Intl. Symp. on Law & its Applications for Sustainable Development - Topics

6th Intl. Symp. on Law & its Applications for Sustainable Development

SYMPOSIUM and ROUND TABLE TOPICS

In today's technical and global environment, the legal landscape must be understood and carefully examined in order to protect processes and IP and assure maximum ability to monetize investments and contractual agreements.

Increasing regulation and oversight create myriad land mines, and care must be taken at every step, from development of products, to enhancements to trade secret and IP protection, and effective and legal marketing in cross border environments.

Companies confront these opportunities and challenges on a daily basis.

Legal minds from across jurisdictions will be presenting and discussing how best to achieve these goals of protection and marketing with real examples for attendees. The latest legal developments and trends will be discussed in a setting that will allow for meaningful interaction.

The major topics include but will not be limited to:
Labor Law

Employment Contracts
Discrimination and Equal Opportunity
Wage & Hour Laws
Worker Safety & Health
Employee Benefits
International Labor Standards
Termination and Layoffs
Employee Privacy Rights

Medical Malpractice Law

Standard of Care
Negligence
Informed Consent
Types of Medical Malpractice

Misdiagnosis
Surgical Errors
Medication Errors
Failure and Improper Treatment

Medical Liability Insurance
Damages
Expert Testimony

Corporate Law

Corporate Governance
Corporate finance
Mergers and Acquisitions
Compliance and Ethics
Taxation and Litigation
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Emerging Issues In Sustainability and Lawyers' Roles

The role of law firms and their practices in carbon emissions, diversity and inclusion as well as other sustainability metrics

Role of bar associations and lawyer groups

Environment and social and governance (ESG) factors and corporate duties: The role of lawyers in anticipating and developing the law and aiding their clients in navigating uncertainty
Cutting edge issues of human sustainability, and the law

Privacy
AI
Neuro rights
The metaverse

Cutting edge environmental issues

Rights standing of a body of water to claim legal protection
Emerging regulatory models for mining and resource extraction

Access To Justice and Human Rights

International human rights agreements, institutions, reform
International human lights litigation
Security vs human rights
Pro bono and access to justice
Indigenous peoples and environmental issues
Migration and immigration
Of Law, Democracy, And Sustainable Self-Government
Private alternatives to weak states – arbitration of investor relations issues and private commercial disputes
Anticorruption
Disinformation, elections
Democratic decline and the lawyers’ voice

Free Trade Agreement negotiations
Investment disputes, anticorruption investigations and trade disputes
World Trade Organization, US trade policy, and customs, economic sanctions, and export controls topics

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Biometric Data litigation and facial recognition software, used in the pursuit of criminals and to regulate sporting events (the introduction of electronic of tech assisted referees).
Biometric Data as unique identifiers on the human body that allow for identification such as fingerprints, DNA, facial features in conjunction with facial recognition software. The improper use/storage and related numerous problems.
GDPR age where the storage and use of personal data are fiercely scrutinised: Controversies that test the boundaries of the regulations to be protected from impropriety.
Face recognition issues: In April 2018, an Illinois federal judge certified a class in their claim against a famous Internet company, alleging that its photo-scanning technology used to 'tag' people in posts, was in fact gathering and storing biometric data without consent. Under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act 2008, the company could be fined between $1000 - $5000 each time a person's image is used without consent. Experts say that the stored images are more valuable and more susceptible to hacking by identity thieves than names, credit card numbers and addresses. Whilst those details can be changed - biometric data is unique and immutable, which propels the concept of 'identity theft' into a whole new era of meaning.

Cryptocurrency: Economic Tonic or Rat Poison Squared?

The technology behind and the pitfalls of insufficient regulation.
Trade secrets
Consequences of lost passwords and loss of access keys to crypto accounts containing millions of irrecoverable funds. Do the accounts need to be hacked to retrieve the funds?
Cryptocurrency technology and the environmental/sustainability global impact. Cryptocurrency uses as much CO2 in a year as 1 million transatlantic flights. If blockchain and crypto are the future, is it really sustainable?

Reputational management

Managing both bad and fake news
Business Risk and Corporate Reputational Management
Turning Bad News into Manageable Information (Somebody Call the Spin Doctor!)
How can corporations deal with the aftermath of bad publicity when things go wrong either with technologies or products?
Saying Sorry, a new corporate culture. Recent examples of admitting liability.
What can publicly listed corporations say in public? Communication restrictions and the potential damage to reputation and stock prices when you say the wrong thing.
The link to Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Marvels in Science: Limitations in reality?

