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Neri Karra Sillaman is an advisor, speaker, and author, recently named to the Thinkers50 Radar List for 2024, recognizing her as one of the world's top 30 emerging management thinkers. She serves as an Entrepreneurship Expert at the University of Oxford and as an Adjunct Professor at ESCP Paris. Neri is also the founder of Neri Karra, a global luxury leather goods brand with over 25 years of partnerships with leading Italian labels. A former child refugee, Neri's journey fuels her passion for resilience, cultural innovation, and ethical business practices. Her thought leadership has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Forbes, and Fast Company, and she has been quoted in publications such as the Financial Times, CNBC, Newsweek, Vogue Business, Bloomberg, Business of Fashion, and WWD. She has spoken at organizations including Apple, Credit Suisse, Bernstein, the University of Cambridge, Forbes France, Baker McKenzie, the International Bar Association, and the Global Leaders Summit. A three-time TEDx speaker, she inspires leaders to build businesses that balance purpose with profit for lasting impact. Ok, get ready to be in complete awe - because not only does Neri have an incredible life story, but she is such a humble human. It is incredible what she has accomplished. I know you will be so inspired by her. We chat about: What it was like to be a child in communist Bulgaria who often went to bed hungry and the biggest thing that helped her imagine a beautiful life full of opportunity and education Her journey to graduating at the top of her class, getting a accepted the University of Miami in the U.S., and later getting her PHD at Cambridge How she became writer for top universities across the globe and a sought-after expert in the realm of sustainable fashion and entrepreneurship What inspired her to write a book, how she pivoted after it got rejected over 100 times, and how it all came together centered around immigrant entrepreneurship The #1 characteristic that she has found makes a successful, immigrant entrepreneur And so much more!   To learn more about Neri Karra Sillaman and the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes.   Follow Me On: Facebook Instagram

Unser heutiger Gast hat Rechtswissenschaften an der Universität Potsdam studiert und ihr Referendariat am Kammergericht Berlin absolviert. Sie arbeitet seit über 12 Jahren als Rechtsanwältin und seit 4 Jahren als Partnerin bei HÄRTING Rechtsanwälte, wo sie vor allem zu Themen wie Datenschutz, E-Commerce, Vertragsrecht und neuen Technologien berät. Als Co-Initiatorin des „IT-Juristinnentags“ und Mitherausgeberin der „Zeitschrift für das Recht der digitalen Wirtschaft (ZdiW)“ setzt sie sich für praxisnahe Lösungen bei digitalen Innovationen ein. Zudem engagiert sie sich als Officer & Vice Chair des Technology Law Committee der International Bar Association und als Co-Sprecherin des Arbeitskreises IT-Recht beim Berliner Anwaltsverein, um den rechtlichen Rahmen für die digitale Transformation kontinuierlich weiterzuentwickeln. Für ihre Arbeit im Bereich IT-Recht wurde sie 2023 vom Handelsblatt als „Anwältin des Jahres (IT-Recht)“ ausgezeichnet. Seit mehr als siebeneinhalb Jahren beschäftigen wir uns in diesem Podcast mit der Frage, wie Arbeit den Menschen stärkt, statt ihn zu schwächen. In über 470 Gesprächen haben wir mit fast 600 Persönlichkeiten darüber gesprochen, was sich für sie geändert hat und was sich weiter ändern muss. Wie navigieren wir durch den Dschungel neuer Tools, Plattformen und Technologien, ohne dabei die menschliche Komponente von „New Work“ zu verlieren? Welche Rolle spielen Rechtssicherheit und Datenschutz in einer Welt, in der Arbeitsprozesse immer digitaler und globaler werden? Wie kann die Juristerei selbst vom digitalen Wandel profitieren und gleichzeitig zu einer nachhaltigeren Arbeitswelt beitragen? Und schließlich fragen wir uns, warum Unternehmen heute einen AI-Officer haben sollten. Fest steht: Für die Lösung der aktuellen Herausforderungen brauchen wir neue Ideen, Perspektiven und Herangehensweisen. Daher suchen wir weiter nach Methoden, Vorbildern, Erfahrungen, Tools und Ideen, die uns dem Kern von New Work näherbringen. Darüber hinaus beschäftigt uns von Anfang an die Frage, ob wirklich alle Menschen das finden und leben können, was sie im Innersten wirklich, wirklich wollen. Ihr seid bei „On the Way to New Work“ – heute mit Marlene Schreiber. [Hier](https://linktr.ee/onthewaytonewwork) findet ihr alle Links zum Podcast und unseren aktuellen Werbepartnern

Here, the new co-chairs of the International Bar Association's Professional Wellbeing Commission reflect how much conversations around wellness in law continue to shift and what taking data-driven approaches will mean for businesses, leadership, and lawyers' advancement moving forward. In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, host Jerome Doraisamy speaks with Desi Vlahos and Lucinda Soon about the IBA's Professional Wellbeing Commission and what it does, where the legal profession is at – globally – in addressing holistic wellness issues, the introduction of workplace regulation and legislation to better protect employees from various hazards, and takeaways from recent research into the state of affairs for lawyers' wellness. Vlahos and Soon also delve into taking data-driven approaches to improve health and wellbeing in legal workplaces, how best law firms and businesses can practically implement data-driven approaches, the four streams that the IBA will focus attention on in 2025, and what excites them both about the future of wellness conversations in the legal profession worldwide. If you like this episode, show your support by  rating us or leaving a review on Apple Podcasts (The Lawyers Weekly Show) and by following Lawyers Weekly on social media: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. If you have any questions about what you heard today, any topics of interest you have in mind, or if you'd like to lend your voice to the show, email editor@lawyersweekly.com.au for more insights!

In this M&A in the City Podcast from KWM, Will Heath is joined by Nicola Charlston, fresh from chairing an M&A committee meeting of the International Bar Association in Tokyo.Together they discuss:- What has (finally) lifted the Nikkei back to its pre 1989 crash level- The drivers behind Japanese M&A - The Couche-Tard offer for 7-11- Japanese bidders going outbound- Domestic and regional politics' impact on dealmaking- The market outlook amongst M&A professionalsPLUS Tokyo must do's (and a must drink)!Look out for a further in-depth look at Japanese M&A in the coming edition of M&A in the City, out soon.

Asset Protection Attorney Blake Harris Shares How The Top 1% Protect Their Assets With Offshore Trusts Website: https://blakeharrislaw.com/ Bio: Blake Harris is the founding principal at Blake Harris Law, where he assists clients throughout the world with Offshore Asset Protection. Having traveled to over 40 countries, Blake has built an extensive global network by meeting with trust companies, protectors, and bankers worldwide. An accomplished author and international speaker, Blake has educated countless professionals through his continuing legal education lectures on asset protection and offshore planning. He has been quoted in numerous national publications, including Forbes, The Epoch Times, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox News, and MarketWatch. Beyond these accolades, Blake boasts a significant social media presence with hundreds of thousands of followers, further solidifying his influence in the field. With a seasoned background in wealth management, Blake Harris previously worked with one of America's premier wealth management firms, advising high and ultra-high-net-worth clients on strategies to safeguard their assets. His passion for helping families cultivate and preserve their legacy inspired him to establish Blake Harris Law, a firm deeply committed to providing tailored solutions and peace of mind for its clients. Blake's commitment to the field doesn't stop at his firm. He has consistently been recognized as a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers Magazine for the past 5 years and is an AV®️ Preeminent™️ Attorney. A proud alumnus of the University of Florida, Blake obtained a degree in finance in 2007 and went on to earn his Juris Doctorate from the University of Florida Levin College of Law in 2010, a top-tier law school. Blake is an active member of the American Bar Association, International Bar Association, the Florida Bar since 2010 (Florida Bar number: 86486), and the Colorado Bar since 2013 (Colorado Bar number: 45942). Blake resides in Miami Beach, in his limited free time, he enjoys traveling internationally, swimming in the ocean, and Muay Thai training. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/smartmoneycircle/support

Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León rompió su silencio de 24 años y embistió a la Cuarta Transformación con una dura advertencia: la Reforma Judicial impulsada por el presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador destruirá al Poder Judicial y, con ello, "enterrará la democracia mexicana y lo que quede de su frágil Estado de Derecho".El expresidente priista lanzó dicha crítica en la Sesión Inaugural de la International Bar Association, evento de una organización que aglutina a abogados, colegios profesionales jurídicos y asociaciones de derecho de todo el planeta, que se llevará a cabo del 15 al 20 de septiembre en la Ciudad de México.Grupo Fórmula #AbriendoLaConversación

In 2015, having recently left her job at the International Bar Association, Rebecca Lowe was transitioning to freelance journalism. Aiming to collect stories from the Middle East to help build her new career path, she set out on an 11,000km, 20-country solo cycle ride from London to Tehran, via Europe, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan, Oman, the UAE, and Iran. The journey lasted a year, and collect stories she did. While she didn't originally intend for the journey to lead to a book, when the opportunity arose, she took on the project and wrote The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East, which was shortlisted for the 2023 Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year. This podcast episode focuses on both her incredible journey through the Middle East and the book that came out of it. During the episode, Rebecca talks about how she approached the idea of risk vs. recklessness as a solo female traveler, what traveling through the Middle East as a woman was really like, the highs and lows of her journey, how she balanced out the seriousness of the problems facing the Middle East with a healthy sense of humor, and more. If you enjoy this episode, don't forget to review the podcast and subscribe -- it means the world!

KWM Public M&A Partner Nicola Charlston and private capital / M&A Partner Anthony Boogert recently returned from International Bar Association's annual M&A conference in New York. Together they provide a short and sharp wrap up of the hot topics in discussion in NY:Global M&A trends The outlook for public and private equity markets and IPOsThe US electionKey sectors like tech and healthcare, Geopolitics and regulatory risk like competition policy The 'three D's' driving dealmaking

This week's episode of Counsel Culture is brought to you all the way from Paris, as a week of knowledge sharing and networking at the IBA draws to a close. Joining Meg this week is Mark Stephens CBE, Founder of and Partner at Howard Kennedy and Co-Chair of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute.  They discuss Mark's IBA experience so far, his work in decriminalising homosexuality and SLAPPs. 

Today's interlocutor is Mark Stephen Ellis, an expert in international criminal law, executive director of the International Bar Association.

New Zealand's anti-money laundering (AML) regime could be simplified and improved, although care would need to be taken to avoid jeopardising our good standing in the international community, not to stop information flow to the police, and to avoid creating loopholes criminals can exploit, says leading AML lawyer Gary Hughes.Hughes speaks about the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act, which has just notched up 10 years since taking effect, in a new episode of interest.co.nz's Of Interest podcast.The Act's impact is widely felt. This isn't surprising given the police describe businesses operating in the financial, legal, property and high value goods markets as being at the frontline for countering illicit activity, while describing themselves as the last line of defence against money laundering and terrorism financing. As an election approaches, both the National and ACT parties are making noises about lessening the AML/CFT burden on businesses, which the Ministry of Justice estimates costs NZ about $260 million a year.Hughes, an Auckland-based barrister who chairs the AML and Sanctions Experts Committee at the International Bar Association, sees "a good deal of scope for simplifying and improving the regime," thus potentially making compliance for businesses easier. He gives the example of a code of practice around identity verification for small businesses, noting there can be too much tick box regulation and a one size fits all approach.But he says care needs to be taken."You don't want to lose the benefits of good standing in the international community. We're now seen by the FATF [Financial Action Taskforce] and others as doing very well in this regard. And also you don't want to lose the information flow to the police or create loopholes that criminals are rich enough or cunning enough to exploit. So it's always a balancing act," Hughes says.In the podcast Hughes also talks about how to measure the extent to which the Act is preventing money laundering and terrorism financing, what the impetus behind the Act was, why FATF is described as "the most powerful international body you've never heard of," how the Act is instrumental in collecting key data and evidence for police, why he thinks NZ should have one AML/CFT Act supervisor instead of three, what happens to the thousands of suspicious activity and transaction reports, whether the regime is outcomes focused enough, financial exclusion and more."People say it's too costly and it's a handbrake on business. And yes it is partly. But equally some of those businesses, if you look at the banking sector, are making enormous profits and have very good information that I would think why shouldn't they be forced to actually use some of that and pass on the intelligence to support the law enforcement efforts? I don't think you can take all the cream out of the economy and not offer something back," says Hughes.*You can find all episodes of the Of Interest podcast here.

As I wrangle Rabbi Boyarsky from his office to the podcast studio, he asks me if I kept my end of our deal and if I put tefflin on every day for a hundred days.  I responded, “I'm not perfect, but I substantially complied.”  Rabbi Boyarsky snaps at me, “I disagree.  You are perfect.”   I have recorded over 100 episodes in the studio where we filmed this one.  Never has anyone remembered the studio engineer's name.  Rabbi Boyarsky interacted with him and thanked him on a first name basis as we closed.  I kept that in at the end of the episode.    Rabbi Zvi Boyarsky has a lot on his shoulders.  He's a director for the Aleph Institute –or Aleph– as their employees and clients call it.  Aleph is a humanitarian nonprofit org for prisoners' rights.     Rabbi Boyrasky's signature is an unfailing smile.  But the first night I began to do work for Aleph, he looked like he hadn't slept or smiled in a week.     I asked what has been keeping him up all night.  The question energizes him.     “There's a Holocaust going on right now in Afghanistan.”     This was the summer of 2021.  The United States had for decades artificially shored up Afghanistan, and suddenly the U.S. military presence vanished.  I knew this much from the news but didn't understand the urgency in Rabbi Boyarsky's dark green eyes.     He said: “Taliban gunmen control Kabul's airport.  These terrorists are going door to door hunting down judges that prosecuted them, especially the women judges.  Taliban are slaughtering women for having the audacity to be judges. We're trying to get them out.”    Reb Zvi was talking about using political connections Aleph had developed with Qatar, a rich neighboring Arab country with influence over the Taliban, to coordinate bus transport of a hundred women judges and their dependents to Pakistan.  I wanted to help.       “What can I do?”     I learned that Aleph had been working on this nonstop since Rabbi Boyarsky saw the news unfold.  They had linked with a Baroness in London (Helena Kennedy, Queens Counsel, and President of the International Bar Association) as well as U.S.-based, International Association of Women Judges who had their members in Afghanistan at mortal risk.     The Taliban had publicly called for the killing of many of these judges.  The terrorists were bombarding the judiciary members' phones with death threats and videos of them murdering other judges.  They were out for blood.  Their lethal attacks were aimed on these judges because they had ordered them behind bars for rape, murder, or lesser crimes.  Now these criminals were free and suddenly in power.  Under chaos, darkness, and gunfire the women were running with their families to safehouses to avoid capture.     Rabbi Boyarsky's efforts with many others chartered planes filled with refugees to Greece and the U AE.  Next, Aleph and the IAWJ are linking families with government officials for visas.  Many judges found refuge in Germany and Canada who have been more receptive to admitting Afghan refugees.  Justice Susan Glazebrook, acting Judge for the Supreme Court of New Zealand and President of the IAWJ, as well as the immediate past president of the IAWJ, Judge Vanessa Ruiz of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals led this endeavor with Aleph.  Aleph turned its focus on the United States to lift asylum red tape.  (Notice how in a big way this was a women-helping-women effort, which is its own dimension of inspiration.)       One Aleph donor is a Hasidic Jew that prefers to keep a low profile.  He provided the primary resources to assist one chartered plane.  He wished to refer to the evacuation operation as “Schmendel” a nonsensical Yiddish word.  His goal was to draw attention far away from his involvement, associates, and money he generously contributed to the mission.  This resulted in some broken telephone that made the Afghan refugees believe that the person's actual name that funded the plane was Schmendel.  Thus, they held signs and took pictures of themselves on the plane and in Greece thanking Aleph and Mr. Schmendel.   These Afghan judges were at the height of their society, and they had risked a lot to get there, and suddenly they found themselves with nothing, with a new need to rebuild lives from scratch in foreign lands.  My grandparents survived the Holocaust and had to do this with no outside help.  Nothing can erase the events that caused the plight of these people but knowing that there are people are out there fighting to help and doing whatever they can to help must be inspiring to them. It's inspiring to me.     Rabbi Boyarsky embodies the Aleph slogan: No one forgotten.  No one left behind.     I was introduced to Rabbi Boyarsky through Rabbi Yitzy Horowitz.  A special person that has created community for me and my family and for whom I'm very grateful.   To donate to Aleph, click here: https://aleph-institute.org/wp/donation/ 

Partners Nicola Charlston and Anthony Boogert are fresh back from the International Bar Association's M&A Conference in New York. Together they discuss the mood on M&A's mercurial start to 2023. Why have things been slow, where are the bright spots, and most importantly, what will catalyse a comeback?To access a transcript and takeaways from their conversation, as well as links to the other articles discussed, head to: https://www.kwm.com/au/en/insights/latest-thinking/publication/m-and-a-in-the-city-2023-june.html

We are delighted to present this podcast focusing on trends in international law firm expansion, with Partners Corinne Staves and Zulon Begum and special guest, Robert Bata, Founder and Principal of WarwickPlace Legal. In this detailed Q&A led by Corinne, with leading experts Robert and Zulon, the fascinating and wide-ranging discussion covers (among other things): • Recent trends in law firm international expansion • Liberalisation and opportunities in the Indian market • The continuing rise of Singapore and the continued relevance of Hong Kong • Post-Brexit significance of London and Dublin • Cultural alignment and the integration of new jurisdictions into an existing legal and cultural framework Listen to the podcast here Robert Bata is the Founder and a Principal at WarwickPlace Legal, a consultancy focused exclusively on formulating and implementing cross border expansion strategies for leading law firms. Robert practised M&A law with prominent US and European law firms, as well serving in law firm management capacities and lecturing regularly on these topics. Zulon Begum is a specialist professional practices lawyer with extensive expertise in international law firm structures, governance and transactions. She serves on the Law Firm Management Committee of the International Bar Association. Corinne Staves also advises law firms and professional services firms on a range of issues, including launches, partner moves, governance, profit sharing and mergers. She is a former Chair of the Association of Partnership Practitioners. If you are a partnership or LLP and would like to find out how we can assist you in relation to expansion, or if you have any other questions arising from this podcast, please contact Zulon Begum or Corinne Staves.

