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For global organisations, employees represent far more than a numerical workforce. They are a core business asset and a key driver of long-term success. Yet organisations frequently face situations where economic pressures, evolving business strategies, technological disruption or organisational transformation necessitate difficult decisions about workforce size and structure. As a result, the ...

Welcome to the Business Development and Marketing Subcommittee Podcast series, where we explore strategies that help law firms build stronger client relationships. In the second episode, we dive into one of the hottest topics in the industry: artificial intelligence. We ask how AI will impact marketing, business development and client relationships, and we consider the role that BD and marketin...

Welcome to the Business Development and Marketing Subcommittee Podcast series, where we explore strategies that help law firms build stronger client relationships. In the first episode, we’re joined by John Matson from Arthur Cox, one of Ireland’s top law firms. John has years of experience working with major clients and navigating the challenges of building trust and delivering value. Hosted b...

In the second episode of the IBA Employment and Industrial Relations Committee podcast series, hosted by Veena Gopalakrishnan from Trilegal, India and Mikko Kontturi from AURORALAW, Finland, with guests Stephan Swinkels from Littler, The Netherlands, Roselyn Sands, RoselynSands Law, France and Kirsten Lucas, Stephenson Harwood, United Arab Emirates, we discuss the best practices and insights on...

In this episode, Don C Smith, Editor of the Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law (JERL), interviews SEERIL Chair Matthias Lang at the 2025 IBA Annual Conference in Toronto. They discuss the Conference and plans for future SEERIL events.

Our guest for the next episode of the IBA Insolvency Section Podcast is one of the most distinguished and well-known experts in international insolvency and restructuring law – Professor Bob Wessels. With over 50 years of experience as a practitioner, judge, legal advisor to the European Commission and academic researcher, Wessels brings exceptional insight to the subject of this episode:  ‘Th...

 In the opening episode of the new podcast series by the IBA Employment and Industrial Relations Committee, hosted by Veena Gopalakrishnan from Trilegal, India and Mikko Kontturi from AURORALAW, Finland, with guests Hector Gonzales Graf from MGGL, Mexico, Lucy Gordon from Walker Morris LLP, UK, and Gordon Williams from MinterEllison, Australia, we discuss the current state and what to expect in...

As legal technology/AI continues to have an impact on transactional-focused practices, this podcast assesses where we’ve come from, where we are and where a thought leader and innovator of legal technology believes we are headed, specifically with respect to M&A transactions, including private equity. The conversation is moderated by Adina Shapiro, Scholarship Officer of the IBA Corporate and M...

In this IBA Criminal Law Committee podcast, five experts explore the global legal and policy response to female genital mutilation (FGM), which affects over 230 million women and girls worldwide. The podcast is framed around a forthcoming pro bono report prepared by King & Spalding and WilmerHale for UK charity the Vavengers, which highlights legislative gaps, data poverty and proposes actionab...

In this fourth instalment of the IBA Insolvency Section’s podcast series, Brett Axelrod, Managing Partner of Fox Rothschild’s Las Vegas office and past Co-Chair of the firm’s nationwide Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy Department, along with Brittany Michael, Senior Counsel at Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones specialising in the representation of tort creditors’ committees, discuss the seminal...

In the third podcast from the IBA Insolvency Section, Juana Pulgar, Chaired Professor in Business Law at the University Complutense of Madrid and a member of the International Insolvency Institute, discusses the Draft EU Directive published on 7 December 2022, which focuses on harmonising certain aspects of insolvency law.

In the second podcast from the IBA Insolvency Section, Carolyn Jones, a full-time mediator at CJ Mediation, speaks to Gordon Hollerin, a partner at Harper Macleod. Carolyn is an experienced mediator, having been a solicitor for over 25 years in a career that includes work on commercial and banking litigation, bank remediation projects and, extensively, corporate and personal insolvency matters....

In this podcast, Tim Harris, Podcast Officer on the IBA Anti-Corruption Committee and financial crime lawyer at Cohen & Gresser, speaks to Lord Edward Garnier KC, barrister and member of the House of Lords, and Nicola Bonucci, criminal lawyer and former Director of Legal Affairs at the OECD, on the subject of the current approach in the UK and Europe to compensation for overseas victims of econ...

In this podcast from IBA Insolvency Section, Alexander Klauser, UNCITRAL Liaison for the IBA Insolvency Section and a professor of insolvency law at the University of Graz, discusses the latest insolvency news from the recent meeting of UNCITRAL Working Group V in Vienna.

