IBA Annual Conference Rome 2018
7 Oct - 12 Oct 2018
Session Room E, Level -1
Session information
SPPI Showcase: the tech revolution- a threat to the core values of civil society and of the legal profession?
Thursday 11 October (0930 - 1230)
Session Room E, Level -1
Committee(s)
Section on Public and Professional Interest
(Lead)
Senior Lawyers' Committee
(Lead)
Law Firm Management Committee
Professional Ethics Committee
Technology Law Committee
Young Lawyers' Committee
Description
Traditional sources of law cannot keep pace with technology reconfiguring the world. Should we cede control by allowing technology a role in generating law? Technological progress generates legal complexity detached from the broader context, and inconsistencies undermining legal certainty. Lawyers feel a responsibility to maintain the fundamental values of civil society, dignity and justice -now under emerging threats from technology, which left to itself could create a dehumanised reality. The session will focus on how IBA members from a range of cultural backgrounds can pursue the values enshrined in the rule of law in the context of the globalised cybereconomy.
Session / Workshop Chair(s)
| Christina Blacklaws | The Law Society of England and Wales, London, England; President / Chairperson, Member Organisations |
| Irina Paliashvili | RULG Ukrainian Legal Group, Kyiv, Ukraine |
Keynote Speakers
| Jochen Engelhardt | Microsoft Central and Eastern Europe, Munich, Germany |
| Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey Vos | Judiciary of England and Wales, London, England |
| Tomasz Wardynski | Wardynski & Partners, Warsaw, Poland; IBA Council MemberThe Polish Bar Council |
Speakers
| Michelle Bakhos | Michelle Bakhos Law Practice, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Co-Vice Chair , Young Lawyers' Committee |
| Sidika Baysal | BBO LEGAL, Istanbul, Turkey; Senior Vice Chair, European Regional Forum |
| Marie Bernard | Bleu de Prusse, Berlin, Germany |
| Justice (ret.) Justice (ret.) Stephen Allan Brobbey | Supreme Court of Ghana, Accra, Ghana |
| Professor Eleanor Lumsden | Golden Gate University School of Law, San Francisco, California, USA |
| Abe Schear | Arnall Golden Gregory, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| Meg Strickler | Conaway & Strickler, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Chair, Cybercrime Subcommittee |
| Carlos Valls Martinez | Giró Martínez, Barcelona, Spain; Co-Chair, Professional Ethics Committee |
| Ursula Wynhoven | International Telecommunication Union, New York, New York, USA |