Dore Ferriz platica con Adolfo Solís Doctor en Derecho Constitucional y fiscal sobre la exigencia de la International Bar Association para que Andrés Manuel López Obrador detenga los ataques contra la SCJN, Alejandra Llanos Coordinadora de Educación y Finanzas del CIEP habla sobre el gasto de la SEP por 381,611 millones de pesos, Adriana Braniff nos informa sobre el reclamo de el gobierno de Guatemala contra el Presidente AMLO.

Today on The Neil Haley Show, Neil "The Media Giant" Haley and Caregiver Dave will interview Sara Sayed - His Only Son.   As a child in her conservative Islamic school in Tehran, an impromptu dance routine led Seyed to a month of disciplinary probation which in turn formed the path for a lifelong devotion to the fight against oppression. Seyed pursued a career in International Law out of London, and worked with Amnesty International and the International Bar Association in protecting victims of domestic violence. In 2016, she began her professional career in acting upon her acceptance into the American Repertory at Harvard University.  

Today on The Neil Haley Show, Neil "The Media Giant" Haley and Caregiver Dave will interview Sara Sayed - His Only Son.   As a child in her conservative Islamic school in Tehran, an impromptu dance routine led Seyed to a month of disciplinary probation which in turn formed the path for a lifelong devotion to the fight against oppression. Seyed pursued a career in International Law out of London, and worked with Amnesty International and the International Bar Association in protecting victims of domestic violence. In 2016, she began her professional career in acting upon her acceptance into the American Repertory at Harvard University.

Please review all the links below of what I (Roy) Mentioned on this Podcast Activation Products + my other Services https://www.awakeningpodcast.org/store/ As mentioned on the show you can find Robbie's interview on the Speaking Podcast https://www.podpage.com/speaking-podcast/207-having-passion-for-excellence-robbie-phoenixx-zeas/ About my Guest: Robbie Phoenixx is an industry recognized competitive intelligence expert and artist. Robbie works with Fortune 1000 industry titans from Live Nation and Amazon Prime Video to Verizon, AT&T and more directly contributing $254 million+ in new revenues. Robbie loves to share how to leverage one's creative advantage to become your competitive advantage for entrepreneurs and top business leaders. He looks forward to working with your business as a keynote speaker, executive coach and strategic marketing advisor! Robbie's was featured as a guest speaker to 40,000+ attendees by the International Bar Association, and interviewed on nationally syndicated TV to 7.1 million U.S. households on the Donna Drake TV Show broadcasted by CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, the CW and more. Robbie Phoenixx has over 35,000 total organic social media followers (LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook) and welcomes you joining his growing tribe! What we Discussed: - The distributions Systems based on Cost - 298 Birds fell from sky in Germany for 5G testing - Hiding 5G in Mall Signs and Churches - Microwaves Leaking and the dangers they cause - The dangers of wireless earphone and Bluetooth - Wireless industry admits no studies show 5G technology is safe - Toxic fumes and waste - Stop being loyal to the dollar and make decisions to stop the problems - 5G satellites put without the peoples agreement and more Links https://www.emfcall.org/ https://www.emfcall.org/the-emf-call/ https://politicalbullpen.com/t/wireless-headphones-could-pump-radiation-into-your-brain-cause-cancer-and-kill-you/2437 https://www.health.com/condition/cancer/bluetooth-wireless-headphones-cancer https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_industryweapons207.htm https://www.takebackyourpower.net/ https://www.takebackyourpower.net/senate-hearing-wireless-industry-confesses-no-studies-showing-5g-safety/ https://worldtruth.tv/russia-bans-the-use-of-microwave-ovens/ How to Contact Robbie: LinkedIn: LinkedIn/in/robertzeas Twitter: @SonicBandFan Facebook: Facebook/SonicOctaneOfficial ========================= More about Roy: Activation Products + my other Services https://www.awakeningpodcast.org/store/ All Podcasts + Coaching and Social Media https://bio.link/podcaster https://awakeningpodcast.org/ Donations  https://www.awakeningpodcast.org/support/

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In the last episode of Tech Law Bits for now Martin speaks about his own table topic. Co-moderator of this round will be Jessica Lee, partner at the law firm of Loeb & Loeb in New York. Our topic at the round tables and in this talk will be data transfer to the U.S. Jessica briefly introduces the content of President Biden's Executive Order and explains why this really is novel. Martin touches upon the European Data Protection Board's opinion on the Draft Implementing Decision of the European Commission on the adequate protection of personal data under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. We will be discussing with the attendees of our round table why data transfers are crucial in technology transactions and how the issue comes into play. We will touch upon both the diligence before completion of the deal, as well as the potential migration of data post closing.

Florian Müller from Switzerland and Martin Schirmbacher introduce the topic Florian will host together with Mathias Nordmann of SKW in Munich: NFT and crypto challenges. Florian briefly explains what NFT actually are and we discuss whether the hype on NFT is already over and how the general idea will live on in certain business models. The crypto angle lies with decentralized autonomous organization (DAO's) and the question how the involvement of this technology influences diligence processes and transactions in general.

Philipp will moderate his round table together with Oliver Süme of Fieldfisher in Hamburg, Germany. And their topic is the up and coming Digital Services Act. Martin and Philipp discuss how the new DSA affects technology M&A in the future and how DSA-compliance will be an important part of due diligences in the online services industry (and not only there). We also mention the unclear scope of the DSA and how clients deal with this.

In this episode Martin Schirmbacher speaks with expert Prof. Eric Wagner from Stuttgart, Germany, on Product liability for automated and semi-automated systems. They start with clarifying that the automation of systems is actually much more than autonomous driving vehicles. Eric than differentiates between contractual obligations and tort law. We briefly touch upon the changed European legislation on digital products and the obligation of sellers (and manufacturers) to provide updates to software. Eric then speaks about developments in product liability laws and how to deal with the risks involved in diligence processes before M&A transactions.

The table on "Earnouts" will be moderated by Lise Lotte Hjerrild from Copenhagen, Denmark, Ariella Dreyfuss from Tel Aviv, Israel, and Richard Burrows, from London, U.K. With Ariella and Lise Lotte Martin Schirmbacher speaks on legal issues to have in mind when it comes to agreeing to earnouts in transactions in the technology sector. We especially touch upon the issues lawyers should have in mind when drafting earnout clauses from both the sellers' as well as the buyers' perspective. Further we discuss why earnout clauses are especially equipped to bridge the gap between seller's and buyer's ideas on evaluation especially in med tech companies and start-ups that have not yet proofed that the market is ready or their product.

In another episode of "Tech Law Bits" Martin Schirmbacher speaks with two fellow tech lawyers Elisabeth Vestin from Stockholm, Sweden and Harry Rubin from New York, USA. Their topic at the round table session of the 6th Mergers and Acquisitions in the Technology Sector Conference in Berlin will be "Co-opetition licenses and arrangements". We discuss what role co-opetition arrangements play nowadays and what potential controversial issues there are. After quickly lying out that co-opetition is an agreement of co-operation between competitors, we discuss that there might be antitrust issues, but that the real problems are of contractual nature. We speak about best practices in confidentiality as well as licensing.

The table on "Exchange of information during transactions – competition law" will have three moderators: Laura Ziferman from Vilnius, Lithuania, and two Hamburgers: Hans Henning Hoff and Tim Reher. Martin Schirmbacher speaks with Laura and Hans on how the exchange of information during a transaction becomes a competition law issue and what potential consequences would be. We hear in what way the technology sector is particularly vulnerable to illegal exchange of information. We especially touch upon the introduction of clean teams as part of a solution to avoid cartel authorities stepping in.

In this episode of Tech Law Bits Martin Schirmbacher speaks with Gisèle Rosselle of Strelia in Brussels, Belgium and Maire O'Neill of William Fry in Dublin, Ireland. Their topic at the round table session of the 6th Mergers and Acquisitions in the Technology Sector Conference in Berlin will be due diligences in M&A deals and how to approach them effectively. Gisellle and Maire will discuss different approached to diligence processes and how these depend on various factors, e.g. the experience, size and long term interest of the potential buyer.

The table on "A.I. in M&A Transactions" will have three moderators: Johan Hübner from Stockholm, Sweden, Norman Heckh from Madrid, Spain and Torsten Kraul from Berlin, Germany. The three explain to Martin Schirmbacher the three different angles to the topic that they intend to take during the round table discussions at the Berlin conference: - Regulatory: How is the use of Artificial Intelligence currently regulated and what will the AI Act bring? - Transactional: What are the peculiarities of transactions involving A.I. solutions on the target's side? - Practical: How can lawyers profit from A.I. solutions in their legal tech applications?

Merger Control and FDI issues is the hot topic of Olivia Lê Horovitz from Paris and Falk Schöning from Berlin. The two explain to the host Martin Schirmbacher what the issue with Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) actually is and how 'national security' as the reason behind any regulation has become broader and broader. It is explained why FDI-regulation especially concerns technology deals and who the relevant authority is. We also speak about antitrust issues and whether these lead to a decrease in tech deals (spoiler: not really). There are many more questions - table 12 is going to be hot!

Another exiting episode of "Tech Law Bits" where Martin Schirmbacher interviews Alethea Au from Toronto, Canada and Moritz Maurer from Zurich, Switzerland. Their topic at the round table session of the 6th Mergers and Acquisitions in the Technology Sector Conference in Berlin will be on insuring reps and warranties. Alethea and Moritz will discuss challenges in tech transactions when insurers of representations and warranties come into play. We speak about the consequences of a third party appearing in technology deals.

In the next episode of "Tech Law Bits" Martin Schirmbacher speaks with Raphael Dana of Dana.Law from Paris, France, on his table topic during the Hot Topics Roundtables session. Together with Astrid Wagner of Arendt in Luxemburg and Roland Marko of Wolf Theiss in Vienna, Austria, he will speak about data protection issues in cloud computing. The three will discuss where cloud computing issues can be obsticles in technology transactions. The scenario they will be discussing is an American Investment Fund intending to invest in a European company from the health care sector with all their systems in various clouds world wide. Fun coming in :-)

In this episode of "Tech Law Bits" Martin Schirmbacher speaks with Rabindra Jhunjhunwala from Mumbai, India and Raz Tepper from Tel Aviv, Israel. Their topic at the round table session of the 6th Mergers and Acquisitions in the Technology Sector Conference in Berlin will be bad news: It is on downrounds in the technology sector. The title is: "When the sky gets cloudy: Dealing with financing challenges / Downrounds". Attendees will talk about how to deal with the need for fresh money when evaluation goes down and how to avoid downrounds.

In this first episode of "Tech Law Bits" Martin Schirmbacher interviews Elisa Henry of BLG in Montreal, Canada and Erik Valgaeren of Stibbe in Brussels, Belgium on their table topic during the Hot Topics Roundtables session. Before jumping to the topic Erik briefly explains what the around the tables session is all about and how attendees can participate. Topic of Table #13 is Data privacy: lessons learned and future outlook. Thus colleagues visiting this table will discuss newest developments in privacy issues and the relevance for tech deals.

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In the second episode of "Tech Law Bits" Martin Schirmbacher speaks with Soeren Skibsted of Kromann Reumert in Copenhagen, Denmark on his table topic during the Hot Topics Roundtables session. Together with Joacim Johannesson and the attendees in the three rounds Soeren will discuss how to find and avoid IT security risks as a buyer in technology transactions.

In an abrupt shift away from decades of tradition, Ukraine’s current National Bar arose from the adoption of a new model in 2013. The “Law On the Bar and Practice of Law” emerged amid recurring east-west tensions and pressures for domestic reform. This legislation produced an all-Ukrainian, non-governmental, non-profit organization that promotes adjudicatory reform. It has been recognized by the International Bar Association and the European Council of Bars and Law Societies. Join Dr. Valentyn Gvozdiy, Vice President of the Ukrainian National Bar Association, for a conversation led by George Bogden regarding the origin of this independent body. Featuring: Dr. Valentyn Gvozdiy, Vice President, Ukrainian National Bar Association Moderator: Dr. George Bogden, George F. Kennan Fellow, Kennan Institute, and Olin Fellow, Columbia Law School.