In this, the first Business Law International (BLI) podcast, Melissa Stock, Member of the BLI Editorial Board and a barrister at Millenium Chambers in London, invites a panel of experts to analyse the UK’s Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act, which became law in October 2023. The panel discuss the background to the legislation and its implications, including in respect of failure to p...

In this podcast, privacy and data protection barrister, Melissa Stock, speaks with Professor Fraser Sampson, Professor of Governance and National Security at Sheffield Hallam University and former Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner for the UK, about the complex legal context surrounding the use of facial recognition technology by British police, the difficulties of legislating for th...

Podcast: Brazilian private equity

Episode 4 of Torture A-Z covers the juxtaposition of human rights and humanitarian law (‘H’) and Islamic law (‘I’) in a fascinating discussion with Dr Julie Fraser (Assistant Professor with the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights and the Montaigne Centre for Rule of Law at Utrecht University, the Netherlands) and Dr Ahmed Aldawoody (Legal Adviser for Islamic Law and Jurisprudence at the Inter...

Ellisa Habbart, Director of The Delaware Counsel Group in Wilmington, Delaware, asks Vice Chancellor J Travis Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery to share his thoughts about issues he believes should be of concern to practitioners. A conversation ensues that addresses a range of issues from governing law provisions to ‘so-called’ boilerplate in merger and related agreements to legal opinio...

In this Committee podcast, Paul White, a corporate partner at A&L Goodbody in Dublin, interviews Dwayne Lysaght, co-head of M&A EMEA at JP Morgan. The interview focuses on the role of the board of directors of a target company and its advisers. The podcast also assesses what corporate lawyers should consider when advising boards of directors. The discussion explores the period before any takeov...

In this podcast, Naveen Raju, General Counsel & Executive Vice President – Group Legal Services at Indian automotive manufacturing corporation Mahindra and Mahindra, speaks to Rabindra Jhunjhunwala, Membership Officer of the IBA Corporate and M&A Law Committee and a partner at Khaitan & Co’s Mumbai office. They discuss the multiple hats worn by general counsel and the more active roles they mus...

This episode – ‘G’ for Guantanamo voices – is dedicated to two powerful people: Mohamedou Ould Slahi and Nancy Hollander, who have both helped to shine a light on the humanitarian and human rights catastrophe that is Guantanamo Bay.

Europe faces a critical energy security situation in the northern hemisphere’s 2022-2023 winter in the months ahead. How will the continent deal with the cut-off of energy, especially gas, from Russia? Will the continent be able to ‘keep the lights on’ in a manner of speaking? In this episode, German attorney Dr Matthias Lang, a European energy law expert, explores the challenges that lie ahead...

Regulatory requirements have become increasingly important in the European deal environment over the last few years. Whilst the M&A community is used to the relevance of antitrust filings, foreign investment control (FIC) is today equally important for deals, especially those involving non-EU investors. In this podcast, Petra Linsmeier, Head of Antitrust at Gleiss Lutz in Munich, and Jacob von...

In this episode, Don C Smith, Editor of the Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law (JERL) and Director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Program at the University of Denver (US) Sturm College of Law interviews Alain De Serres, Deputy Director in the Policy Studies Branch of the OECD Economics Department.

Resilience can be seen and learnt from recent legal responses to crisis, such as pandemics and climate breakdown. This podcast discusses how resilience can be understood as a feature of the legal system to sustain in times of disruption. In a wider sense, it is the ability of our social-ecological ecosystems to resist and adapt to disruptions, and to pursue sustainable development and equity in...

The trend against funding oil and gas projects has grown, causing uncertainties to investment, commodity price volatility and heightened concerns regarding energy supply and security. The volatility and rapidly rising commodity prices have been exacerbated recently by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. While there is widely-accepted recognition that energy transition must happen, global unrest and m...

To launch this podcast series, JERL’s Editor Don C Smith interviews Iñigo del Guayo, professor of administrative law at the University of Almeria Spain.  For nearly 30 years, Professor del Guayo has been a member of JERL's editorial advisory board, thus putting him in a unique position to explain the history of the journal.  In addition, his long history of writing about energy law, particularl...

In this podcast, Harpreet K Sidhu, the IBA Counsel Forum’s Publications Officer and the General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Privacy Officer at Pethealth – A Fairfax Company, interviews Shawn Neylan, a partner at Stikeman Elliot. They discuss the issue of sanctions screening and particularly what in-house counsel need to know about this important topic, with a focus on the Canadian perspect...