Funding and capital raisings for technology advances and new ideas (cannabis science, crypto, etc).
Managing expectations of what technology or new products can promise, versus the reality.
How inflated expectations and promises, can lead to legal ramifications.
Marketplace and market manipulation
Links to sustainability

CHAIRS

Mr. Lee Jay Berman
President
The Mediation Offices of Lee Jay Berman
USA, [Bio]

Lee Jay Berman began as a full-time mediator 31 years ago, and has successfully mediated
almost 3,000 matters, many of which were high profile cases. His honors and recognition
include:
-Chambers USA ranks him among the top commercial mediators in the U.S. annually since
2017, and in Band 1, among the top 24 commercial mediators in the U.S., since 2023
-He has been voted by his colleagues into the Who’s Who in Commercial Mediation
annually since 2012, where they consistently name him one of the 10 Global Thought
Leaders in North America.
-ADR Times named him to their inaugural “Who’s Who in ADR”.
-The Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel honored him with their 2024
Counsel of the Year Award for Excellence in ADR.
-The National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals (NADN) named him their inaugural
“Distinguished Neutral of the Year” in 2017.
-California’s Daily Journal twice named him “Top Neutral”.
-The Southern California Mediation Association has honored him with both their Cloke-
Millen Peacemaker of the Year (2021) and L. Randolph Lowry Award (2010) for his work
as a mediator, trainer, and thought leader in the field.
He is a AAA Master Mediator for employment matters, a national panelist on their commercial,
construction, entertainment and insurance panels, and a select mediator on their International
Center for Dispute Resolution mediation panel. He is a Distinguished Fellow with the
International Academy of Mediators, a Charter Diplomat with NADN, and was one of the first 5
U.S. mediators certified by the International Mediation Institute.
Also a popular trainer, Mr. Berman founded the American Institute of Mediation after seven years
as Director of Pepperdine Law School's Mediating the Litigated Case program (ranked #1
nationally). He has trained mediators, judges, attorneys, and business leaders across North
America, Mexico, Europe, and the Middle East, as well as India, Uzbekistan, Australia, and New
Zealand.
Lee Jay has been interviewed on dozens of podcasts, published numerous articles on mediation
and negotiation, and the American Bar Association will be publishing two of his books in 2025.
In addition to his professional endeavors, Mr. Berman is an active supporter of the TJ Martell
Foundation, raising money for cancer research, an annual supporting member of UCLA’s’ Bruin
Athletic Club of the Wooden Athletic Fund and a member of the UCLA Chancellor’s Society. He
is on the Board of the Jessica Berman Foundation, raising money for breast cancer research and
cerebral palsy, and he served for many years as a Trustee of Olive Crest Homes for Abused
Children, and as President of Kids at Heart.

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Mr. Hunter Carter, J.D.
Partner
ArentFox Schiff LLP
USA, [Bio]

Dr. Ian Freckelton, AO KC
Professor, Judge
Supreme Court of Nauru
Australia, [Bio]

Ian Freckelton has been a Judge of the Supreme Court of Nauru since 2017 and has been a member of eleven statutory tribunals at both Commonwealth and State level in Australia.

He is also King’s Counsel (a senior barrister / trial lawyer) in full time practice as a barrister throughout Australia and has been briefed in New Zealand, Thailand, Singapore and Papua New Guinea. He was admitted to the Bar in 1988 and took Silk in 2007. His practice is trial, appellate and advisory.

He is a Professor of Law and a Professorial Fellow in Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne, and an Honorary Professor of Forensic Medicine at Monash University and an Adjunct Professor at the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand, and the Queensland University of Technology, La Trobe University and Southern Cross University in Australia. He has also been an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University in the United States, teaching in its research integrity programme. He was the Commissioner at the Victorian Law Reform Commission which resulted in Australia’s first legislation legalising medicinal cannabis and is a Board member of the Coronial Council of Victoria.

Ian is the only person to elected as a Fellow of three learned Academies in Australia: the Academies of Health and Medical Sciences; Social Sciences; and Law, and is also an Honorary Fellow of the Australasian College of Legal Medicine. He is the co-chair of the Education Committee of the World Association of Medicine and Law.

Since 1992 Ian has been the Editor of the Journal of Law and Medicine and is also the Founding Editor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law and a former President of the Australian Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. He was a member of the Mental Health Tribunal of Victoria for 25 years, including for a time as its Acting President.

Ian has received awards for his pro bono and human rights work, and has been awarded challenge medals of appreciation by four of Australia’s police forces for his representation of their members.

Ian is the author of over 750 published articles and chapters of books, as well as more than 50 books, including the 1,500 page Expert Evidence: Law, Practice and Procedure (7th edn, Thomson Reuters, 2024), COVID-19 and the Law (OUP 2023), Australian Public Health Law (Federation Press, 2023) and Scholarly Misconduct and the Law (OUP, 2017). He is currently finalising a new edition of Coronial Law and Medicine, and is also completing a book on Automatism with co-authors in England, Sweden and New Zealand. He has given more than 800 scholarly presentations in nearly 50 countries. He is acknowledged as Australia’s leading scholar on medico-legal issues.

In 2021 Ian was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for “distinguished service to the law and the legal profession, across fields including health, science and technology”, and in 2024 he was awarded its highest honour by the International Academy of Law and Mental Health, the Prix Philippe Pinel.

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