The Corporation Of The City Of London•     City of London, municipal corporation and borough, London, England. Sometimes called “the Square Mile,” it is one of the "33" boroughs that make up the large metropolis of Greater London.   The borough lies on the north bank of the River Thames between the Temple Bar memorial pillar (commemorating the old Temple Bar gate) and the base of Tower Hill. The City Corporation is Britain's oldest local government; it has the status of a county, with powers that exceed those of London's "32" other boroughs, notably the control of its own police force. “The City,” as it is known, is only a component, relatively small in area, of the larger urban area known as London. Its area corresponds closely to that of the ancient city from which modern London has grown. The City belongs geographically to the historic county of Middlesex, but its special status and privileges gave it autonomy from that county for most of its history.   Britannica     The Latin motto of the City is Domine dirige nos, which translates as "Master, direct (guide) us". It appears to have been adopted in the 17th century, as the earliest record of it is in 1633. A banner of the arms (the design on the shield) is flown as a flag of the City.     14 dragon statues guarding the city of London. Many other depictions of Dragons adorn various buildings. Some inside, & some on the outer structure. Two at the main gates of the city. The crest of the city has the two dragons with the white shield and a Red Cross, & sword. The cross, & sword resemble upside down crosses. The official explanation says the crest is an homage to St. George was depicted in a fictional story saving a princess from a dragon. The story was loosely based on   St. George being a Templar Knight, & is often depicted in armor riding a stallion.   The Knight's Templar flags were also white with red crosses.   https://londonist.com/london/secret/dragon     Must Watch!   Occult Symbolism On Buildings In The Corporation Of The City Of London   https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2yv8x4     Same Video On YT   https://youtu.be/M9eHVWMF3XU     Another Great Video Showing More Symbolism In The City   https://youtu.be/8lMpTrgqt0M     More Symbolism   https://andrewgough.co.uk/london/       Gog, & Magog Symbolism In London   https://londonist.com/2016/01/gog-and-magog-who-are-they-and-what-do-they-have-to-do-with-london     We learned earlier that the Corporation City Of London is a, or the, most important city in the world for finance. Not to mention, a tax haven, & overseer of other British-controlled tax havens like the Cayman Islands, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, the BVI, Gibraltar, & Bermuda.     Elite City of London Taxhavens   American banks moved their assets to "the City" to escape regulations.   Secrecy Jurisdictions, Cayman Islands...   https://youtu.be/-YgFDZNXPyg     The Templar Temple happens to be located in the Corporation City Of Government. The very place they ran their banking empire. Also, remember that one other other main hubs for The Templars was in Switzerland. Still famous for its banks. Not to mention, suspiciously the home of the Bank For International Settlements. Explain BIS. Like the Templars, the Corporation of The City Of London is exempt from laws that others have to go by. The connections are too much to ignore.     List of banks in London   http://www.ukcities.co.uk/City_of_London/Financial_Services/Banks_and_Building_Societies/     City of London ‘set for exemption from new global tax rules'   https://www.cityam.com/city-of-london-set-for-exemption-from-new-global-tax-rules/     Another connection•     It's well known, & even admitted in some circles that Freemasonry is the offspring of The Templars. Freemasonry is predominant in the square mile. The honorable Lord Mayor of the city is closely aligned with Freemasonry, & many Lord Mayors have been Masons. As many as 5000 Freemasons March in the yearly parade celebrating the election of the new Lord Mayor. The alleged oldest Masonic Lodge is located in the city. Author Stephen Knight wrote two detailed books about the influence of Freemasonry in London. He focused especially on the various police forces, & how Masonry had created a true good ole boy network which allowed numerous criminal acts to go unpunished. Stephen explains a little bit about the structure of government in the city.     Knights Templars   Hidden History: World Controllers, Knights Templars, City of London, Unknown American History (1of2)   https://sarahwestall.com/hidden-history-world-controllers-knights-templars-city-of-london-unknown-american-history-1of2/       Stephen Knight Book Excerpts   https://x-cain.angelfire.com/cityoflondon.html     Oldest Grand Lodge In London   https://www.thetravel.com/the-oldest-masonic-grand-lodge/     Freemasons Hall   https://www.countrylife.co.uk/architecture/grand-lodge-the-freemasons-hall-london-a-temple-to-peace-236315     Over 5,000 Freemasons and the Lord Mayor Attend the Services. Send any friend a story.   https://www.nytimes.com/1897/12/03/archives/bicentenary-at-st-pauls-over-5000-freemasons-and-the-lord-mayor.html     Lord Mayor Procession   https://londonist.com/2015/11/deaths-hate-and-cancellations-800-years-of-the-lord-mayor-s-show?ref=related_links     The Lord Mayor Of London     The Guildhall Lodge was consecrated at the Mansion House, the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London, on Tuesday, 14 November 1905. Since then, no fewer than sixty-two Lord Mayors have been Masters of the Lodge, whose membership comprises both elected members of the Corporation of London and its salaried officers.   https://erenow.net/common/the-brotherhood-the-secret-world-of-the-freemasons/25.php     Mansion House   https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-us/about-the-city-of-london-corporation/mansion-house/about-mansion-house     The Remembrancer   Three Corporations run the world: City of London, Washington DC and Vatican City | sinhalanet.net     The City Of London Livery Companies   https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-us/law-historic-governance/livery-companies     In "The City" of London, Corporations get to vote, & make up about 3/4 of all voters.   https://youtu.be/z1ROpIKZe-c     The medieval, unaccountable Corporation of London is ripe for protest   https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/oct/31/corporation-london-city-medieval     The International Bar Association Is Now located in the Temple Church where the Templar headquarters was located.     The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, commonly known as the Inner Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court and is a professional associations for barristers and judges. To be called to the Bar and practise as a barrister in England and Wales, a person must belong to one of these Inns. It is located in the wider Temple area, near the Royal Courts of Justice, and within the City of London.   https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_Temple     Bar Association   http://theftbydeception.blogspot.com/2010/02/bar-association-history-who-owns-us.html?m=1     "Leading justice scholars in the system of the UK are well aware that ....the Temple Church as the cradle of Common Law"   https://knightstemplarorder.org/heritage/templar-magna-carta/     The Conspiracy About The Bar Association     Quote:   "The government and legal system of the United States, Canada, Austraila, New Zealand and of course Britain, is totally controlled by the Crown. I have also stated that the British Monarch is not the Crown. The Crown is the Inner City of London, which is an independent State in London belonging to the Vatican system. It is a banking cartel which has a massive system around and beneath, which hides its true power.
The City is in fact the Knights Templar Church, also known as the Crown Temple or Crown Templar, and is located between Fleet Street and Victoria Embankment. The Temple grounds are also home to the Crown Offices at Crown Office Row. The Crown Temple controls the Global'Legal'system, including those in the United States, Canada,Australia, and much more; this is because all Bar Associations are franchises of the
International Bar Association at the Inns of Court at Crown Temple based at Chancery Lane in London.
   All Bar Associations are franchises of the Crown and all Bar Attorneys/ Barristers throughout the world pledge a solemn oath to the Temple, even though many may not be aware that this is what they are doing. Bar Association 'licensed' Solicitors / Barristers must keep to their Oath, Pledge and terms of allegiance to the Crown Temple if they are to be "called to the Bar" and work in the legal profession. The ruling Monarch is also subordinate to the Crown Temple, this as been so since the reign of King John in the 13th century when Royal Sovereignty was transferred to the Crown Temple and, through this, to the Roman Church.
King John 1167-1216 is the key to this deception."     "The present Queen of England is not the "Crown," as we have all been led to believe. Rather, it is the Bankers and Attornies (Attorneys) who are the actual Crown or Crown Temple. The Monarch aristocrats of England have not been ruling sovereigns since the reign of King John, circa 1215. All royal sovereignty of the old British Crown since that time has passed to the Crown Temple in Chancery.
The U.S.A. is not the free and sovereign nation that our federal government tells us it is. If this were true, we would not be dictated to by the Crown Temple through its bankers and attornies. The U.S.A. is controlled and manipulated by this private foreign power and our unlawful Federal U.S. Government is their pawnbroker.
The bankers and Bar Attorneys in the U.S.A. are a franchise in oath and allegiance to the Crownat Chancery - the Crown Temple Church and its Chancel located at Chancery Lane - a manipulative body of elite bankers and attorners from the independent City of London who violate the law in America by imposingfraudulent "legal"
- but totally unlawful - contracts on the American people. The banks Rule the Temple Church and the Attorners carry out their Orders by controlling their victim's judiciary."   "The legal system (judiciary) of the U.S.A. is controlled by the CrownTemple from the independent and sovereign City of London. The private Federal Reserve System, which issues fiat U.S. Federal Reserve Notes, is financially owned and controlled by the Crown from Switzerland, the home and legal origin for the charters of the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, and most importantly, the Bank of International Settlements.
Even Hitler respected his Crown bankers by not bombing Switzerland. The Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland [Vatican bank] controls all the central banks of the G7 nations.
He who controls the gold rules the world."   "The people who comprise the citizenry of a state are recognised only within natural and common law as is already established by God's Law. Only a State Citizen can be a party to an action within a State Court.
A common state citizen cannot be recognised in that court because he doesn't legally exist in Crown Chancery Courts. In order to be recognised in their State Courts, the common man must be converted to that of a corporate or legal entity (a legal fiction).
Now you know why they create such an entity using all capital letters within Birth Certificates issued by the State. They convert the common lawful man of God into a fictional legal entity subject to Administration by State Rules, Orders and Codes (there is no "law" within any Rule or Code). Of course, Rules, Codes, etc. do not apply to the lawful common man of the Lord of lords, so the man with inherent Godly law and rights must be converted into a legal "Person" of fictional "status" (another legal term) in order for their legal - but completely unlawful - State Judiciary (Chancery Courts) to have authority over him."   The CrownTemple
Article By: Rule of Mystery Babylon
The Templars of the Crown     https://wakeup-world.com/2013/11/05/the-crown-empire-and-the-city-of-london-corporation/

For any questions, suggestions or queries, you can follow and reach out to us on twitter https://twitter.com/AbhasMishra or our website https://anchor.fm/abhas-mishra Let's welcome Advocate Jayant Bhatt on this podcast. He is one of the most successful lawyers of his generation and practices in various jurisdictions primarily in Delhi. Son of an ITBP officer and primary school teacher, he inherited the qualities of commitment, comradery and a drive to spread knowledge. He holds dual Masters of Law from New York University, USA and National University of Singapore. He is a member of International Bar Association besides being a member of Supreme Court Bar Association and Delhi High Court Bar Association. Adv, Jayant Bhatt's chambers looks after matters involving complex and substantial questions of Constitutional, Commercial, Criminal, Arbitration, Employment, Energy, Oil & Gas and other related laws in various Courts, Tribunals and other adjudicatory bodies across the country and the chambers caters to varied clients comprising of Governmental and Non-Governmental Bodies, Multinationals, Financial Institutions and individuals in an array of matters. Apart from his incredibly successful professional journey, he continues to mentor and inspire the next generation of lawyers through mentoring, internships and meaningful social media interactions. He is a prolific speaker and frequently delivers talks and lectures both in-person and in webinar formats. His YouTube Channel: “Sue you Soon” provided great content during the lockdown period of pandemic and served as one of the inspirations for this audio channel. In this episode, he talks about importance of colleges, practicing in different jurisdictions, use of social media for a lawyer and charting a path in the profession as a successful litigator. I hope this episode will help you in your personal journey just like it helped me. Follow Sh. Jayant Bhatt on: https://www.youtube.com/@SueYouSoon https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayant-bhatt-995318166/ Views and opinions expressed by the guest are their own and do not reflect the opinions of the channel or the host. None of the views are meant to malign any religion, ethnicity, caste, organization, company or individual. The contents of the show are meant to spread awareness and should not be considered legal advice. Do not imply solicitation. The host will not accept any liability for the actions of the listener. Always consult a lawyer. LinkedIN profile of our Chambers: https://www.linkedin.com/company/76478950/ कानूनी कहानियों और व्याख्यान के लिए सुनें Kanooni Kisse

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the legal community has been involved in establishing and implementing mechanisms to obtain accountability for atrocity crimes. Dr. Mark Ellis, Executive Director of the International Bar Association, speaks about those efforts and the important roles played by Ukrainian attorneys and the international legal community.  (Nov 17, 2022)      Questions? Inquiries about program materials? Contact Alan I. Johnson at ajohnson@bostonbar.org  

A football game is a service and the clubs that are organizing football matches are providing recreational services. International trade rules may apply when the players on the pitch come from different countries, when a club is foreign-owned, when matches are broadcast internationally or when fans travel abroad to watch their favourite teams play. In this episode of the "Trade Goals" podcast,  Markus Jelitto and Antonia Carzaniga explore how the WTO's Services Agreement (the GATS) applies to the beautiful game.We talked to:Philippe Senderos, Sporting Director of Servette FC, GenevaRaffaele Poli, Head of the Football Observatory at the International Centre for Sports Studies(CIES) in Neuchâtel, SwitzerlandCarol Etter, a Swiss Attorney-At-Law specialised in sports law. Carol is also a board member of FC BaselJosé Francisco Manssur, a Brazilian lawyer specialized in sports lawFernando Roitman, Founder of CIES Sports Intelligence at the International Centre of Sport Studies (CIES) in Neuchâtel Learn more about the WTO's Services Agreement (GATS):The General Agreement on Trade in Services explainedWTO video about the GATS:"Let's Talk Services Trade"Statistical analysis of the football players' labour market, the technical analysis of player performance and the scientific estimation of transfer values:The Football ObservatoryFacts and figures about global football:FIFA Professional Football Report 2019Deloitte Football Money League profiles the relative financial performance of the highest revenue generating clubs in world football:Deloitte Football Money League 2022 | Deloitte UK" More about foreign investment in Brazilian football clubs:Football corporations in Brazil (SAF): new perspectives for foreign investment in Brazilian football teams | International Bar Association (ibanet.org)

Hello, and welcome to this week in financial crime. I'm your host, Chris Kirkbride. As ever with financial crime, there is always decent range of stories to ensure that things never get boring. A little bit on sanctions, but I still cover it first. Secondly, some interesting cyber initiatives announced, together with some announcements relating to combatting financial crime from a professional body and the DoJ in the US. And, we end this week with some bits and pieces on money laundering. These are the links to the principal documents mentioned in the podcast:Council of the EU, Russian aggression against Ukraine: EU individual sanctions over territorial integrity prolonged for a further six monthsDraft The Sanctions (Damages Cap) Regulations 2022EU Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1501 of 9 September 2022 implementing Regulation (EU) No 208/2014 concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons, entities and bodies in view of the situation in UkraineFinancial Action Task Force and INTERPOL Joint Asset Recovery InitiativeInternational Federation of Accountants (‘IFAC') and International Bar Association, Action Plan to Tackle Economic Crime and CorruptionJoint Committee of the European supervisory authorities (European Banking Authority, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and the European Securities and Markets Authority) this week issued their Autumn Joint Risk ReportOFSI Russia Financial Sanctions NoticeOFSI DPRK Financial Sanctions NoticeUS DoJ speech by Lisa Monaco at NYU