In this, the second in a series of podcasts produced by the IBA Corporate and M&A Law Committee, Rodrigo Ferreira Figueiredo, the Committee’s Website Officer and a partner at Mattos Filho, interviews Lucas Braun, M&A Counsel at Prosus Group, a global technology investor. Braun shares his thoughts on the attractions and challenges of investing in the Latin America region, and comments on key tre...

The IBA Human Rights Law Committee is currently working on a podcast series looking at both obvious and overlooked aspects of litigating and documenting torture, in an ‘A-Z’ format. The second episode, now available, covers D-F: deprivation; the exclusionary rule; and forensics. During this second episode, the hosts interview the distinguished Argentinian jurist and activist, Professor Juan M...

An interview with IBA Executive Director Mark Ellis as part of the 'Who am I?' series. Mark Ellis shares the experiences that have shaped him as a legal professional and as a person.

Geospatial data are becoming increasingly relevant in our technology-driven world. In this podcast, privacy and data barrister, Melissa Stock, speaks with Kevin Pomfret, an attorney and Executive Director of the Centre for Spatial Law and Policy. They discuss the growing legal complexity surrounding the use of geospatial data and the challenges that it presents for lawyers and policy makers.

This episode covers arbitrary detention, as both a form of torture and environment which renders individuals susceptible to torture; beatings – physical torture; and ‘ confessions and clean teams’.

The case emphasises that a focus before the courts on the technical capabilities of sophisticated electronic devices like high-speed cameras can be successful, despite several attempts of the European Commission to block the correct classification by introducing new arguments. For the Court of Justice of the EU, the demonstrated technical characteristics were strong enough to declare a contrary...

Welcome to the first in a series of podcasts by the IBA International Trade and Customs Law Committee (https://www.ibanet.org/unit/International+Commerce%2C+Trade%2C+Franchising+and+Product+Law+Section/committee/International+Trade+and+Customs+Law+Committee/3002) : Customs law conversations - practitioners talk to practitioners. In this podcast, Yves Melin, Publications Officer for the Committ...

The IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit (https://www.ibanet.org/LPRU) (LPRU) has created a series of podcasts on business and human rights, to look at the rapidly increasing need for companies to act responsibly and sustainably. In this episode, Professor John Ruggie, the author of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) speaks to Sara Carnegie, Director of the LPRU and Mar...

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented changes in the way we live and work, and, as a consequence, has accelerated the adoption of digital technologies. However, this transformation has not been without its issues.   In this podcast, privacy and data barrister, Melissa Stock, speaks with Vijay Rathour, Head of the Digital Forensics Group at Grant Thornton, about the problems faced dur...

Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, Director of the IBA's Human Rights Institute, speaks to former legislator Ted Hui, who fled Hong Kong for the United Kingdom at the end of 2020. Their discussion focuses on Hui’s involvement in the Hong Kong umbrella movement, the introduction of the national security law and the presence of UK judges in Hong Kong. Image: Shutterstock.com / Hsiuwen Liu

Hugo Beteta, Director of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) discusses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Latin American and Caribbean countries, the difference between poverty and inequality, and the recommendations made by ECLAC on the eradication of poverty, with Alvaro Castellanos Howell, Co-Chair of the IBA Poverty and Social Development Committee.

We only have ten years left to achieve Sustainable Development Goal number two – zero hunger – but, the food security of the most vulnerable communities will deteriorate even further due to the health and socio-economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Mila Versteeg, Director, Human Rights Program, University of Virginia School of Law, on the role the Brazilian judiciary has played during the pandemic. Interview by Polly Botsford

As the world of work changed in response to Covid-19, law firms have adapted to the situation. Highly experienced law firm leaders from around the globe discuss the challenges and steps taken – from the technological to the logistical, from managing staff wellbeing and communications to responding to client demands. 

Baroness Helena Kennedy QC talks about the need to monitor the Covid-19 situation in the United Kingdom to ensure there aren't abuses of special powers. Full podcast available: https://www.ibanet.org/Podcasts/7549027.aspx

Baroness Helena Kennedy QC discusses the situation for asylum seekers at the United States border during the Covid-19 pandemic. Full podcast available: https://www.ibanet.org/Podcasts/7549027.aspx

Baroness Helena Kennedy discusses the situation in India during the Covid-19 pandemic. Listen to the full podcast from April 2020 here: https://www.ibanet.org/Podcasts/7549027.aspx

Baroness Helena Kennedy QC discusses the emergency legislation pushed through in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic. Listen to the full podcast here: https://www.ibanet.org/Podcasts/7549027.aspx