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Jul 27, 2023
A conference report on the ‘The in-house perspective on legal ops and new tech tools reshaping legal services’ session from the Biennial IBA Latin American Regional Forum Conference: Technology, social media and artificial intelligence: challenges for the legal industry in the digital age.
We will explore some of the many sources of the pressure to implement AI and boost the visibility of legal ops, including the pressure to do more with less, the explosion of legal technology, data-driven decision making and internal stakeholder expectations.
IBA Annual Conference Copenhagen 2026
Jul 20, 2020
The Law Society Gazette has published a co-authored opinion piece on contested historical legacies in public spaces by International Bar Association (IBA) Executive Director Mark Ellis and Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation(IHJR) Director, Timothy W Ryback.
Competition Law in Africa Conference: regulatory developments and enforcement trends across the continent
Apr 22, 2022
This article discusses the recent SEC case involving PwC and highlights the wider implications for intermediary institutions providing professional services in a tightened regulatory and enforcement regime in China’s banking and financial sector.
Litigating in the Asia Pacific Region
Jul 08, 2025
Mediation is on the rise internationally as a means to settle disputes in a cost-effective manner. Chinese parties appear to be increasingly interested in mediation as an option. This article examines the evolving landscape of mediation in China and internationally. It considers how mediation for Chinese parties is evolving and whether mediation is a good option for Chinese parties in cross-border disputes. Commercial mediation has seen remarkable growth, bolstered by a supportive PRC judicial system and legislative initiatives encouraging parties to find harmonious ways to resolve disputes. The article analyses the three primary types of mediation in China: people’s mediation, administrative mediation, and commercial mediation. It also looks at mediation rules and proceedings in common law jurisdictions, such as Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United States. The article anecdotally considers the cultural elements, emphasising the Chinese parties’ preference for evaluative mediation styles as a reflection of civil law. Through case studies of international disputes involving Chinese and US parties, the article illustrates the practical dynamics of mediation involving Chinese parties and underscores the importance of cultural sensitivity in international mediation. As Chinese parties continue to go global, mediation is emerging as an attractive option for efficient and cost-effective dispute resolution. This analysis assesses whether the promotion of mediation is yielding tangible outcomes and explores the future of mediation involving Chinese and foreign parties.
Building the Law Firm of the Future
May 12, 2024
The growing use and popularity of generative artificial intelligence (AI) have presented the US Copyright Office and US courts with novel questions of copyright law. The Copyright Office has already begun addressing copyright registration applications involving AI while, at the same time, copyright infringement cases involving AI have begun working their way through our courts. The law is far from settled, but standards are materialising that can guide practitioners working in this rapidly evolving area of law.
When arbitration meets crime
Nov 14, 2024
A session report from the joint session of the IBA Regional Fora at the IBA Annual Conference 2024 in Mexico City.
IBA Human Rights Conference: Climate, justice and law - challenges and opportunities
Dec 04, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) is developing rapidly in China, with the number of patents and the size of the market both ranking highly among countries. However, this rapid development has posed new challenges to the legal framework, ethical norms and social governance, prompting China to continuously adjust and improve the relevant regulatory system.
The role of the courts in arbitration: an Asia Pacific perspective
Apr 20, 2022
This article outlines the eligibility requirements and types of approvals made under Ontario’s Immigrant Nominee Program.
28th Annual Competition Conference
Jan 28, 2026
This article reflects on the highlights of the IBA Annual Conference in Toronto for the Criminal Law Section. This included panels on the impact of INTERPOL red notices, misconduct against corporates, investigative journalism, and more!
10th World Women Lawyers' Conference: Driving Change
By Yi-An (Ann) Lai. Alipay and the impact of e-payment systems resulting in new regulations in China and other jurisdictions.
IBA Asia Pacific Arbitration Group Event
Feb 17, 2023
This article will outline the development of China’s restrictions on the cross-border transfer of personal information (PI export), detailing PI export mechanisms provided by the Personal Information Protection Law. It will also explain the practical implications of the restrictions.