In epiosde 8 of Series 7 of The Rights Track, Todd is in conversation with Wendy Betts, Director of eyeWitness, an International Bar Association project launched in 2015 which collects verifiable video of human rights violations for use in investigations and trials. We're asking Wendy how the use of digital technology can help to hold accountable those who commit human rights crimes.   Transcript Todd Landman  0:01  Welcome to The Rights Track podcast, which gets the hard facts about the human rights challenges facing us today. In series seven, we're discussing human rights in a digital world. I'm Todd Landman, in this episode, I'm delighted to be joined by Wendy Betts. Wendy is director of eyeWitness an International Bar Association project launched in 2015, which collects verifiable video of human rights violations for use in investigations and trials. So today we're asking Wendy, how does the use of digital technology help to hold accountable those who commit human rights crimes? So Wendy, it's absolutely brilliant to have you on this episode of the right track. So welcome. Wendy Betts  0:38  Thanks, Todd. It's great to be here. Todd Landman  0:40  You and I met in Bergen in Norway, we were at the Rafto Foundation awards for the Human Rights Data Analysis Group and Human Rights Data Analysis Group have featured in previous episodes on The Rights Track. And I see there is a kind of correlation, if you will, between the work of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group and the work that you do at eyeWitness. It is just that the data you're collecting is really video files and video footage. So tell us a little bit about the work that you're doing with eyeWitness. Wendy Betts  1:08  Absolutely. So at eyeWitness, we are helping human rights defenders in conflict zones and other places that are experiencing large scale human rights violations, to collect photo and video information in a way that makes it easier to authenticate. So that footage can be used in investigations and trials. So we work with human rights defenders in three ways. First, we're providing a mobile camera app that we designed to help ensure that the footage can be easily authenticated. And then we are helping to securely store that footage and maintain the chain of custody so it can eventually be used in investigations and trials. And third, we work to then take a working copy of that footage that we catalogue and tag to make it easier for investigators to identify footage that's potentially of interest to their investigations and incorporate that into those processes. Todd Landman  2:01  Well, that's a great summary of the work that you do. I recall when I was a student at Georgetown University, I worked in the Lauinger Library. And my job was to produce photographs in the pre-digital age. So this was processing rolls of film in the old cans used to kind of shake them with the chemicals and then use an enlarger and make photographs. And that was fine for special collections and photographing books. But one day, a Jesuit priest came into the library and handed me a roll of film and said I need 10 copies of each of these pictures. And they were actually photographs from the crime scene where Jesuit priests had been murdered in El Salvador. And I'm curious that when we enlarge those pictures and submitted them back to the authorities that requested them, is that kind of evidence still considered verifiable evidence? And what is it that the digital elements all of this adds to the veracity and the verifiability of evidence collected on human rights crimes? Wendy Betts  2:58  There's a long history of photo and video being used as evidence, that photo and video in its hard copy form would need to be verified to go to court. So generally speaking, the court would want to speak with the photographer, or in the absence of photographer, somebody that could help explain that that footage is indeed an accurate portrayal of that location at that time. And what digital technology has done is expand the ability of who can be the photographer to collect that potential evidence. So with the two trends of smartphones in everyone's pocket, plus the rise of social media platforms where people can share this information, you're suddenly seeing this massive proliferation of the amount of available information that could be used as evidence. But indeed, this also will need to be verified in much the same way. But the challenges to doing that are slightly different. And then the technology that we can bring to bear to do that is slightly different. Todd Landman  3:52  Yes, I understand those differences. And so there's a lot of debate today, if we take the War in Ukraine as a good example, when it first started, there was a flurry of activity on Twitter that said, don't believe everything you see on Twitter. So there of course will be manipulated images manipulated video, I see manipulated video every day, some of it you can tell straight away, it just looks awful. It looks like a video game. Somebody's saying, look, you know, Ukrainians are taking out Russian tanks. And actually you look at the tank tracks and you can see it just looks like a photoshopped superimposed image of a tank running over some really bad terrain, to the fully verifiable accounts that we are seeing coming out of that conflict. So how are things verified? How does one dismiss imagery in one instance and accept imagery in another? What's the expertise required to give that verifiable account? Wendy Betts  4:43  I think when you're looking at verification, what you really want to know is whether that footage was taken where and when it was claimed. And if that footage has been edited, or as you note in your examples has it been photoshopped to look like something else? And then is it possible that even if it was authentic to begin with, and I accurate to begin with hasn't been changed somewhere along the way? So has it been taken down off social media and changed and reposted? And there's been two trends that have developed to address how we can do this. So one is the plethora of open source investigation techniques that have developed in terms of how can you geo locate images using satellite footage and other types of technology? How can you Chrono locate, so how can you figure out when and where that footage was taken? Can you do frame by frame analyses to determine if that footage has been edited in any way? So that was one approach. And that has become increasingly professionalised. And is really coming to the fore in Ukraine. And then the other approach is the one that eyeWitness has taken where we developed a tool that can be used to hardwire that information in the point that that footage was taken. So those are called controlled capture tools, because you're basically controlling the information and controlling that footage, keeping it in a controlled environment for its entire lifespan. So you're collecting information about where and when that footage was taken, you're ensuring that footage can be edited. And you are maintaining that footage in that secure state through its lifespan. Todd Landman  6:04  So the app itself has the technology built inside it, you've actually hardwired that programmable element to the app, and it can't be tampered with. So if I download this app as a user, and I'm travelling through the world, and I want to document something, it's easy to use on a mobile device, easy to proliferate and sort of disseminate if you will out to users. And it's easy to learn by those users. Because the technology itself has been created in a way that preserves the identity and the verifiability of the images that are captured. Wendy Betts  6:39  That's exactly it. The eyeWitness app is designed to be really easy to use to pick up and take and start using and on the surface for the user interface. It's much like standard mobile camera, so you have to open the app instead of your camera. But you're recording footage in the same way, you can enter the secure gallery where the footage is stored to see what you've taken. And you upload it to eyeWitness, this is how we maintain the chain of custody and secure that footage until it can be used. And then you have the option to share it with your social media networks, you can attach it to a WhatsApp message, you can do a variety of things with it. All of the verification aspect is intended to happen behind the scenes kind of inside the technology. So the app is designed indeed to collect information about where and when that footage was taken from three different sources, none of which are the user themselves. It's also collecting information to ensure that that footage can't be edited. So we are calculating basically a digital fingerprint at the moment that information is captured, that stays with that footage. So if any changes wherever to be made to it, you'd be able to spot that by running the algorithm for the fingerprint again, and then that footage is stored encrypted on the device, and then it's transmitted encrypted to eyeWitness so it can't be intercepted or manipulated either at rest on the phone or in transit on its way to us. Todd Landman  8:00  So you have a secure server where all these raw files are held. Is that right? Wendy Betts  8:05  Indeed. So we've been fortunate to partner on a pro bono relationship with LexisNexis legal and professional and so they host our server in their secure hosting environment that they have for litigation services for a variety of confidential evidence that's used in cases around the world. So they host our server, which allows us to scale up quickly and scale up to meet the need. And Ukraine is a perfect example. We've received more footage from Ukraine since the invasion began, then we have globally in the last two years. So that ability to scale up quickly is very important, and more importantly, it is stored securely. So they have their state of the art security around that in a way that we couldn't necessarily put around a server if we were hosting it ourselves. Todd Landman  8:51  That's amazing. Can you tell us a little bit about the complexity of a Ukraine investigation? Let's take the case of Bucha. We know in Bucha, that there were atrocities committed of some kind, clearly there has to be an evidentiary threshold reached, there has to be a profile of perpetrators and victims, there has to be that whole disaggregation of very complex human rights events of the kinds that you and I discussed with the team from Human Rights Data Analysis Group, but what are the steps that eyeWitness takes? What's the role that you take in the preparation of, let's say, an investigation into something like the Bucha incidents that we saw? Wendy Betts  9:30  So I think if we back up to your comment earlier about just the sheer amount of footage that we've been seeing on social media, and including from places like Bucha, that I think there's a sense that there is plenty of evidence out there, and we've got everything we need. And I think what everyone needs to take step back and realise is how complex as you said these cases are. So you need information about what actually happened on the ground, what happened to these victims, and that takes the form of witness statements, it can take the form of physical evidence, it can take the form of photo and video, but we also need to know the context in which it's happening. If you want to elevate something to be a war crime, instead of a murder, you need to understand the conflict dynamic and what's happening. And then if you want to hold people at higher levels of authority responsible, and not just the people on the ground who pulled the trigger, you need to make those linkages. And that, again, is documentary evidence, it's witness evidence. So all of these pieces of this massive evidentiary puzzle have to come together. At eyeWitness, we see ourselves as one of these pieces, we are a photo video piece of evidence that can tell part of the story but has to work together with these other aspects. So we don't do full investigations ourselves and put all these pieces together, what we do is equip either civil society investigators, ordinary citizens, journalists, or others on the ground who have access to these scenes and are collecting photo and video with a tool to do it in a way that they can feed that information into investigations because it can be so easily verified, so they can contribute to this puzzle, in order to help hold the perpetrators responsible. Todd Landman  11:03  I think this whole portrayal of the contribution that you're making is really important. In our interview with the director of Human Rights State Analysis Group, Patrick Ball, the sort of data guru as it were in these areas, he said, you know, statistics are not a silver bullet. So the work that they do, would provide the statistical analysis that showed that certain things were happening that could not be explained by chance alone. But it was only ever one part of a very complex story alongside documentary evidence, alongside testimonies alongside forensic anthropology alongside many other things. And then ultimately, a determination of, let's say, genocide was a legal judgement that was either supported or not supported by the type of statistical evidence that was provided alongside other pieces of evidence. Now you're making a very similar case that whatever body is going to be prosecuting crimes, in whether it is Bucha, or the broader conflict in Ukraine, eyeWitness is only ever going to be one part of that much bigger story. Is that right? Wendy Betts  12:02  Exactly, exactly. I think all of these different strains of investigation have to work together, people collecting witness statements, the people doing open source investigation of footage and other information that was posted early on, people who have access to official documents, all of these pieces have to fit together, because as you said, in addition to showing just the baseline conduct happening on the ground, you need to show these patterns in magnitudes. And you can only do that by amassing large amounts of information that can show some of those patterns and run those types of statistical analysis that Patrick was talking about. So it all does fit together and complements each other. Todd Landman  12:42  Yeah. And you know, the conflict in Ukraine is by no means over. And you know, I read up a report, I think it was yesterday that said, there are up to 30,000 war crimes that need to be investigated. Now, each crime itself requires extensive documentation, and then you multiply that by the number of crimes. And of course, there may be future crimes committed that will need to be documented as well. So the scale of just this conflict in Ukraine, you said, you've received more images from Ukraine, and then you have in the last two years of other areas of the world, and we may get to talking about those other areas of the world. But to me, the scale of what's happening in Ukraine, and the time that's required to fully prosecute many of these crimes means that we're really going to be in this for the long haul. Wendy Betts  13:25  Justice, unfortunately, in these types of cases is definitely a long term process, and the arc of justice is quite long. And that's what we hope is part of the value added of eyeWitness and why we provide that secure storage aspect, because the photos and videos taken now may well not be involved in an investigation or a trial for years and years to come. And so we can safeguard that footage in a way that even at that time, we can hand it over and it could stand up to the scrutiny. But indeed, I think we're looking at a long term prospect for justice. Todd Landman  13:58  Yes. And outside the Ukraine context, what are some other examples of where eyeWitness has been collecting this video footage from other parts of the world? Wendy Betts  14:06  So eyeWitness launched publicly in 2015. And we really do work globally. And we respond to the inquiries and the needs of human rights defenders in various parts of the world. Now, some places we don't advertise especially where the security situation is quite serious for some of the human rights defenders using the eyeWitness app. But in other places, we have been able to be a bit more public. So we have been working actually in Ukraine since 2017. And we put out a report about shelling of civilian dwellings to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing. So that's one area where we've been active even before the current events. We've also recently submitted a report to the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings related to violence occurring in the middle belt area of Nigeria between farmers and herders. We've also been active in the Palestine context with partners there using the eyeWitness app. So we've been quite broadly represented around the globe. And we review accountability broadly as well. And so that's why I'm mentioning non-judicial approaches to accountability. Any efforts that can get at this conduct and get it and investigate it and helped to hold the perpetrators responsible is what we're interested in empowering human rights defenders to do. Todd Landman  15:25  Okay. And do you provide training alongside because it's one thing just to download an app and start using it, but you might make sort of fundamental errors in using the technology from the start? So do you provide a training manual or workshops or online training for users as they download the app and then say, well, actually, this is the best way to film things? Or do you just sort of allow the technology to run in the hands of the users? Wendy Betts  15:49  Our preferred approach is to work in long term partnerships with human rights defenders that want to use the app, we very much see the app as a tool and to be used effectively, you do need to put more skill building and strengthening around that tool. So we do work hand in hand with human rights defenders, who plan to use the app on not only how to use the app, but how to incorporate photo and video into demonstrating whatever types of violations that are looking into, we can provide training on how you actually film when you're at the crime scene. We work with a lot of human rights defenders whose primary efforts have been advocacy oriented, and those are very different photos than photos you want to take for evidence. And so we work to help them make that shift as well. And so then we give them ongoing feedback. Once their footage starts coming in, we can provide tech support, if they're out in the field, and we know they're going on a documentation mission, we can be ready to answer any questions if they have any. So we really want to work with them hand in hand to not just use eyeWitness but use it effectively. Todd Landman  16:54  I understand and does the technology work in the absence of a mobile signal in the absence of a WiFi connection? Can you collect videos on a phone, outside of network, and then when it gets back into the network, you're able to upload the images and videos that have been taken to a secure server? Wendy Betts  17:11  Our goal in designing eyeWitness is to make sure that it can work in the types of environments where these human rights defenders are active. And especially when you look at conflict zones where electricity may be disrupted, internet may be disrupted, cell service may be disrupted. So the app is designed to be able to collect, not only take the photos and videos, but all of the metadata that's needed to help verify where and when it was taken while offline. So you don't need to have access to the internet. Nor do you need to have a cell subscription or any other kind of data service that will collect all of that. It's designed to store that information securely in a gallery separate from the gallery on your phone. So it's hidden in a secure gallery. The idea being that these human rights defenders may have to make their way back to their headquarters or make their way back to someplace with internet before they're able to upload it to us and then delete it off their phones. So we wanted it to remain hidden in transit during that timeframe. So it is definitely aimed at helping individuals in contexts where there's high security risks, infrastructure challenges to be able to use the app. Todd Landman  18:17  You've definitely given that a lot of thought, I guess another question that flows from that is what's the minimum viable technical requirement on a phone? Obviously, it needs to be a smartphone with a camera and a video. But how far back in time can you go in terms of the age of a device because of the availability of resources, etc in some of these conflict zones? What sort of phone is the basic unit you require to use the app? Wendy Betts  18:39  That is a really good question, because it's such an important issue in terms of access and availability of these tools to the vulnerable segments of society that need them most. First thing I should say it's designed for Android, and we don't currently have an iOS version. Part of that is because the demographics of the places where we're working is primarily Android users. So it's designed for that operating system. And we've designed it to go back to android 6.0, which I think is roughly operating systems on phones back to 2015. So it does stretch back a fair way, we made a decision not to go back any further. And that's because Android changed how it handles security at the 6.0 version onward. And we could harden the security of the information both to protect the user and the integrity of the information from that version onward in a way that was more difficult in previous versions. So that's when it goes back to Todd Landman  19:32  And are there any plans to make this available in iOS? Or are there sort of limitations in terms of partnering with Apple to make that happen? Wendy Betts  19:40  We regularly revisit the question and we're actually currently in the process of again, looking at if we could replicate all the functionality that we currently offer security, the anonymity those types of questions, in an iOS version and then looking at the cost compared to the potential user base are the calculations we make. So we're looking at that right now again actually. Todd Landman  20:00  But for the user, this is free. It's an app that you download for free and then use. Is that right? Wendy Betts  20:05  Exactly. It's free. That's freely available. As I said, we would like to work in partnerships. But that's not necessary. Any individual can go to the Google Play Store now and download it and start using it. We do have written instruction guides on our website, we have a short video on how to use it and some other resources that are available. Todd Landman  20:25  Great. And then I guess my final set of questions really is about how this evidence connects to what we've say different photographic evidence you made passing reference to the use of satellite imagery, which has been a very powerful tool, I think the company planet takes a picture of the entire surface of the Earth every 24 hours with its sort of flocks of satellites, then they have the system, if one satellite goes down, they can easily replace another one within the flock. And they have tremendous number of images that are very high resolution, and I should say an increasing resolution. But that's one version of what you can see from space, as it were. And what you're saying is in the hands of users and defenders, you have almost a citizen science ground truthing that can take place as well. Are there any efforts to coordinate between your organisation and some of these providers of satellite imagery, if asked to do so? You mentioned the forced deportations or the destruction of houses. The Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, for example. So you could see satellites, just, you know, images before and after a village is destroyed. But equally, you could triangulate that with your users on the ground, saying, Here's a house being destroyed, I'm hiding in a bush filming this right now is that sort of partnership and, you know, sort of holistic approach being developed in your organisation? Wendy Betts  21:38  So we have certainly used satellite footage in some of our analyses in that Ukraine one about shelling is a key example. That case we didn't establish a partnership, we used what was publicly available that we can access to help go back and look at the dates and locations of the photos we have and then go back and look at satellite footage. And we use that primarily to determine when the attack actually took place. So we have photos dated as to when they were taken. But that doesn't necessarily give you the date of when the attack was. So we use satellite footage a lot to help determine Okay, well, this building looked intact on this date, and certainly looks more like the photo that we have on this date. And then that way, we were able to determine at what point the attack probably took place. We've also worked with another organisation that was doing an investigation of environmental damage in a different location. And in that case, they were able to get the latitude and longitude of the event that they were looking at using the app. And then they were able to get historic and current satellite footage for that location to be able to trace the trends of what was happening there. So they were looking at some environmental damage. So you can help see the change in the environment based on what you're seeing in the satellite photos. That being said, there's certainly the ability to work with satellite providers to help target so I think if you're setting out to do an investigation, and you know, you're going to be in certain places at a certain time and you need some of those satellites pointed at those locations. I think those type of partnerships are indeed possible. We haven't engaged with any of those at the moment because again, we tend to be led by our human right defender users and what they want to investigate. But I think there are organisations that are engaging in those types of partnerships. Todd Landman  23:19  That's great. That's very clear in your explanation. And then I suppose a follow up question would be you've been an operation now since 2015, you've had seven years of footage coming in and the secure servers and you've supplied images to cases, can you tell us the story of success, you know, it has been successful prosecutions in your mind from a legal perspective where you think that eyeWitness has made a definitive contribution to the outcome of those cases? Wendy Betts  23:44  Absolutely. So as I mentioned, we've launched the app in 2015. And we're looking at atrocity crime. So going back to your earlier point about the long arc of justice in these crimes, we have to kind of bear that in mind at what point they might actually go to trial. So we've provided a significant amount of information to investigations at different stages of the process. And so not all of those have gone to trial yet. But indeed, we did collaborate on a case that has gone to trial and resulted in a conviction. And this was a project that we did in partnership with WITNESS, which is a group based in Brooklyn, and with TRIAL International, which is an organisation based in Switzerland, who does strategic litigation. And we then all three of us partnered with a human rights defender group on the ground in the Democratic Republic of Congo. And in that case, they were investigating a massacre that took place in 2012 in two different villages in eastern DRC. And local human rights defenders were able to use the app based on training that they received from WITNESS on filming a crime scene, and to help put it into a case that TRIAL International was helping to build and they were able to use the app to go back and collect photos that helped to actually authenticate footage that was taken contemporaneously with the massacre. But that hadn't been stored in a way to protect the chain of custody. So they were able to go back and take footage of some of the same scarring injuries on the victims to demonstrate that the ones taken at the time, were accurate, and able to take photos of the mass grave, which could be used to help determine the number of bodies based on its dimensions and how that matched up with the reports of the number of people who had been killed, and with the photos that have been taken at the time of the burials. So all of this footage was entered into evidence by the prosecutor in the case, and was accepted by the court and was noted in the judgement about the power of the footage. And indeed, the two militia leaders were convicted of crimes against humanity. Todd Landman  25:51  Right. So that's a real success story, I had the pleasure of visiting WITNESS in Brooklyn back in 2011. And I recall that it's funny when you enter their offices, they sort of have a timeline of tech sitting in their front room, you know, cameras from ages ago, up to the latest stuff, and they're very, very good at training people how to represent human rights in a slightly different way that you do it. But working together, obviously has produced a great benefit. Now, it's that timeline of tech that interests me. And my final question is that, you know, technology continues to advance at an exponential rate. And what do you see for the future in this space? What would you like to do that you can't do yet, but you think will be possible in a few years time with respect to the technology that you've been working with and developing? Wendy Betts  26:32  That's a great question. There's so many exciting things that can happen with technology. I mean, there's already it's not even in the future, it's looking at virtual reality and using that for juries to kind of put them in the place of the crime scene. And that's all based on taking a number of photos and videos that can then be put through the algorithm to be transformed into virtual reality. There's the idea of being able to take 3D photo and video that you might be able to broadcast into the courtroom. I think the interesting component of that, though, is can the courts keep up? I think the courts now are trying to determine how to best handle digital evidence that's coming out of this flood of footage over the last 10 years. So I'm not sure we're ready to start talking about how we handle 3D images that are captured on a mobile phone. Todd Landman  27:20  Yeah, absolutely. And, you know, like DNA suddenly emerged as a new thing that, you know, transformed the legal profession in terms of solid evidence about whether somebody was actually present at a crime scene, and you could re litigate cases for many years ago, you've put your finger on that challenge between the advance of technology and the ability for legal entities to keep up and courts to keep up there have to be determinations around what is an acceptable piece of evidence. And that's a very interesting challenge for the future. But you've given us so much to think about here. And I think there is this fear of technology as a fear of manipulation of images. There's also the fear of cracking an encrypted storage of these images. But you have given us assurances and confidence in the technology that you developed the way that you've partnered with organisations to help you store this information. And then, of course, this chain of custody, the chain of evidence which is unbroken, and the ways in which these images really do contribute to, as you call it, the long arc of justice. So it's a very interesting conclusion to reach, at least at this stage, in listening to you and talking about how this form of technology which is in the palm of our hands, gives us the power in the palm of our hands to defend human rights in such interesting ways. And in my view, shows us that the digital transformation and technological advance we're seeing in the world can make a positive contribution to positive social change. So Wendy Betts has just leaves me to thank you very, very much for sharing your thoughts with us today on The Rights Track. Wendy Betts  28:45  Thanks so much for having me. It was a great conversation. Christine Garrington  28:49  Thanks for listening to this episode of The Rights Track podcast, which was presented by Todd Landman and produced by Chris Garrington of Research Podcasts with funding from 3di. You can find a full transcript of this episode on the website at www.RightsTrack.org together with useful links to content mentioned in the discussion. Don't forget to subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts to access future and earlier episodes.   Additional Links: eyeWitness app  

