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
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.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
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.’
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
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 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
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.
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.
The age of sanctions: opportunities and challenges for the new generation of lawyers
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.
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
Oct 29, 2025
Report on a Young Litigators seminar held at the Singapore office of Allen & Gledhill
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
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 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
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.
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
Combatting age discrimination: the role for employers and in-house lawyers, In-House Perspective May 2019
An open meeting of the Agricultural Law Section held to discuss matters of interest and future activities.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
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.
The session will explore the challenges faced by farmers, food businesses, consumers, and environmental institutions and entities when dealing with the global tensions that concern the production and supply of food commodities and products, in relation with farming costs and financing. The panellists will discuss about the strategic and legal solutions to be adopted in order to prevent present and future stress conditions from happening throughout the healthy and less-healthy areas of the world.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
Competition in the digital age: learning from the European Commission’s Guess decision, In-House Perspective May 2019
SustainabilityFocusHumanRightsThe session will explore the current regulatory framework for sustainable and responsible investment in agriculture and how this can contribute to the mitigation of the climate crisis. It will explore how lawyers in the private and public sectors can use a variety of legal tools including environmental and human rights law to promote sustainable and responsible investment in agriculture within their national contexts.
SUSTAINABILITY FOCUS sessions marked as such are part of the IBA Annual Conference 2022 sustainability focus on Tuesday and Thursday, grouping sessions discussing different aspects of ESG and sustainability across the different legal fields.
Advancing Land-based Investment Governance (ALIGN) supports governments, civil society, local communities and other relevant actors in strengthening the governance of land-based investments. The project is implemented by a consortium led by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) and Namati, and is funded with UK aid from the UK government. Some of this webinar material has been produced as part of ALIGN by CCSI and IIED, however the views expressed do not necessarily reflect the official views or policies of ALIGN partners or the UK Government.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
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.
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.
Responsible land-based investments in agriculture: Latin America
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.
We intend to explore the impacts of the foreign ownership of farmland from an economic, social and environmental perspective.
We will address the cross-border challenges faced in regulating and monitoring these transactions, and the benefits and risks associated with foreign investment in farmland.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
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 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
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.
Innovative HR Director with 20+ years of experience with multinational teams, global companies, as well as, in matrix, digital and diverse organizations. Top Employer 2019, 2020. Former HR Director at PwC and DHL
Annual IBA Employment and Diversity Law Conference 2026
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.
This session will explore how mechanisation and digitalisation affects the labour force, particularly in transitional economies, and how to advise clients on labour issues, on displacement, and the implications on agricultural production.
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
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.
A virtual conference presented by the European Regional Forum, 25 February 2021, 1200 – 1330 GMT
Cultivated meat: opportunities and challenges
Nov 29, 2024
The rapid growth and expansion of the internet in the 21st century has had an all-engulfing Midas touch, reaching into every aspect of personal, professional and business communication. This has tested the resilience of professional ethics in more ways than one.
An overview of global governance approaches to the regulation of cultured meat.
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
Jan 19, 2024
The world is experiencing the effects of increased globalisation at a transcendental speed. One of the key factors behind such globalisation is foreign direct investment (FDI). FDIs often outperform government aids and portfolio investments, as one of the largest sources of non-debt external financing. In addition to the direct benefit of capital inflows that FDIs bring, certain indirect benefits follow suit. Access to diversified international markets, an increase in domestic supply chains, reforms in domestic laws and regulation to keep pace with modernisation are key indirect benefits, which have made FDIs an attractive option for domestic markets. However, while modern governments are well informed about the lucrativeness of FDIs coming from resource-rich destinations, many countries have begun to implement rigid screening mechanisms before permitting FDI inflows. The rise of opportunistic takeovers and foreign investments made with undesirable motives has propelled an increase in FDI screening mechanisms across countries. The first part of this article aims to understand the general rise of protectionism in the formulation of FDI policies and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the same. The second part involves an analysis of Indian FDI regimes with a protectionist character. Finally, in the third part, the authors compare the Indian FDI regime with other FDI regimes around the world, to identify protectionism in FDI laws.
There are legal and policy challenges ahead of us when it comes to preventing the increase of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) while feeding a growing world population and meeting global food security concerns: what are the viable solutions to addressing AMR, and what are the consequences if we do not act now?
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
This is the second part of an article; the first part was published in Business Law International Volume 22, Number 1 (January 2021).
This second part continues the article’s exploration of those areas of EU law that permit a Member State legitimately to interfere in markets, coupled with the unique set of checks and balances available under EU law that are designed to ensure that a Member State, when exercising its legitimate interests, does not do so in ways that subvert the free trade principles [...]
This session will explore the emerging technologies that are transforming agriculture, including artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things, agricultural drones and precision agriculture, among other technologies.
We will discuss the implications of these technologies for increasing efficiency, productivity and sustainability in agriculture, as opposed to the challenges and concerns related to data privacy, ethics and regulation.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
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