8th IBA Asia Pacific Regional Forum Biennial Conference: Vibrant Asia – Land of opportunity and promise
Nov 27, 2024
This article reviews the development of emergency arbitrator proceedings (EA) internationally in institutional arbitration rules and in national laws since the ICDR Rules first offered EA in arbitration in 2006, including the forms of urgent interim relief available in EA pending the constitution of an arbitratlon tribunal. Among other topics, it reviews why parties choose EA, the interaction of EA with national court systems, provides a comparison between EA and national courts’ proceedings including as to cost, the types of interim measures available, coercive powers to require compliance, their respective scope as to third parties, whether ex parte applications are permissible, the enforceability of interim relief orders, the nature of the order or award and whether a binding decision is made in EA, and the approach of jurisdictions to enforcement of orders made in EA. The article provides statistics as the uptake and use of EA proceedings from 2020 to 2023 in ICC, SIAC, HKIAC, SCC and LCIA arbitrations and reviews the different approaches to the substantive standards for granting relief in EA proceedings. It discusses EA relief and performance bonds. Finally, it reviews the considerations relevant to the future development of EA.
Biennial IBA Latin American Regional Forum Conference: The Road to 2030 in Latin America
This article discusses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Nigerian oil industry by presenting the current situation and comparing it to other states in the same region.
9th Biennial Conference on Construction Projects from Conception to Completion
By Nadine Bengtsson. Challenges enforcing public policies on data protection and competition in digital markets: an Argentinean perspective
Mergers and Acquisitions in India: a key engine to the USD 30 trillion goal
Aug 05, 2024
In this article, the authors trace the history, evolution and latest developments of the antitrust laws’ application to labour markets in the United States. Then, they describe common types of claims in labour markets cases, before analysing recent criminal and civil wage-fixing, no poach, and merger challenges. The authors conclude by providing actions companies should consider taking, as they seek to avoid finding themselves as a defendant in an antitrust–labour markets case.
IBA War Crimes Committee Conference 2025: Law on the frontlines
A reform of environmental criminal law, aimed at strengthening its response to environmental damage is shortly to be introduced in France. This article provides an assessment of the French legal and regulatory background to address environmental crime and upcoming procedural tools which will allow companies to be proactive when a given misdemeanour is uncovered.
ESG Primer: levelling up technical expertise in sustainability reporting and due diligence
Jul 01, 2022
This article, by former Judge President of South Africa’s Competition Appeal Court, Dennis Davis, examines the decision of South Africa’s Constitutional Court in the Mediclinic case, which concerned a proposed merger in the private healthcare sector involving hospitals in relatively small towns. The Constitutional Court overturned the decision of the majority of the Competition Appeal Court, which found that because medical care in Potchefstroom and Klerksdorp did not fall within the same local market, the merger did not give rise to the problem of a substantial lessening of competition in the local market. The article concludes that whilst the Constitutional Court’s emphasis on the role that the Constitution must play in the interpretation of provisions of the Competition Act is to be applauded, and this case will doubtless influence the interpretation of the Competition Act in future litigation, the right to healthcare in section 27 of the Constitution is not a jurisprudential war cry, and its application must still depend on the facts of the case. The decision may invite the Competition Commission to invoke the Constitution, almost without fetter, and reduce the Competition Appeal Court’s jurisdiction considerably so as to render the Competition Commission far less accountable than should be the case in a dispensation based on the rule of law.
9th Mergers and Acquisitions in the Technology Sector Conference
When and how to pull levers: intent and enforceability of term sheet/letter of intent. Teresa Massaro, Christopher Scott, Luca CM Melchionna
IBA War Crimes Committee Conference 2026: Masters of war
Aug 25, 2022
In July, US President Joe Biden and his team set the scene for a four-day visit to the Middle East. The trip, they said, was designed to galvanize support for the US-led Western policy towards Russia’s war in Ukraine and help ease energy prices that are crippling consumers worldwide.
22nd Annual International Conference on Private Investment Funds
IBA Global Insight December/January 2019. Jennifer Rubin was an employment lawyer for Hollywood studios for 20 years and became a columnist for The Washington Post in 2010. Here, Jennifer Rubin expresses her views from what’s described as a right-of-centre perspective. She speaks with James Lewis, the IBA’s Director of Content, directly after Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s controversial confirmation to the Supreme Court, just weeks before the US mid-term elections.
IBA Arb40 Symposium – new horizons in international arbitration
Sep 07, 2022
The panel on digital assets at the 37th International Financial Law Conference in Venice was co-chaired by Dirk Bliesener, Vice-Chair of the IBA Banking Law Committee and partner at Hengeler Mueller in Frankfurt, and Benjamin Leisinger, member of the IBA Securities Law Committee and partner at Homburger in Zurich. It began by examining some of the fundamentals of crypto markets and the different asset standards.