Rebecca Lowe is a freelance journalist from London who specialises in human rights and the Middle East.    In 2015-16, she cycled 11,000km solo from London to Tehran.    Her first book, THE SLOW ROAD TO TEHRAN, documenting her year-long journey, paints a living portrait of the Middle East through its people, politics and historic relationship with the West, and challenges much of the perceived wisdom about this region of the world. It was published in March 2022 by September Books in the UK and MVG in Germany.   During her career, Rebecca has written for the Guardian, BBC, Independent, Huffington Post, Economist, Sunday Times Magazine, Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Spectator and IranWire, as well as numerous travel, music and sports magazines.    From 2010-15, she was the lead reporter at the International Bar Association, where she focused on human rights and the rule of law, and in 2018 she contributed to the adventure travel anthology THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS: TRAVEL STORIES THAT MAKE YOUR HEART GROW, published by Summersdale.    Rebecca is a Fellow at the Royal Geographical Society and holds a BA in English Literature from Cambridge University and an MA in Journalism from Stanford University, where she was awarded a scholarship.   New episodes of the Tough Girl Podcast go live every Tuesday and Thursday at 7am UK time - Make sure you hit the subscribe button so you don't miss out.    To find out more about supporting the Tough Girl Podcast and becoming a patron please visit www.patreon.com/toughgirlpodcast.    Show Notes Who is Rebecca Being a journalist for over a decade Becoming interested in the Middle East  Deciding to quit her job and cycle from London to Iran Becoming a new mum while finishing off her new book The challenges of motherhood and juggling work Being adventurous and having an independent spirit Being into sports and playing with the boys Where her interest in the middle east came from  Always wanting to become a writer  Explaining what the Arab Spring is (2010- 2011) Her journey with cycling  Trying to find a bike via sponsorship Learning to cycle with Panniers Packing everything!! Not feeling prepared before the trip Learning how to deal with new situations Getting into her cycling rhythm Going from West to East Feeling overwhelmed by undertaking big challenges Concerns and fears before starting the journey  The challenges of being a journalist while travelling Taking precautions before the trip  The benefits of being a woman in the Middle East What it was like day to day Having a budget of £15 per day  Trying to avoid the heat The wonderful food! Learning different cultures  Getting to the end of the trip and being ready to finish Dealing with punctures Arriving into Tehran and getting to the finish line Missing the Uk  The lessons learning from time spend on the road Feeling more confident and being able to cope with new situations Connect with Rebecca Final words of advice  Start slowly and push those boundaries Why you can go on Big Adventures Mantra and powerful quotes   Social Media   Website: thebicyclediaries.co.uk     Instagram: @reo_lowe    Twitter: @reo_lowe   

Episode 35: The guest featured in this Episode is a human rights and international law expert and United Nations Peace Ambassador. He is the Principal Partner of Adeola Oyinlade & Co; a fully serviced law firm based in Lagos and founder of Constitutional Rights Awareness and Liberty Initiative (CRALI); an organization with renowned commitment dated back to year 2012, harnessing and bringing the benefits of human rights simplification, probono legal services to the people in Nigeria.Mr. Oyinlade uses his legal expertise and technological skills as tools of social engineering and problem-solving in Nigeria and the continent of Africa.Mr. Adeola has received awards as the 2018 Human Rights Law Expert of the Year Laureat by the International Bar Association and in 2021 by the American Bar association.Mr. Oyinlade in this episode shares,About his early life and educationWhat led you him the field of Law and Why Human Rights LawThe discouragements he encountered while pursing a human rights career?What motivated him to start his own law firm.What contributed to him International recognitionsHis daily motivation and the satisfaction he derives from being a human rights lawyer Advise for someone who considering studying lawWhat a lawyer who hopes to open their law firm should consider before opening.Adeola Oyinlade's InfoWebsite: http://adeolaoyinlade.comWebsite: https://knowyourrightsnigeria.comLinkedIn- Adeola OyinladeBeyond Africa Magazine InfoFacebook, Instagram, Linkedin: @beyondafricamagazineTwitter: @beyondafricamagWebsite: www.beyondafricamagazine.comhttps://bampodcast.buzzsprout.com/Subscribe  and ReviewPlease subscribe to BAM Podcast on iTunes to get notifications of new episodes as soon as they are published. Leaving a review increases BAM's visibility and helps to improve episodes as needed.

Tilly Glascodine and Chi Tran speak with Phuong about about Incendium Radical Library and their upcoming poetry reading event at the NGV this Friday, 18th March from 11am-1pm. To find out more about the library and the event, visit incendiumradicallibrary.com Daye Gang is a barrister and PhD student. Kannagi spoke with her about her research, which  focuses on restorative justice programs and the experience of anti-rape advocates active during the Women's Liberation Movement in Victoria in the 1970s and 1980s. Daye also has an international practice in North Korean human rights and law and was the first Korean and first Australian to ever win the prestigious International Bar Association's Outstanding Young Lawyer for 2020.Dr Clare Wright is the Professor of History at La Trobe University and co-convenor of A Monument of One's Own.  Last week, the Victorian government announced the artists and projects that will share in its $1 million Victorian Women's Public Art Program. Of 590 statues across Melbourne, only nine currently depict real women, with the program designed to address the underrepresentation of women in public art. A Monument of One's Own, a campaign in conjunction with the Victorian Trades Hall Council, received funding from Women's Public Art Program to honour Zelda D'Aprano, the legendary equal pay campaigner, and Dr Wright spoke to Evie both about the campaign as well as Zelda D'Aprano. Dr Helen Caldicott is an Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate. She founded several associations dedicated to opposing the use of nuclear power, depleted uranium munitions, nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons proliferation, and military action in general. On the 26th of February, Annie from Solidarity Breakfast interviewed Dr Helen Caldicott on her views on Ukraine, and we played a segment of this interview.SONGSMazzy Star - Blue LightPANIA - Proof

With decades of experience behind them, many inspiring and incredible practitioners have made a name for themselves as international lawyers. While the feat may seem quite daunting for aspiring lawyers, our next guest shares why it is entirely possible to get started on this path to international law immediately. In this episode of The Protégé Podcast, host Naomi Neilson is joined by post-graduate law student Sadaf Azimi – who has already gained years of experience in the international law space – to chat about why it is possible for all new lawyers.  The episode is full of tips on where aspiring international lawyers can get started, what skills they should be looking into and how to craft the perfect application. From her own experience, Sadaf talks about why language was a key component of her own submissions and the Australia-based organisations that could lend a hand.  For listeners concerned about how they could fit into this space, Sadaf said it is important to “rise to the occasion” in any job: “I would really encourage anybody who is thinking of applying to not be discouraged from job descriptions. It is likely that everyone will rise to the occasion and be more than equipped to do it.”  Sadaf also shares with listeners what her own international law experiences were like, including at the United Nations and the International Bar Association.  Have a listen below!  If you have any questions about the episode or if there are any topics that you might want us to look into, please reach out – we would love to hear from you!  We're also always open to new guests, so if you have an exciting story to tell, if you're standing out as a student or graduate, or if you can offer some tips for our young lawyers, get in touch.  You can reach us here: Emails: editor@lawyersweekly.com.au or naomi.neilson@momentummedia.com.au Socials: Follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter or reach out to me directly here.

Jessica Gonzalez is an associate at cannabis law powerhouse Hiller PC and a well-known advocate in New Jersey's cannabis scene. She also serves as the outside General Counsel for Minorities for Medical Cannabis, Social Equity Co-Chair for the International Bar Association, and on the board of New Jersey NORML. With two days left before applications are accepted in NJ, we get an in-depth and on-the-ground update on their regulatory program.

This event is sponsored by the Asia Initiative Lecture Series at The Institute of World Politics. About the lecture: The problems arising from the presence of North Korean refugees in China warrant a human security approach, meriting protection from the UN and the international community. There are three scenarios dreaded by the refugees: first is being caught by North Korean border patrol while trying to escape; second is being subjected to human trafficking ring; and third is being repatriated after being caught by either the Chinese police or North Korea's own secret police operating in China. Despite the 1995 agreement between the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) and China, which provides the UNHCR unimpeded access to all refugees within China, the UNHCR has been passive in exerting its mandate to protect the North Korean refugees. One possible solution is the construction of a refugee camp in China or Mongolia. If China allowed for this, it would catapult itself as a genuine “soft power” deserving of the much-coveted G2 status. Otherwise, China's leadership ambition, UNHCR's reputation, and most importantly, human rights of the refugees will remain in jeopardy so long as the discriminatory sŏngbun system in North Korea continues. About the speaker: Ambassador Jung-Hoon Lee is Dean and Professor of International Relations at the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University. He is formerly the ROK government's Ambassador for Human Rights as well as its inaugural Ambassador-at-Large for North Korean Human Rights. On campus, he served as Dean of the Underwood International College and the Office of International Affairs. He has also served as Director of the Institute of Modern Korean Studies, the Yonsei Human Liberty Center, the Center for American Studies (IEWS), and the Center for European Studies (IEWS). His other academic affiliations include a visiting professorship at the Dept. of Politics, Faculty of Law, Keio University, and a senior fellowship at Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Ambassador Lee has advised South Korea's National Unification Advisory Council, Ministry of Unification, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, National Security Council, and the National Assembly. In the case of the Ministry of Unification, he chaired the Advisory Committee for Humanitarian Affairs. His current domestic commitments include his role as Chairman of SaveNK, an NGO that helps the defector community, Senior Advisor to the Future Korea Weekly, a current affairs magazine, and Chairman of the Board of Tongwon Educational Foundation. Internationally, he is a Board Member of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) based in Washington, D.C., an International Patron of the Hong Kong Watch, a UK-based organization that promotes Hong Kong's democracy, and an Advisory Council Member of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute, also based in London. He received his BA from Tufts University, MALD from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, and D.Phil. from the University of Oxford (St. Antony's College). In 2017, he published Tongbukah Kyŏkrang ui Hanbokp'anesŏ [In the Midst of a Northeast Asian Current]. His most recent journal contributions include “Déjà Vu in South Korea? Lessons from the 1992 Philippines Withdrawal” in The Washington Quarterly (2020), “The UN's Human Security Challenge: The Plight of North Korean Refugees in China” in the Journal of International Politics (2020), and “North Korea's Nuclear and Human Rights Conundrum: Implications for South Korea's Unification Goal” in Pacific Focus (2020).

We welcome Peter Y. Solmssen who serves as the Chairman of the Non-trial Resolutions Subcommittee of the International Bar Association. The interview covers his unique role in serving as the general counsel after the allegations of foreign bribery against Siemens surfaced. Peter shares his views on the Siemens case in general and weighs in on why a successful and large company like Siemens developed systematic bribery schemes in the first place. Matthew and Peter discuss the benefits and challenges of administering penalties of foreign bribery not only to companies but also to individuals. Peter describes his wishlist of changes to the FCPA and how bribery schemes increasingly span across national borders need to be combatted. For more info on the Siemens scandal: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/business/worldbusiness/21siemens.html To find out more about Peter and his involvement in negotiating “the first internationally coordinated settlement of multiple foreign bribery prosecutions”, check out his Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Y._Solmssen. For a fascinating read about his family's roots in Germany check out this Die Zeit article (in German): https://www.zeit.de/2010/37/Siemens-Vorstand-Solmssen/komplettansicht In March 2017, Peter co-authored the Report “On Combating Corruption and Fostering Integrity “ to the Secretary General of the OECD: https://www.oecd.org/corruption/HLAG-Corruption-Integrity-SG-Report-March-2017.pdf Together with Prof. Tina Soreide (https://www.nhh.no/en/employees/faculty/tina-soreide/), Peter has founded and coordinated “The Recommendation 6 Network” a working group consisting academics, lawyers, corporate officers and NGOs: https://www.nhh.no/en/research-centres/corporate-compliance-and-enforcement/about/guidelines-for-non-trial-resolutions/

In this episode, Justine Tee and Ariane Ang interview Phillip Greenham, who has been working in construction law for over 35 years. He was previously a partner at MinterEllison for 27 years, where he headed the construction practice for 13 years. Phillip has made significant contributions to government projects throughout his career. He is a founding member of the Society of Construction Law Australia and is currently a member of the International Construction Projects Committee of the International Bar Association. Today, Phillip works as an independent arbitrator and continues to provide legal advice to a small number of clients. He is also developing an IT product that will help streamline the administration of construction contracts. Lastly, Phillip is an enterprise fellow at the University of Melbourne, where he lectures and manages research in relation to issues that connect the law with the construction industry. Please checkout the written interview as well as our other guides via the link below: https://www.encyclawpedia.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/encyclawpedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/encyclawpedia/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/encyclawpedia/ Email: encyclawpedia.monash@gmail.com

In this episode we discuss: Tahmina's path to becoming an immigration lawyer and her experience as an organizer during the Trump administration Her experience as a Muslim American during the Trump years and in light of the Muslim Ban Tahmina's two books Legal Heroes of the Trump Era and The Startup Visa available on Amazon.com The ways in which Tahmina believes a "startup visa" could benefit the United States, the tech industry and individual immigrant innovators all at the same time Jessica and Tahmina comparing notes about representation of business immigrants vs. deportation defense and family based cases Jessica and Tahmina's beliefs about what would be best for immigration in the next era of reform and new ideas for how immigration can evolve in the United States.   JESSICA SMITH BOBADILLA BIO  Jessica's website: https://www.attorneyjessica.com/.  Jessica can be reached at (559) 264-2500 through her firm or for the podcast at iamattorneyjessicapodcast@gmail.com.   Follow Jessica on Social Media: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter   TAHMINA WATSON BIO Tahmina Watson obtained her law degree and graduated from Brunel University, London, England in 2000. She was Called to the Bar in 2002 (became a barrister) as a member of the Middle Temple Inn. After completing her pupillage (apprenticeship) from Bridewell Chambers in London in 2004, Tahmina continued as a practicing barrister, handling mainly criminal defense matters, before relocating to the United States in 2005. She was affiliated with Temple Court Chambers in London as a Door Tenant until recently. Tahmina was admitted to the New York Bar in 2006. Prior to founding Watson Immigration Law, Tahmina was a partner at White & Watson from July 2006 to December 2008 practicing exclusively in the area of U.S. Immigration and Naturalization law.  Before that, Tahmina externed with His Honor Judge Ricardo Martinez at the District Court of Western Washington in downtown Seattle.   She also interned for multiple terms at the Northwest Women's Law Center (now known as Legal Voice). Tahmina is admitted to practice law in Washington State and the State of New York.  She is also admitted to the federal court of Western District of Washington.  She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and the King County Bar Association. Tahmina is currently an unregistered member of the Bar of England and Wales. Past memberships include the International Bar Association, The American Bar Association, King County Washington Women Lawyers and other minority bar associations. She continues to be a member of the Middle Temple in London, UK.  Tahmina is an Adjunct Fellow at The Niskanen Center, a Washington DC-based think tank. She advises on immigration policy issues. Tahmina currently serves as Chair of the Response Committee of the Washington Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA WA), a committee she helped create after the November 2016 election.  She currently serves on the Board of Trustee for the King County Bar Association.  In addition, Tahmina recently helped form a non-profit organization called WIDEN- Washington Immigrant Defense Network which combines skills of immigration and non-immigration lawyers to help indigent detainees.Her other community activities include serving on the board of Point Hope, an organization that helps children. She is an active member of the pro bono community in Seattle, e.g., Northwest Immigrants Rights Project, One America etc..  Tahmina often provides free legal advice at local legal clinics.  Furthermore, she is an active supporter of Chaya, a Seattle based non-profit organization that assists battered women from a South Asian background. She serves as Chair of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Global Entrepreneur in Residence Coalition. Tahmina is also a columnist with The Seattle Globalist.She proudly served as the 2009-2010 President of the King County Washington Women Lawyers (KCWWL).  She also served on the board of Washington Women Lawyers from 2008-2010.  In the past, she served on the board of the Asian Bar Association of Washington.  She recently completed her term on the Mercer Island School District Diversity Advisory Committee.  In addition, she was the Advocacy Consultant for the feature film ‘For Here or To Go?',  a movie that advocates for high-skilled immigration reform and a Startup Visa. She fluently speaks, reads, writes (and sings when playing her harmonium) Bengali, and knows conversational Hindi and Urdu.  In her spare time, Tahmina likes to volunteer in the community, listen to audio books and spend time with her family.  She is the designer and owner of Pinky's Shoebags, a novel storage solution for the woman who can never have too many shoes. Tahmina can be contacted at her practice http:/www.watsonimmigrationlaw.com or her podcast and author website which is http://www.tahminawatson.com. Her firm number is (206) 643-9707.  Her podcast Tahmina Talks Immigration is available on Apple, Spotify and other platforms.

