World Bar Conference 2024 Independent Referral Bars - Responding to Global Challenges
Every two years, the International Council of Barristers and Advocates & Barristers organises an international legal conference in different cities worldwide. The World Bar Conference is the only event which brings together members of the independent referral Bar from around the world for three days of debate and discussion on issues and topics of relevance. On 15 - 17 May 2024. this event will be jointly hosted by The Bar of Northern Ireland and The Bar of Ireland
TOPICS INCLUDE:
- Navigating the Crossroads: Cancel Culture, Free Speech, and the Right to Offend
- Law in the Era of Climate Crisis: Unearthing the Legal Challenges Can the Rule of Law Survive in a Time of Conflict?
- Rule of Law Under Fire: Existing in an Age of Conflict
- Humanity on the Move: Legal Frontiers in Migration and Human Rights
- AI Unleashed: Tomorrow's Legal Landscape and the New Normal?
- An Independent Bar and an Independent Judiciary:
- Perspectives from Chief Justices in ICAB Jurisdictions
The conference will be held in the Royal Courts of Justice and Titanic Hotel in Belfast. It will then move south to Dublin Castle and Christchurch Cathedral.
The NZ Jurisdiction is being represented in three sessions by:
- The Hon. Dame Susan Glazebrook - The Chief Justices Panel - Supreme Court of New Zealand / Te Kōti Mana Nui
- Dr Andrew Butler KC - Law in the Era of the Climate Crisis: Unearthing the Legal Challenges
- Felix Geiringer – AI Unleashed
Book your ticket now and attend what will not doubt be a thought provoking event.
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