36th LAWASIA Conference to be held from November 24-27; CJI DY Chandrachud among speakers

The 36th edition of the LAWASIA conference will be held from Friday, November 24 to Monday, November 27 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Bengaluru..The event will feature speakers from around forty jurisdictions in the Asia-Pacific region who will deliberate on the theme Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Lawyering in the Digital Age..President of LAWASIA Melissa K Pang and President of the Bar Association of India Prashant Kumar, along with Chief Minister of Karnataka Siddaramaiah, will render welcome speeches as part of the inaugural session.Other dignataries attending the inaugural event include Dr Soumya Swaminathan (Chairperson of the MS Swaminathan Research Doundation and former Scientist at WHO), Justice Brian J Preston (Chief Judge of the Land and Environment Court of NSW, Australia) and Professor Yasushi Higashizawa (Professor, Faculty of Law, Department of Law, Meijigakuin University).Closing remarks for the inaugural session will be given by Dr Gordon Hughes AM, Secretary General of LAWASIA..Sessions scheduled for the conference include:Human rights and the rule of law (including sessions on strengthening an independent judiciary, regulation of content on social media, the trend of 'guilty until proven innocent', rights of indigenous peoples and more); Business law (opening of legal markets to foreign lawyers and law firms, cryptocurrency in real estate transactions, anti-trust law etc.) Family law (emerging legal issues for queer families, rights of children, disability rights and the family, etc.); Employment law (labour rights in the gig economy); Intellectual property (issues arising from the use of Artificial Intelligence); Information technology (data protection and more); Environmental law (energy transition and energy security and more); Alternative dispute resolution (solutions from the digital age and more); Criminal law (crimes, torts and contract breaches in the world of AI, and more); Issues concerning Asia-Europe (AI/ Chat GPT in legal profession, etc.); Women lawyers (on the experience of women lawyers in a male-dominated profession) and more..Dignitaries slated to speak at the conference and its sessions over the weekend include Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and other Supreme Court judges, Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, AS Oka, BV Nagarathna, PS Narasimha and Aravind Kumar.Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court, Justice Prasanna B Varale, Justice Gautam Patel of the Bombay High Court and Justice Prathiba M Singh of the Delhi High Court are also among the speakers for various sessions.The sessions will also feature remarks by Justice Arjuna Obeyesekere of the Sri Lankan Supreme Court, Justice Sapana Pradhan Malla of the Supreme Court of Nepal, Justice Naima Haider of the High Court division of Bangladesh; Auen Kunkeaw, Research Justice of the Supreme Court, Thailand and Judge Douglas Humphreys, CSC OAM..Senior Advocates Amarjit Singh Chandhiok, President-elect of the Bar Association of India, and Shyam Divan, President-elect of LAWASIA will also be present.Attorney General R Venkataramani is slated to render a poetic interlude during the closing ceremony on Monday, November 27.Advocate Ejaz Maqbool, who practices before the Supreme Court of India, is scheduled to speak on Law and Humour in Indian Courts on November 26, Sunday. On November 27, Monday,Historian Ramachandra Guha will speak on the topic Ten Reasons Why Mahatma Gandhi Still Matters..The four day conference, which will conclude on November 27 (Monday), will also feature the final rounds of an International Moot Court Competition conducted by the MS Ramiah College of Law..[View Event Brochure]