Mental health issues such as anxiety and depression have no place in the legal workspace - at least that's the perception. In this podcast discussion, between two of the International Bar Association's Mental Wellbeing Task Force Heads for Africa, Isibor Aigbe and Banke Olagbegi-Oloba and George Artley, Bar Issues Commission project manager at the IBA, Tom Pearson learns about what is being done to address the stigma around mental health in the profession. A recent global study by the International Bar Association (IBA) into the mental wellbeing of those in the legal profession found that there is a general lack of knowledge about good practice when it comes to addressing the issue in the workplace and on an individual level. There are also no forums for sharing information on good practice, however the IBA intends to raise awareness of this taboo topic through its newly formed global task force of members. Artley says the information gleaned from the research will assist the task force in starting conversations in their workplaces and with their regulators and legal communities in their different countries. Aigbe talks about why lawyers in Africa ranked their levels of fatigue second to their North American counterparts. He says some lawyers have to take on two jobs to support their loved ones, due to the low income they receive. Other contributing factors that lead to increased stress levels were the unreasonable deadlines given to junior staff by their bosses as well as sexual harassment and bullying in the workplace. The failure by governments to provide robust mental health policies, that are inclusive and impactful, adds to the challenges. For Olagbegi-Oloba, the first step to addressing mental wellbeing is acknowledgment. “The most important way would be to recognise and accept that mental health issues exist within the profession. Unless and except this is done, I am afraid the challenge may continue to linger”. She recommends that partners, directors, and lawyers at management level come up with policies, programmes and coping strategies to deal with the illness. The lawyers offer their own coping strategies, which listeners will find useful when feeling overwhelmed. Read the full IBA report:https://www.ibanet.org/Mental-wellbeing-in-the-legal-profession

Tahmina is a Seattle-based immigration attorney, podcaster, and activist. She is the founder of Watson Immigration Law and founder of the Washington Immigrant Defense Network, which funds and supports legal services for detained low-income immigrants. She is also the co-founder of Airport Lawyers, which provided critical services helping vulnerable people affected by the travel bans. Tahmina will discuss the differences in immigration activity between the Trump and Biden administrations. https://watsonimmigrationlaw.com/Twitter: @tahminawatsonPodcast: Tahmina TalksTahmina Watson Bio:Tahmina Watson obtained her law degree and graduated from Brunel University, London, England in 2000. She was Called to the Bar in 2002 (became a barrister) as a member of the Middle Temple Inn. After completing her pupillage (apprenticeship) from Bridewell Chambers in London in 2004, Tahmina continued as a practicing barrister, handling mainly criminal defense matters, before relocating to the United States in 2005. She was affiliated with Temple Court Chambers in London as a Door Tenant until recently.Tahmina was admitted to the New York Bar in 2006.Prior to founding Watson Immigration Law, Tahmina was a partner at White & Watson from July 2006 to December 2008 practicing exclusively in the area of U.S. Immigration and Naturalization law.  Before that, Tahmina externed with His Honor Judge Ricardo Martinez at the District Court of Western Washington in downtown Seattle.   She also interned for multiple terms at the Northwest Women's Law Center (now known as Legal Voice).Admissions and membershipTahmina is admitted to practice law in Washington State and the State of New York.  She is also admitted to the federal court of Western District of Washington.  She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and the King County Bar Association. Tahmina is currently an unregistered member of the Bar of England and Wales. Past memberships include the International Bar Association, The American Bar Association, King County Washington Women Lawyers and other minority bar associations. She continues to be a member of the Middle Temple in London, UK.Adjunct FellowTahmina is an Adjunct Fellow at The Niskanen Center, a Washington DC-based think tank. She advises on immigration policy issues.Community ActivitiesTahmina currently serves as Chair of the Response Committee of the Washington Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA WA), a committee she helped create after the November 2016 election.  She currently serves on the Board of Trustee for the King County Bar Association.  In addition, Tahmina recently helped form a non-profit organization called WIDEN- Washington Immigrant Defense Network which combines skills of immigration and non-immigration lawyers to help indigent detainees.Her other community activities include serving on the board of Point Hope, an organization that helps children. She is an active member of the pro bono community in Seattle, e.g., Northwest Immigrants Rights Project, One America etc..  Tahmina often provides free legal advice at local legal clinics.  Furthermore, she is an active supporter of Chaya, a Seattle based non-profit organization that assists battered women from a South Asian background.She serves as Chair of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Global Entrepreneur in Residence Coalition. Tahmina is also a columnist with The Seattle Globalist.She proudly served as the 2009-2010 President of the King County Washington Women Lawyers (KCWWL). 

With the #ParoNacional still on-going in Colombia, we take on the subject of human rights and human rights law in the context of the situation here. For some background on our expert guests, read on: Maria Clara Galvis is a lawyer from the Externado University of Colombia. Professor Galvis has graduate studies in Compared Constitutional Law from the Universitá Degli Studi di Geneva. Since 2015, she has been a member of the United Nations Committee against Forced Disappearance and is currently its Vice President. Professor Galvis is also a researcher in the International Law at the Department of Constitutional Law of the Externado University of Colombia. She has been an advisor to the Procurator Delegate for Human Rights (1994-1995), the Attorney General's Office (1997-2000), the Attorney General's Office (2010-2011), assistant magistrate of the Superior Council of the Judiciary (2014-2015) and National Director of Promotion and Dissemination of Human Rights of the Ombudsman of Colombia (2016-2017). He has published academic articles and research on international human rights law, transitional justice, enforced disappearance, business, and human rights, women's rights, and the rights of indigenous peoples. See bio Veronica Hinestroza is an independent senior consultant and advisor on international human rights law. Her primary focus is on the documentation and investigations of grave human rights violations, particularly torture and ill-treatment, enforced disappearances and arbitrary killings. She is a member of the Steering Committee developing a universal protocol for human rights-compliant, lawful and effective questioning for the United Nations. She was a member of the working group to update the Istanbul Protocol - the United Nation's Manual for the effective investigation and documentation of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. During over 17 years spent promoting and supporting the development and implementation of IHRL and IHL standards at the national, regional and international levels, Verónica has worked for the World Organisation Against Torture, the German Agency for International Cooperation, the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (Latin America and East Timor), Impunity Watch, the World Bank, the International Centre for Transitional Justice, the Overseas Development Institute, Samusocial and the Externado de Colombia University. And the subjects we cover in the podcast: 1.How can this unrest be put into context within Latin America (Chile, Nicaragua)? 2.What is going on in Colombia and from a human rights perspective, what is the situation regarding the paro nacional? 3.Police brutality and use of excessive force? As I see it, the paro nacional finds its roots as a social problem yet the authorities are treating it as an issue of “law and order,” does this contribute to the problem of human rights abuses? 4.Why is the government selling a different narrative to foreign governments and what are they trying to do? 5.Who is responsible? We need to discuss who is in charge and who is giving the orders to state forces…is this something which is a collective or individual responsibility. There are reports of disappearances, there are killings and potentially cases of torture in addition to cases of sexual violence… 6.With the issue of the False Positives and the figure: 6402 which is heavily featured in the marches as one of the protestors' demands, “quien dio la orden,” Colombia is experiencing a very difficult moment in terms of its international reputation. 7.What do you both see as happening now, will there be any significant progress in terms of human rights in the short or long term and what can we expect from the visit of the CIDH arriving on 7 June? Tags and Keywords: human rights colombia, human right, maria clara galvis, veronica hinestroza, paro nacional, strikes colombia, police brutality, conflict colombia

Baroness Helena Kennedy QC one of Britain's most distinguished lawyers. She has spent her professional life giving voice to those who have least power within the system, championing civil liberties and promoting human rights. In an interview from a few years ago, Helena was asked about her best and worst days of works. Successes like the release of Paul Hill, one of The Guildford Four, is a given, but what was moving and powerful was to hear Helena talk of supporting and winning cases such as the battered women who killed their husbands after years of abuse. Or perhaps the wife of the bomb plotter accused of failing to inform on her husband. Helena has conducted many prominent cases of terrorism, official secrets and homicide. She is the founding force behind the establishment of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford. In 1997, she was elevated to the House of Lords where she is a Labour peer. She has published two books on how the justice system is failing women and has written and broadcasted on many issues over the years. Currently, she has taken on the role of Director to the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute. She directs the Institute's work upholding the rule of law and human rights globally. "Important in, in my sort of evolution, was that when you're at the bar, and you're doing a case - and I was a sort of warrior on behalf of people who were often the underdog. There is a thing about doing a case is that you would fight hammer and tongs with the person on the other side. But somehow, afterwards, you were still part of the same world, which was to preserve the rule of law. And so it was, it was one of the things that was an important part of maturing, was that you don't, you don't loathe the person who's who's on the other side. You have to find a way of having a proper discourse. There has to be some way in which you can cross that divide, if you want to make make any kind of progress."

En el episodio de hoy, tengo como invitada a Sahoori Rivera.   Sahoori es abogada, y se especializa en derecho transaccional. Es maestra en Derecho Internacional Privado por la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Ha trabajado para el sector público y privado, siendo asociada en despachos locales en Tijuana y transnacionales como King & Wood Mallesons, el más importante de Asia, lo cual le ha brindado un acercamiento inigualable con la cultura y forma de trabajo asiática.   Ha desarrollado proyectos corporativos, estructuras financieras y patrimoniales para la industria maquiladora, tecnologías y telecomunicaciones, bebidas y alimentos, turismo médico, y clientes privados, enfocándose en los aspectos centrales de todo negocio: estrategias mercantiles, inversiones extranjeras, hasta la resolución de conflictos contenciosos federales. Está certificada por The International Bar Association, Abogadas Mx, Young Scholars Initiative y es candidata a miembro del Ilustre Colegio Nacional de Abogados de México.   Le gusta el cine y ha sido premiada por sus críticas de cine en festivales internacionales como Los Cabos International Film Festival.   Y en este episodio, Sahoori y yo, platicamos sobre las cuestiones legales que necesitas al emprender un negocio en línea; emprender negocios de Cannabis en México; protección de datos y privacidad para el usuario. Por último, Sahoori nos comparte su opinión sobre en dónde se encuentra México en la regulación de nuevas tecnologías como la inteligencia artificial. Te dejo con el episodio con Sahoori Rivera.   ----------------------- ¿Quieres aprender a producir tu propio podcast en menos de una semana? HAZ CLICK EN ESTE ENLACE:  Curso: Lanza tu Podcast en una semana

The transition that any firm must undergo if it is to survive and thrive after its founders retire affects every aspect of the organisation. It is at the same time both strategic and intensely personal. For founding partners, it involves giving up control of an organisation that in many cases defines who they are and trusting the next generation to lead and manage it into a successful future. For that next generation, it means stepping up to a whole new level of responsibilities. It almost always involves difficult discussions, including about money, power and influence. For the firm’s employees, the outcome determines no less than their future livelihoods. For clients, such transitions can significantly impact the quality of service that they receive in both the long term and while the transition is underway. This issue is deeply relevant in 2021; the (then) young entrepreneurs who founded a disproportionately large number of professional service firms in the early 1990s are fast approaching retirement. Many have been immensely successful, building firms that stand proudly pre-eminent in their markets. The role that those founders will play in their twilight professional years, and indeed whether or not these firms will even survive without their founders, depends on how well the transition is planned and executed. In this panel discussion recording, you can hear Session Chair, Rob Millard (Founder, Cambridge Strategy Group – Law Firm Management Consultant) and esteemed panellists, Fernando Peláez-Pier (Founding Partner, Hoet Peláez Castillo & Duque- a former president of the International Bar Association and the Lex Mundi network), David Shufflebotham (Founder, PEP Up Consulting – Partner Remuneration Specialist), Claire Watkins (Partner, Buzzacott LLP – Head of Professional Practices Group) and Zulon Begum (Partner, CM Murray LLP – Partnership and M&A Law specialist), discuss and provide expert insights on the major challenges and considerations for such transitioning firms, including: The relative merits of potential exit models to balance founders’ and next generation partners’ interests, including a straight return of capital and profit share (or “naked in, naked out”); post-retirement annuities; consultancy arrangements; sale on exit based on agreed value (and typical valuation approaches and expectations); and returns based on a future capital event. Developing a governance transition strategy and adequate succession planning, including understanding the firm's current position and future requirements as well as managing timing and communications. Issues involved in transitioning family-owned firms, including challenges caused by not having clear, institutionalised governance, processes and opportunities for all partners, the need to have open early conversations about the exiting partners’ interests and to build consensus on the firm’s future. The legal and operational issues and how to approach key provisions in the firm’s constitutional documents, including weighting of founder and next generation voter rights, profit sharing arrangements, anti-embarrassment clauses, annuity provisions, post termination restrictive covenants, admission of new partners, partner “lock-in” provisions, mandatory retirement age and change to firm name clauses (amongst others).

Transitioning from Founder-Led to Perpetual Governance Models: The Most Difficult Challenge that Many Professional Service Firms ever face The transition that any firm must undergo if it is to survive and thrive after its founders retire affects every aspect of the organisation. It is at the same time both strategic and intensely personal. For founding partners, it involves giving up control of an organisation that in many cases defines who they are and trusting the next generation to lead and manage it into a successful future. For that next generation, it means stepping up to a whole new level of responsibilities. It almost always involves difficult discussions, including about money, power and influence. For the firm's employees, the outcome determines no less than their future livelihoods. For clients, such transitions can significantly impact the quality of service that they receive in both the long term and while the transition is underway. This issue is deeply relevant in 2021; the (then) young entrepreneurs who founded a disproportionately large number of professional service firms in the early 1990s are fast approaching retirement. Many have been immensely successful, building firms that stand proudly pre-eminent in their markets. The role that those founders will play in their twilight professional years, and indeed whether or not these firms will even survive without their founders, depends on how well the transition is planned and executed. In this panel discussion recording, you can hear Session Chair, Rob Millard (Founder, Cambridge Strategy Group – Law Firm Management Consultant) and esteemed panellists, Fernando Peláez-Pier (Founding Partner, Hoet Peláez Castillo & Duque- a former president of the International Bar Association and the Lex Mundi network), David Shufflebotham (Founder, PEP Up Consulting – Partner Remuneration Specialist), Claire Watkins (Partner, Buzzacott LLP – Head of Professional Practices Group) and Zulon Begum (Partner, CM Murray LLP – Partnership and M&A Law specialist), discuss and provide expert insights on the major challenges and considerations for such transitioning firms, including: The relative merits of potential exit models to balance founders' and next generation partners' interests, including a straight return of capital and profit share (or “naked in, naked out”); post-retirement annuities; consultancy arrangements; sale on exit based on agreed value (and typical valuation approaches and expectations); and returns based on a future capital event. Developing a governance transition strategy and adequate succession planning, including understanding the firm's current position and future requirements as well as managing timing and communications. Issues involved in transitioning family-owned firms, including challenges caused by not having clear, institutionalised governance, processes and opportunities for all partners, the need to have open early conversations about the exiting partners' interests and to build consensus on the firm's future. The legal and operational issues and how to approach key provisions in the firm's constitutional documents, including weighting of founder and next generation voter rights, profit sharing arrangements, anti-embarrassment clauses, annuity provisions, post termination restrictive covenants, admission of new partners, partner “lock-in” provisions, mandatory retirement age and change to firm name clauses (amongst others).

In this afternoon's episode, Steve Lawlor sits down with Sara Carnegie, from the International Bar Association, as they discuss the survey that the IBA have undertaken in relation to mental health within the legal profession, covering all continents with phenomenal findings. You'll also learn who Sara would love to sit down with for one night and talk to.