8th Mergers and Acquisitions in the Technology Sector Conference
Feb 24, 2026
24 February 2026 marks the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Over the past four years the International Bar Association has provided significant assistance to Ukraine. From the first days of the invasion, the IBA spoke out clearly and unequivocally, condemning…
Biennial IBA Latin American Regional Forum Conference: The Road to 2030 in Latin America
Mar 04, 2022
Blockchain-based arbitration is just like traditional arbitration except it takes place on blockchains, such as Ethereum. The arbitration agreement forms part of the smart contract, arbitrators are selected using random numbers extracted from the blocks in the blockchain and the award is also embedded in a self-executable smart contract. There is currently no regulation in transnational blockchain-based arbitration. Any such regulation faces a number of serious challenges, such as how to determine the applicable jurisdiction in a blockchain-based arbitration. This article seeks to address such challenges by suggesting some possible guidelines.
IBA Annual Litigation Forum - The world has lost its compass: we need to talk about litigators!
Jul 21, 2022
Despite all of the difficulties, in the last two years the Brazilian equity crowdfunding ecosystem has exceeded all expectations and proved its maturity. Perceiving the growth potential of this market, the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a set of updates to the equity crowdfunding regulation, which will be addressed in this article.
Fundamentals of International Legal Business Practice: IBA Young Lawyers’ Training Course Miami
Jun 01, 2021
Under various legal constructs, legal systems enable a party to a contract to ease its obligations or otherwise seek a rebalancing of the terms of the contract where an extraordinary and unforeseeable event makes one party’s performance excessively onerous and this results in an unreasonable imbalance in the parties’ obligations. The Covid-19 crisis has increased the interest shown by legal commentators, regulators, legislators and virtually all firms, big and small, in scrutinising the opportunities to benefit from these constructs to suspend or reduce rents in leases, to terminate or reduce committed shipments in supply agreements, to stop or reduce committed investment in franchise agreements and the like. This paper concludes that no such relief would be available to borrowers or obligors under finance agreements.
12th Annual London Finance and Capital Markets Conference
Jun 02, 2025
The United Kingdom’s pharmaceutical industry faces substantial challenges from counterfeit pharmaceuticals, exacerbated by the rise of online pharmacies and drug shortages. This article explores innovative strategies to combat these threats, focusing on authentication technologies, public awareness campaigns and international collaboration. The UK has a robust regulatory framework, but there have been limited technological advancements as yet. However, initiatives like the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s use of AI in partnership with eBay and public campaigns, such as #FakeMeds and the Yellow Card scheme, highlight the ongoing efforts in this regard. The article underscores the need for continued innovation and global cooperation to effectively address the evolving counterfeit pharmaceuticals landscape.
The 2nd IBA Litigation and ADR Symposium - the changing landscape of litigation and arbitration in India
Chamberlain and Edelman: double taxation, the dormant commerce clause and a few planning considerations
Building the Law Firm of the Future
As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, from one day to the next the courts were out of the parties’ reach. ADR was thrown into the spotlight in France. However, a 2019 Civil Procedure Reform had just restricted the scope of the parties’ obligation to try out-of-court settlement of low-value monetary claims, thereby confirming the courts’ well-established interpretation of the non-binding nature of ADR.
ESG: the role of lawyers today and in the future
Oct 18, 2022
Citizenship by registration under section 26 of the Constitution of The Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) has been a controversial document as it stipulates that only women married to Nigerian men are eligible for Nigerian citizenship. Foreign husbands of Nigerian women are not entitled to become citizens. On 3 March 2022, members of the Nigerian House of Representatives rejected Bill 36, ‘a bill to expand the scope of citizenship by registration’. This Bill would have enabled foreign men married to Nigerian women to become citizens. Its rejection, along with other gender empowering bills was a massive setback to the fight against gender inequality in Nigeria. Nevertheless, on 8 March 2022, the rejection of the proposed Bill was rescinded by the House. In order to discuss citizenship by registration in Nigeria, it is important to define the concept of citizenship, the controversy surrounding the Bill, and how it affects gender equality in Nigeria.
7th Annual IBA European Start-up Conference
Jul 14, 2024
Innovation was the leading topic at the 4th European Automotive and Mobility Services Conference convened on 14 March 2024. Nearly 100 delegates gathered at Upper East, a unique venue boasting an industrial chic vibe on the 9th and 10th floors, located behind Ostbahnhof station.
Mergers and Acquisitions in India: a key engine to the USD 30 trillion goal
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