Final Programme - International Bar Association

The IBA Global Financial
Crisis Project
Our programme in Dublin takes on a very important theme
this year. IBA President Akira Kawamura has extended
the IBA’s Global Financial Crisis (GFC) Project to address
his and our profession’s profound concerns for the predicament of
the poor. Phase Two will assess, and to the extent that it is feasible,
propose social and legal reforms that would remediate the hardships
encountered in society as a consequence of cataclysmic events such
as the GFC.
Given their connection to the work of the Task Force, a series of
sessions for this conference have been highlighted as ‘President
Priority Sessions’ and are so noted in the programme and listed
below. These sessions will be monitored and their contents
summarised for inclusion in a planned book of papers.
Hendrik Haag, former Chair of the Legal Practice Division, led Phase
One of the Task Force. It prepared a report to address the deficiencies
of systems of financial regulation and offered suggestions for reform.
Now, under the leadership of Dr Peter Maynard, Chair of the Public
and Professional Interest Division (PPID), the PPID is carrying out Phase
Two. Through a book of papers by noteworthy authors, the Task
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Monday 0930 – 1230 Public Law Section Beyond the tipping point: is mankind
populating itself into extinction?
Monday 0930 – 1230 Anti-Money Laundering
Legislation Implementation
Working Group/
Professional Ethics
Committee
Tuesday 0930 – 1230 Human Rights Law
Committee/Indigenous
Peoples
Tuesday 1430 – 1730 Anti-Corruption
Committee
Should professional ethics regulate
money laundering by lawyers?
The dispossessed: an examination of
groups on the edge of society, their
rights, legal challenges, successes and
failures
2012 global update on anti-corruption
legislation and enforcement
Wicklow Meeting Room
3, Level 2
Liffey Meeting Room 5,
Level 1
Liffey Meeting Room 4,
Level 1
70
74
Ecocem Room, Level 2 92
Tuesday 1430 – 1730 War Crimes Pillage: the corporate war crime? Wicklow Meeting Room
2, Level 2
Wednesday 0930 – 1230 Banking Law/Corporate
Social Responsibility
Wednesday 0930 – 1230 Anti-Corruption
Committee
Wednesday 1430 – 1730 Human Rights Law
Committee
Wednesday 1430 – 1730 Anti-Corruption
Committee
Thursday 0930 – 1230 African Regional Forum/
Corporate Social
Responsibility
Thursday 0930 – 1230 PPID/Pro Bono and Access
to Justice
Force will examine the role that the law and legal profession can play,
and the impact they may have, in confronting the negative social
effects of the GFC upon those living in or being driven into poverty.
When economic hardships intensify, those living in poverty suffer
immediately and the most. With no buffer to protect them, the
poor risk losing what little they have, including shelter and food.
The Global Financial Crisis has taken even the most basic work away
from the poor and has driven others into poverty. Further disabled by
poverty, the poor have no ready means of recovery.
Phase Two will report on wider social and legal problems that have
resulted from, or been highlighted by, the GFC. It will look for
solutions through suggesting changes that can be made to the legal
arrangements and frameworks. The Task Force will aim to define
social/legal policy that would serve to improve the circumstances
of people’s lives and avoid both foreseeable and unforeseen
consequences in times of financial crisis.
The following are the President Priority Sessions that will be held over
the next five days:
CSR, the financial industry and project
financing
Fair and equitable treatment: the
issue of corruption in international
investment arbitrations
Public and private use of human rights:
how can advocacy of human rights
best be achieved in both spheres?
The role of financial institutions in the
fight against corruption – can we bank
on them?
CSR in Africa – effective tool or
convenient escape?
PPID Showcase: Lawyers against
poverty
Conference Room 3,
Level 1
Liffey Meeting Room 2,
Level 1
Wicklow Meeting Room
3, Level 2
90–91
95
101
101–
102
109–
110
Ecocem Room, Level 2 113
Ecocem Room, Level 2 115
Liffey Hall 1, Level 1 57
For further information on Phase Two of the IBA Global Financial Crisis Project and the members of the Task Force, please visit the IBA website at
www.int-bar.org/Conferences/Dublin2012/info_14.cfm
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