Patrick Tsang interviews Diana Hamade, founder of Diana Hamade Attorneys at Law, a boutique law firm awarded the law firm of 2020 by LexisNexis. In this interview, Diana shares her story of a young child moving from Lebanon to the UAE, her decision to pursue law, her advocacy through the law, and representing career women in the UAE. Diana also has a love for fashion and has been featured in Vogue Arabia, and Harper's Bazaar Arabia. As the Founder and Managing Partner of her boutique law firm, Diana Hamade is ranked in Band 1 of Chambers HNW Private Wealth Law in the United Arab Emirates. As a family lawyer and succession planning practitioner with expertise in Sharia she has become a recognized and well-reputed practitioner, especially concerning Family Business succession planning and Governance in the region. Diana is a member of the International Bar Association and the Vice-Chair of the Arab Regional Forum of the IBA. She is also a member of STEP Arabia and is on the board of the Special Interest Group of International HNW clients of STEP. She is also a member of the International Academy of Family Lawyers and a member of the Emirates Lawyers Association in the UAE. Find out more about Diana Hamade: https://dianahamadelaw.ae Follow Me: WEBSITE: http://anythingispossible.global​ LINKEDIN: http://linkedin.com/in/patrickpltsang​ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/anythingispo...​ TWITTER: http://twitter.com/patpltsang​ Sign up for my Newsletter: https://anythingispossible.global/contact

My guest is Stephen Page, an award-winning family lawyer from Brisbane. Admitted in 1987, Stephen has been an accredited family law specialist since 1996. He has presented at conferences around the world about family law. Stephen is a Fellow of both the International Academy of Family Lawyers and the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys. He holds several committee positions, including with the American Bar Association and the Queensland Law Society. Stephen is an international expert for the World Bank in its Women, Business and the Law survey, and he lectures in Law and Ethics in Reproductive Medicine at the University of New South Wales. He has written and presented about family law and surrogacy around the world including for the International Bar Association and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Stephen has received a number of awards, including the inaugural Pride in Law Award (2020). When he left uni in the '80s, he like other students wondered how the law might deal with reality when life began. To his amazement, in 2012 he acted in the first case in the world that said what it was to conceive a child. He never expected to be a pioneer in his field, but he was not prepared to accept the world as it was. In his spare time, Stephen chairs his daughter's daycare committee. Hear from Stephen on: How has family law changed in the time you have practiced it? What are the most significant legal changes that stand out in your professional experience, and what have they meant for families? Surrogacy laws are complex and have perhaps changed over time with a rise in people seeking legal advice upfront, perhaps where there are health or fertility risks for women to bear a child or same-sex couples wanting to have children with their own genetics from one or more partners. Is it simpler to have a surrogate overseas and bring a child home to Australia than locally? Why or why not? You have your own personal experience of family law with the legal recognition in 2019 that your daughter Elizabeth, born via a surrogate mother and your husband's sperm, and in QLD you set about closing a loophole prior where you could have up to 4 persons named on her birth certificate. Tell us more. The family court merger announced earlier this year has had a mix of reactions, many of them hostile by your peers. What is the reality of this for families going through the system now? To connect with Stephen go to: Facebook Linkedin

Sara Carnegie works at the International Bar Association as Director of Legal Projects. She is an experienced barrister who has spent 20 years in the criminal justice system and in the public sector. She joins us in this episode to talk about a few major challenges in the global corporate and legal spaces. We exchange ideas about mental wellbeing in the legal profession, modern-day slavery, and gender inclusivity. She also offered a message to her fellow women, who are still navigating a male-dominated profession. Afterward, Sara looks back at a negative encounter with her former supervisor, which she turned into a motivation that helped her in her path forward.  Let's listen to this episode and understand the biggest corporate and legal communication challenges today!  In this Episode: [00:01 - 05:20] Opening Segment Let's get to know Sara Carnegie Sara recalls her path to the legal space  [05:21 - 15:44] Mental Wellbeing and Communication  Using another language to communicate  Why this skill amazes Sara  Don't miss Sara's thoughts about mental wellbeing Sara discusses the services offered by the International Bar Association  [15:45 - 24:16] Modern-Day Slavery  Sara shares her insights about modern-day slavery  She breaks down the Non-Punishment Principle  [24:17 - 34:47] Dear Fellow Women... Sara talks about diversity and inclusion in the legal space  What is the “50-50 by 2030?” Here's Sara's advice for all the women out there Follow your passion Take a chance at something different if it makes sense [34:48 - 42:47] From a Negative Encounter into Motivation   The conversation that left you with the most impact With her former boss What communication skill would you have wanted to learn sooner? Not over-apologizing  The best communicators you know Her colleagues in the legal space  Stand-up comedians  [42:48 - 44:18] Closing Segment1 Boost your EQ by 10% and your sales by 20%! Free e-course link below Connect with Sara! Links below  Final words from me Tweetable Quotes: “If you don't love what you do, change it as much as you can.” - Sara Carnegie “Choose a direction that makes you feel alive and makes you feel inspired.” - Sara Carnegie Resources Mentioned:  FREE e-course to master body language and micro-expressions to boost your EQ by 10% and sales by 20%. Check it out https://bit.ly/3bGGN2Z (here).  International Bar Association - https://www.ibanet.org/IBAHRI.aspx (Human Rights Institute) Article: https://bit.ly/3wKcSip (Mental Wellbeing in the Legal Profession) Connect with Sara on https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-carnegie-93942898/ (LinkedIn) and https://twitter.com/SaraCarnegie1 (Twitter) and check out the https://www.ibanet.org/ (International Bar Association) to learn more about her work.  You can connect with me on https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregricecxeffortgeek/ (LinkedIn), https://twitter.com/gregjrice (Twitter), https://www.instagram.com/gregjrice/ (Instagram), and https://www.facebook.com/gregory.rice.372/ (Facebook). Join https://www.facebook.com/groups/jointhecommunicationnation/ (The Communication Nation) and learn from others in the community. Feel free to email me at gregrice79@yahoo.com, I'd love to hear from you! Want more help with your digital marketing? Go to my website https://gregjrice.com/inflection/ (https://gregjrice.com/inflection/) and let's have a conversation. LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who wants to expand their communication capacity by sharing this episode and listen to our previous episodes.

In this episode, we hear some highlights from Theirworld's International Women's Day event and speak with some of the event's attendees about girls’ education and gender equality Theirworld hosted its 7th annual International Women’s Day event on Thursday 4 March - but went virtual for the first time ever, due to Covid-19.  Covid-19 has put the issue of girls’ education firmly in the spotlight. Now more than ever, it’s important that we come together to hear from those who are campaigning to break down the barriers facing girls and discuss how we can act to unlock big change in the coming year. Hear from inspiring women, including Maysa Jalbout, Global Business Coalition for Education Advisory Member. Hiba Zakka al-Jamal, Head of SKILD ; Zarlasht Halaimzai, Director and Co-Founder of RTI. And Unlock Big Change Award winner - Theo Sowa, Former CEO of The African Women's Development Fund. As well as Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, Barrister and Director of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute. Jasvinder Sanghera CBE, Activist campaigner and founder Karma Nirvana. Tamara Box, Managing Partner, Europe and Middle East, and Senior Management Team, Reed Smith. Lorraine Candy, Journalist, Podcaster and parenting Author. Lorriann Robinson, Founder and Director, The Advocacy Team. Angela Saini, science journalist and author.  

This week in Episode 5 of the Legal Genie Podcast, your host, Lara Quie, is joined by Sara Carnegie, Director of Legal Projects at the International Bar Association.Sara has spent the bulk of her career working with the public sector in collaboration with influential government ministers, officials, the senior judiciary, lawyers, and law enforcement on a range of issues. She was the Director of Strategic Policy, at the Crown Prosecution Service and Legal Advisor to the Senior Presiding Judge, which involved leading the judicial team and working with the Lord Chief Justice, Government, and key stakeholders to implement broadcasting in the Court of Appeal.She has also led the legal teams for two high profile and sensitive public inquiries (the Detainee Inquiry and the Baha Mousa Enquiry), resulting in far-reaching change across relevant government departments. She sits in a judicial capacity on the council of the Inns of Court Disciplinary Tribunal and the Advisory Board for the National Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse.Her current role as Director of Legal Projects at the International Bar Association involves working in a global capacity leading a legal team who research, develop, and implement innovative projects relevant to business, the rule of law, the global legal profession and wider community. Significant projects include bullying, sexual harassment, and addressing mental wellbeing in the legal profession, modern slavery and cybersecurity. Sara is currently a member of the IBA Diversity and Inclusion Council and Rule of Law Forum and plays a central role in running initiatives and events to support both entities.In this episode she shares:Her background and why she became a barristerHer pupillage and challenges at the criminal barMoving into the civil service and prosecuting for Revenue & Customs prosecutions officeMotherhood and juggling a legal careerWorking in the civil service and public enquiries Her role as Legal advisor to the Senior Presiding Judge and bringing broadcasting into the Royal Courts of JusticeHer fascination with crimeHer role as Director of strategic policy at the Crown Prosecution Service and having a resilient mindsetMoving into the not-for-profit sector and her work at the International Bar AssociationThe importance of building relationshipsThe importance of mental health and wellbeing Having passion and purpose Her key advice for young lawyers You can connect with Sara Carnegie on her LinkedIn at:https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-carnegie-93942898 You can connect with Lara Quie on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/laraquieEmail: Lara@LaraQAssociates.comOr her website: https://www.laraqassociates.comPlease subscribe and review the podcast so that others can find it. You may also enjoy Lara's other podcast, The Coach Potatoes, which can be found here:https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/coach-potatoes-podcast/id1529949563 

Tim Ferriss Show Podcast Notes Key Takeaways To find your purpose is the best feeling ever, Martine describes it as “a lightning bolt to your soul”Science is about critical thinking and asking ‘Why’To cultivate more science in society, we have to relate it to people’s everyday livesPharmaceutical companies should get consent before mining genome data from remote isolated communities for the purpose of medicine development“I would say that one of the greatest unmet medical needs today is an adequate supply of transplantable organs”“I am absolutely convinced that in this decade, the 2020s, we will be delivering manufactured organs by electric helicopter” – Martine RothblattIn the future, people will be able to wear headsets that stimulate the vagus nerve to target particular ailments, with no pills or medical expenses“I believe this kind of bridging of electronics and the mind is really right around the corner” – Martine RothblattThe ability to create a technology doesn’t necessarily grant the right to make it, that right is coupled with the obligation to have the consent of whoever may be adversely affected by itIn a future full of innovation, techno-ethics is a field with rich possibilitiesHumans spewing greenhouse gases into an undeniably thin atmosphere, yet fearing nuclear energy, will seem barbaric to future generations“Identify the corridors of indifference and run like hell down them” – Martine RothblattRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgDr. Martine Rothblatt — A Masterclass on Asking Better Questions and Peering Into the Future | Brought to you by FreshBooks cloud-based small business accounting software, Headspace easy-to-use app with guided meditations, and Athletic Greens all-in-one nutritional supplement Dr. Martine Rothblatt (@skybiome) is Chairman and CEO of United Therapeutics, a biotechnology company she started to save the life of one of her daughters. The company offers FDA-approved medicines for pulmonary hypertension and neuroblastoma and is working on manufacturing an unlimited supply of transplantable organs.Dr. Rothblatt previously created and led Sirius XM as its Chairman and CEO and launched other satellite systems for navigation and international television broadcasting. In the field of aviation, her Sirius XM satellite system enhances safety with real-time digital weather information to pilots in flight nationwide. She also designed the world’s first electric helicopter and piloted it to a Guinness world record for speed, altitude, and flight duration.In the legal arena, Dr. Rothblatt led efforts of the transgender community to establish their own health law standards and of the International Bar Association to protect autonomy rights in genetic information via an international treaty. She also published dozens of scholarly articles and papers on the law of outer space, resulting in her election to the International Institute of Space Law, and represented the radio astronomy community’s scientific research interests before the Federal Communications Commission.She has bachelor’s (communications studies, summa cum laude), JD (Order of the Coif) and MBA degrees from UCLA, which in 2018 awarded her its highest recognition, the UCLA Medal, and she holds a PhD in medical ethics from the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry. Her patented inventions cover aspects of satellite communication, medicinal biochemistry, and cognitive software.Dr. Rothblatt’s recent books are on xenotransplantation (Your Life or Mine), gender identity (Transgender to Transhuman), and cyberethics (Virtually Human). She occasionally posts on Instagram at @transbinary and Twitter at @skybiome.Please enjoy!*This episode is brought to you by FreshBooks. I’ve been talking about FreshBooks—an all-in-one invoicing + payments + accounting solution—for years now. Many entrepreneurs, as well as the contractors and freelancers that I work with, use it all the time.FreshBooks makes it super easy to track things like expenses, project time, and client info, and then merge it all into great-looking invoices. FreshBooks can save users up to 200 hours a year on accounting and bookkeeping tasks. Right now FreshBooks is offering my listeners a free 30-day trial, and no credit card is required. Go to FreshBooks.com/Tim and enter “Tim Ferriss” in the “How did you hear about us?” section!*This episode is also brought to you by Headspace! Headspace is your daily dose of mindfulness in the form of guided meditations in an easy-to-use app. Whatever the situation, Headspace can help you feel better. Overwhelmed? Headspace has a 3-minute S.O.S. meditation for you. Need some help falling asleep? Headspace has wind-down sessions their members swear by. And for parents, Headspace even has morning meditations you can do with your kids. Headspace’s approach to mindfulness can reduce stress, improve sleep, boost focus, and increase your overall sense of well-being.Go to Headspace.com/Tim for a FREE one-month trial with access to Headspace’s full library of meditations for every situation.*This episode is also brought to you by Athletic Greens. I get asked all the time, “If you could only use one supplement, what would it be?” My answer is usually Athletic Greens, my all-in-one nutritional insurance. I recommended it in The 4-Hour Body in 2010 and did not get paid to do so. I do my best with nutrient-dense meals, of course, but AG further covers my bases with vitamins, minerals, and whole-food-sourced micronutrients that support gut health and the immune system. Right now, Athletic Greens is offering you their Vitamin D Liquid Formula free with your first subscription purchase—a vital nutrient for a strong immune system and strong bones. Visit AthleticGreens.com/Tim to claim this special offer today and receive the free Vitamin D Liquid Formula (and five free travel packs) with your first subscription purchase! That’s up to a one-year supply of Vitamin D as added value when you try their delicious and comprehensive all-in-one daily greens product.*If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the reviews!For show notes and past guests, please visit tim.blog/podcast.Sign up for Tim’s email newsletter (“5-Bullet Friday”) at tim.blog/friday.For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts.Discover Tim’s books: tim.blog/books.Follow Tim:Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss Instagram: instagram.com/timferrissFacebook: facebook.com/timferriss YouTube: youtube.com/timferriss

Podcast: The Tim Ferriss Show (LS 81 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: #487: Dr. Martine Rothblatt — A Masterclass on Asking Better Questions and Peering Into the FuturePub date: 2020-12-16Dr. Martine Rothblatt — A Masterclass on Asking Better Questions and Peering Into the Future | Brought to you by FreshBooks cloud-based small business accounting software, Headspace easy-to-use app with guided meditations, and Athletic Greens all-in-one nutritional supplement Dr. Martine Rothblatt (@skybiome) is Chairman and CEO of United Therapeutics, a biotechnology company she started to save the life of one of her daughters. The company offers FDA-approved medicines for pulmonary hypertension and neuroblastoma and is working on manufacturing an unlimited supply of transplantable organs.Dr. Rothblatt previously created and led Sirius XM as its Chairman and CEO and launched other satellite systems for navigation and international television broadcasting. In the field of aviation, her Sirius XM satellite system enhances safety with real-time digital weather information to pilots in flight nationwide. She also designed the world's first electric helicopter and piloted it to a Guinness world record for speed, altitude, and flight duration.In the legal arena, Dr. Rothblatt led efforts of the transgender community to establish their own health law standards and of the International Bar Association to protect autonomy rights in genetic information via an international treaty. She also published dozens of scholarly articles and papers on the law of outer space, resulting in her election to the International Institute of Space Law, and represented the radio astronomy community's scientific research interests before the Federal Communications Commission.She has bachelor's (communications studies, summa cum laude), JD (Order of the Coif) and MBA degrees from UCLA, which in 2018 awarded her its highest recognition, the UCLA Medal, and she holds a PhD in medical ethics from the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry. Her patented inventions cover aspects of satellite communication, medicinal biochemistry, and cognitive software.Dr. Rothblatt's recent books are on xenotransplantation (Your Life or Mine), gender identity (Transgender to Transhuman), and cyberethics (Virtually Human). She occasionally posts on Instagram at @transbinary and Twitter at @skybiome.Please enjoy!*This episode is brought to you by FreshBooks. I've been talking about FreshBooks—an all-in-one invoicing + payments + accounting solution—for years now. Many entrepreneurs, as well as the contractors and freelancers that I work with, use it all the time.FreshBooks makes it super easy to track things like expenses, project time, and client info, and then merge it all into great-looking invoices. FreshBooks can save users up to 200 hours a year on accounting and bookkeeping tasks. Right now FreshBooks is offering my listeners a free 30-day trial, and no credit card is required. Go to FreshBooks.com/Tim and enter “Tim Ferriss” in the “How did you hear about us?” section!*This episode is also brought to you by Headspace! Headspace is your daily dose of mindfulness in the form of guided meditations in an easy-to-use app. Whatever the situation, Headspace can help you feel better. Overwhelmed? Headspace has a 3-minute S.O.S. meditation for you. Need some help falling asleep? Headspace has wind-down sessions their members swear by. And for parents, Headspace even has morning meditations you can do with your kids. Headspace's approach to mindfulness can reduce stress, improve sleep, boost focus, and increase your overall sense of well-being.Go to Headspace.com/Tim for a FREE one-month trial with access to Headspace's full library of meditations for every situation.*This episode is also brought to you by Athletic Greens. I get asked all the time, “If you could only use one supplement, what would it be?” My answer is usually Athletic Greens, my all-in-one nutritional insurance. I recommended it in The 4-Hour Body in 2010 and did not get paid to do so. I do my best with nutrient-dense meals, of course, but AG further covers my bases with vitamins, minerals, and whole-food-sourced micronutrients that support gut health and the immune system. Right now, Athletic Greens is offering you their Vitamin D Liquid Formula free with your first subscription purchase—a vital nutrient for a strong immune system and strong bones. Visit AthleticGreens.com/Tim to claim this special offer today and receive the free Vitamin D Liquid Formula (and five free travel packs) with your first subscription purchase! That's up to a one-year supply of Vitamin D as added value when you try their delicious and comprehensive all-in-one daily greens product.*If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the reviews!For show notes and past guests, please visit tim.blog/podcast.Sign up for Tim's email newsletter (“5-Bullet Friday”) at tim.blog/friday.For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts.Discover Tim's books: tim.blog/books.Follow Tim:Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss Instagram: instagram.com/timferrissFacebook: facebook.com/timferriss YouTube: youtube.com/timferrissThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Melbourne-based barrister Daye Gang has been awarded the International Bar Association's Outstanding Young Lawyer Award for 2020, one of the legal world's most prestigious honours. - 한국의 민간단체 북한인권시민연합과 함께 북한 인권 활동을 하고 있는 멜버른의 한인 동포 강다예 법정 변호사는 북한의 법을 영어로 번역해서 공개하는 웹 사이트를 운영하고 있다. 강 변호사는 “이민자 정신으로 도전했다”라며 “법조인이 가진 권력을 힘없는 사람들과 나누고 싶다”라고 밝혔다.

