The International Bar Association’s (IBA) held its first annual conference in Korea at the COEX Convention & Exhibition Centre in Seoul from 22-27 September, which saw a good attendance from many Indian lawyers and firms.
Globally, the IBA conference is one of the important venues for legal professionals to meet and network. It also serves to advance the development of law and its role in business and society.
“We are connecting with Asia more fully,” Tim Hughes, the IBA’s deputy executive director, told India Business Law Journal. “Some international law firms attending have never been here, to Seoul.”
Hughes said about 5,000 delegates attended the Seoul conference, “here in a heartland of cross-border law”.
“The good news is we are seeing a lot more delegates from the Asia-Pacific,” he said. Of the 1,250 newcomers to our conference this year, most of them are from the APAC region. And it’s not just Eastern Asia. I’ve just come from a meeting with Uzbekistan delegates. This dialogue with Central Asia is laying a foundation for decades to come.”
Hughes said a packed programme for the week involved more than 200 sessions with everything from developments in the various practice areas to human rights issues and the rule of law, gender parity, persecution of the judiciary, the economics of justice etc., as well as a broad theme of “diversity and inclusion”.
“The main thing is we have 60 to 70 specialist committees,” he said. “No theme is excluded; If you’re in the tax committee then they decide on the agenda and the speakers. It’s the same with every specialist committee, the agendas are designed by cross-border specialists.”
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