Dr. Martine Rothblatt — The Incredible Polymath of Polymaths | Brought to you by FreshBooks cloud-based small business accounting software, Headspace easy-to-use app with guided meditations, and Athletic Greens all-in-one nutritional supplement Dr. Martine Rothblatt (@skybiome) is Chairman and CEO of United Therapeutics, a biotechnology company she started to save the life of one of her daughters. The company offers FDA-approved medicines for pulmonary hypertension and neuroblastoma and is working on manufacturing an unlimited supply of transplantable organs.Dr. Rothblatt previously created and led Sirius XM as its Chairman and CEO and launched other satellite systems for navigation and international television broadcasting. In the field of aviation, her Sirius XM satellite system enhances safety with real-time digital weather information to pilots in flight nationwide. She also designed the world’s first electric helicopter and piloted it to a Guinness world record for speed, altitude, and flight duration.In the legal arena, Dr. Rothblatt led efforts of the transgender community to establish their own health law standards and of the International Bar Association to protect autonomy rights in genetic information via an international treaty. She also published dozens of scholarly articles and papers on the law of outer space, resulting in her election to the International Institute of Space Law, and represented the radio astronomy community’s scientific research interests before the Federal Communications Commission.She has bachelor’s (communications studies, summa cum laude), JD (Order of the Coif) and MBA degrees from UCLA, which in 2018 awarded her its highest recognition, the UCLA Medal, and she holds a PhD in medical ethics from the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry. Her patented inventions cover aspects of satellite communication, medicinal biochemistry, and cognitive software.Dr. Rothblatt’s recent books are on xenotransplantation (Your Life or Mine), gender identity (Transgender to Transhuman), and cyberethics (Virtually Human). She occasionally posts on Instagram at @transbinary and Twitter at @skybiome.Please enjoy!*This episode is brought to you by FreshBooks. I’ve been talking about FreshBooks—an all-in-one invoicing + payments + accounting solution—for years now. Many entrepreneurs, as well as the contractors and freelancers that I work with, use it all the time.FreshBooks makes it super easy to track things like expenses, project time, and client info, and then merge it all into great-looking invoices. FreshBooks can save users up to 200 hours a year on accounting and bookkeeping tasks. Right now FreshBooks is offering my listeners a free 30-day trial, and no credit card is required. Go to FreshBooks.com/Tim and enter “Tim Ferriss” in the “How did you hear about us?” section!*This episode is also brought to you by Headspace! Headspace is your daily dose of mindfulness in the form of guided meditations in an easy-to-use app. Whatever the situation, Headspace can help you feel better. Overwhelmed? Headspace has a 3-minute S.O.S. meditation for you. Need some help falling asleep? Headspace has wind-down sessions their members swear by. And for parents, Headspace even has morning meditations you can do with your kids. Headspace’s approach to mindfulness can reduce stress, improve sleep, boost focus, and increase your overall sense of well-being.Go to Headspace.com/Tim for a FREE one-month trial with access to Headspace’s full library of meditations for every situation.*This episode is also brought to you by Athletic Greens. I get asked all the time, “If you could only use one supplement, what would it be?” My answer is usually Athletic Greens, my all-in-one nutritional insurance. I recommended it in The 4-Hour Body in 2010 and did not get paid to do so. I do my best with nutrient-dense meals, of course, but AG further covers my bases with vitamins, minerals, and whole-food-sourced micronutrients that support gut health and the immune system. Right now, Athletic Greens is offering you their Vitamin D Liquid Formula free with your first subscription purchase—a vital nutrient for a strong immune system and strong bones. Visit AthleticGreens.com/Tim to claim this special offer today and receive the free Vitamin D Liquid Formula (and five free travel packs) with your first subscription purchase! That’s up to a one-year supply of Vitamin D as added value when you try their delicious and comprehensive all-in-one daily greens product.*If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the reviews!For show notes and past guests, please visit tim.blog/podcast.Sign up for Tim’s email newsletter (“5-Bullet Friday”) at tim.blog/friday.For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts.Discover Tim’s books: tim.blog/books.Follow Tim:Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss Instagram: instagram.com/timferrissFacebook: facebook.com/timferriss YouTube: youtube.com/timferriss

Korea24 – 2020.12.01. (Tuesday) - News Briefing: Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-youl returned to work on Tuesday afternoon almost immediately after a Seoul court lifted his suspension. Arriving at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office in southern Seoul, Yoon expressed gratitude to the judiciary for its swift decision that allowed him to quickly return to duty. (Robert Koehler) - In-Depth News Analysis: Dr. Bryan Kim from the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency(KDCA) talks about the greater Seoul area enforcing the so-called Level Two plus alpha social distancing measures and discusses where it lies in the nation's 5-tier system. He also explains what these additional measures are and assesses the chances of the level being raised. - Korea Trending with Lee Ju-young: Two KBO stars from the KT Wiz take the season's MVP and the Rookie of the Year(로하스 & 소형준), the hit Spanish series "Money Heist" will have a Korean remake(종이의 집), and BTS lands the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for the third time with "Life Goes On" (빌보드 싱글차트). - Touch Base in Seoul: Barrister Daye Gang, the first Korean and Australian to win the International Bar Association's Outstanding Young Lawyer Award, discusses her work in restorative justice for victims of sexual and family violence and her project that aims to translate all available North Korean laws into English. - Morning Edition Preview with Mark Wilson-Choi: Mark shares a piece from the Korea Times that talks about a monograph on the artist Yoo Young-kuk and a Korea Herald piece that covers the military becoming more tolerant of tattoos and obesity.

International Bar Association. The Council of the International Bar Association passed a resolution in 2009 endorsing a substantive or "thick" definition of the rule of law: An independent, impartial judiciary; the presumption of innocence; the right to a fair and public trial without undue delay; a rational and proportionate approach to punishment; a strong and independent legal profession; strict protection of confidential communications between lawyer and client; equality of all before the law; these are all fundamental principles of the Rule of Law. Accordingly, arbitrary arrests; secret trials; indefinite detention without trial; cruel or degrading treatment or punishment; intimidation or corruption in the electoral process, are all unacceptable. The Rule of Law is the foundation of a civilized society. It establishes a transparent process accessible and equal to all. It ensures adherence to principles that both liberate and protect. The IBA calls upon all countries to respect these fundamental principles. It also calls upon its members to speak out in support of the Rule of Law within their respective communities. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/law-school/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/law-school/support

Nabiha Syed is the President of The Markup. Just what is The Markup, you ask? If this is your introduction to The Markup, we stand as both disheartened that you’re not already a regular reader, yet delighted that we may serve as your guide by way of this week’s show. The Markup, an investigative journalism startup that explores how powerful actors use technology to reshape society, which, if you’ve never explored the pages of the publication, might sound like a bite far too big for any publication to take. And yet, what we hope you discover in our conversation this week, this approach is not only a standard readily achievable, but with the right tools and an eager team, it can serve as a standard bearer for other institutions of the fourth estate to follow. It turns out that beyond the top notch journalistic chops, central to The Markup’s DNA is a dedication to developing and releasing the same data analytics investigative tools used by their reporters. This transparency in the process allows the publication to report news that is, as Syed calls it, “bulletproof.” And you can get in on the action. Take Blacklight, for example. This Markup service asks you to input any website address you frequent and will report back the user-tracking technologies at work on that site that are accessing information about you through your computer and your behavior while using it. Why would they need such a tool at the news site? Because data — and how it moves through our economy — is part of the central story of the anthropocene. The Markup has invested as heavily in technology tools and journalists as it has in traditional journalism and the results show in every story. That’s why we’re so lucky to have Nabiha Syed on the show this week. We talk about what it means to exist in the journalism space, and about building a news organization bespoke for us, our modern age, and dedicated to the modern information perils that stand before us. Links & NotesThe Markup‘The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website’ by Aaron Sankin and Surya Mattu — The MarkupBlacklight — The Markup Follow Nabiha on Twitter Connect with Nabiha on LinkedIn About Nabiha SyedPreviously, she was Vice President and Associate General Counsel at BuzzFeed. As the company’s first newsroom lawyer, she oversaw litigation, including the “Steele Dossier” litigation, as well as select intellectual property, security, international, and cross-company strategic initiatives. Nabiha has been described as “one of the best emerging free speech lawyers” by Forbes magazine. Before BuzzFeed, Nabiha was an associate at Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, a leading media law firm, and the First Amendment Fellow at The New York Times. She has worked on legal access issues at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; represented asylum-seekers in south Texas; counseled on whether to publish hacked materials; and spoken about misinformation at the inaugural Obama Foundation Summit. For her work, Nabiha was named a “40 Under 40 Rising Star” by the New York Law Journal in 2016, a finalist for the Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year Award from the International Bar Association in 2017, and received an inaugural Reporter’s Committee for the Freedom of the Press award in 2018. She holds a law degree from Yale Law School and from Balliol College, Oxford University, which she attended as a Marshall Scholar.

Kieran Pender is a Senior Legal Advisor at the International Bar Association based in London, England. While in that role, he has lead some interesting research titled “Us too” which focuses on sexual harassment in the workplace around the globe.  He is also a writer and reports for The Guardian, Monocle, Inside Sport and SBS. On this Episode: Hear Kieran give the background to his work and research and talks about the legal difference between bullying and harassment. Kieran shares recommendations for communicating bullying and harassment. Kieran and Greg talk about confronting denial when it comes to ourselves in communication and leadership. Hear Kieran explain some of the ways this varies across the globe. Kieran talks about what people should do when they feel they have been bullied or harassed. Kieran and Greg talk about the importance of by-standers calling out the improper conduct they see.  Key Takeaways: Be more self-reflective on a regular basis. Implement everyday inclusivity.  While we should focus on preventing harassment, still provide a comfortable space for people to be able to speak up. Tweetable Quotes: “This is a global challenge. It looks somewhat different locally, but we are all at different stages on an identical path. We can learn from each other, and we can learn from different cultural contexts.” - Kieran “The standard you walk by is the standard you are prepared to accept.”  Kieran Pender: Read the Us Too report on the International Bar Association website Connect with Kieran on Twitter @kieranpender Resources: Website: https://gregjrice.com/ (https://gregjrice.com ) If you want to see how we can help you in digital marketing:https://gregjrice.com/inflection/ ( https://gregjrice.com/inflection/) Join me on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/jointhecommunicationnation (https://www.facebook.com/groups/jointhecommunicationnation)

Gender-based crimes, especially rape, sexual violence and forced marriage, are extremely common in times of war. The consequences for victims and their communities are devastating. Despite that, these crimes have historically been largely invisible in international war crimes trials. For the last 10 years, Dr Rosemary Grey's work has focused on making gender-based crimes more visible in international war crime trials in order to increase justice to victims, especially women and girls. In this podcast, Dr Rosemary Grey talks with Dr Natali Pearson about the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, which sexual violence and gender-based crimes it did or did not prosecute, as well as the role of art as a tool for justice and healing for these crimes. About Dr Rosemary Grey: Rosemary joined the University of Sydney as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre and the Sydney Law School. Rosemary's research focuses on gender & international criminal law, particularly the prosecution of gender-based crimes in the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). In 2019, she published a book with Cambridge University Press, entitled 'Prosecuting Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes at the International Criminal Court'. Recently she's turned her attention to matters of accountability and inclusivity in other global courts. She is currently working to conduct the first comprehensive gender assessment of the United Nations backed ‘Khmer Rouge Tribunal, whose mandate is to prosecute genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other offences committed in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. Rosemary has consulted and interned for key organisations in the international criminal justice field, including Amnesty International, Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice, the International Bar Association, and the ICC. You can follow Rosemary on Twitter @Rosemary_Grey.

In this episode, I am joined by Ian McDougall, the General Counsel for LexisNexis. He is also the President of the LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation. McDougall is also the Chair of the Global Marketing Committee, where responsible for Professional Association relationships and responsible for Global Rule of Law development. McDougall has a uniquely wide ranging and high-level experience in the delivery of legal advice to substantial corporations at board level (both as a board member and as adviser to the board). Finally, he has presented to and made speeches at the highest international levels; including the International Bar Association, the General Assembly of the United Nations Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organisation, and ministers from various governments internationally. In this podcast, you will learn how and why McDougall is so passionate about the Rule of Law. Some of the highlights include: Why McDougall is so passionate about the Rule of Law. What are McDougall’s 4 principles for defining the Rule of Law? What is the difference of the Rule by Law and the Rule of Law? What are three reasons why McDougall believes the Rule of Law is even more crucial at this point in time? How does the Rule of Law lead the discussion around the areas of the profession of Law, Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship? Resources Text of Ian McDougall speech on The Rule of Law to IBA Annual Conference Rule of Law Symposium – Rome 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The extradition hearing for Julian Assange continues as he battles against the US and British states' determination to make an example of anyone who brings their misdeeds to light - particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the process he has suffered many injustices and his treatment has been condemn by the UN rapporteur on torture and the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute.

The One Take Show brings to you the 8th episode featuring Ms Aarushi Mehta, Human Rights Institute Intern, International Bar Association and Youth Consultant, WHO; in conversation with Kaustubh, discussing her experience with International Humanitarian Law and the Impact of Covid 19 on Human Rights.

From the instant that a State receives an early warning that mass atrocities are likely to occur, what, precisely, is it required to do in response? There is wide agreement that a duty to prevent atrocity crimes exists as a matter of both treaty and customary international law, but little agreement as to the specific content of the obligation. This need has become particularly acute as States hesitate to sign up for new multilateral treaties containing preventive provisions, and courts hesitate to enforce existing preventive duties. The obscurity surrounding preventive obligations is further complicated by the complex legal framework governing atrocity crimes, and the fact that the duty to prevent genocide, crimes against and humanity and war crimes each holds a separate status under the law, derived from distinct sources and the product of unique legal histories. In light of the fact that the precise nature of a crime is often not apparent until the bloodshed has begun, how are States meant to operationalize their responsibilities from the moment that risk appears? This talk will examine States' preventive obligations in relation to genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, by first reviewing the legal frameworks governing each atrocity crime, and then assessing the areas in which further clarity is needed. It will seek to articulate further procedural and substantive guidance as to the specific content of the duty to prevent from the moment that early warnings are provided, particularly in view of the International Court of Justice's recent Provisional Measures decision in the case between The Gambia and Myanmar. Finally, it will conclude by proposing to derive a procedural obligation from the duty to prevent, imported from other areas of public international law, which would assist in filling some of the key operational voids in implementing State responsibility before atrocities have begun. Shannon Raj Singh is a Visiting Fellow of Practice at Oxford with the Blavatnik School of Government's Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) Programme on International Peace and Security. She is also an Associate Legal Officer at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, where she advises the Appeals Chamber and the Office of the President on the first terrorism trial before an international criminal tribunal. At ELAC, Shannon is researching the prevention of mass atrocities with Federica D'Alessandra, Executive Director of the Oxford Programme on International Peace and Security. Together, they are working to articulate the preventive duties of States in relation to genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, and to provide substantive guidance as to implementing and operationalizing the due diligence standard. The research is intended to be part of a stream of work to guide policymakers working in the atrocity prevention and accountability space. Shannon is also an advisor to the Transatlantic Network on Atrocity Prevention, an action-oriented network for engagement across governments, multilateral institutions, academia, and practitioners. Shannon is an American attorney licensed to practice in California, and a graduate of UCLA and the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law. She is also an Officer for the War Crimes Committee of the International Bar Association, and its Special Rapporteur on the ILC Draft Articles on Crimes Against Humanity. She has spoken on expert panels around the world on international criminal law, atrocity prevention, and the intersection of technology and human rights.

A global study across 135 countries by the International Bar Association has found that bullying and sexual harassment is widespread in the legal profession. The report makes a number of recommendations to change the culture and work environment in the law office. NB* This program was first broadcast 20 August 2019.

*Content warning: bullying and sexual harassment* In 2018, the International Bar Association undertook the largest ever survey on bullying and sexual harassment in the law, and compiled over 7000 responses from 135 countries. They found that 1 in 2 women and 1 in 3 men had been bullied in the workplace, and the majority of incidents of bullying and sexual harassment were never reported. SULS hosted a panel earlier this year, discussing how young lawyers and law students can tackle bullying and sexual harassment in the profession. Part 1 includes: - an introduction to the report (0:00-1:57) - a Q&A with Jeremy Chan, the President of SULS (1:57-9:20) - a speech from Kieran Pender, author of the IBA report (9:20-17:46) - a speech from The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG, former Justice of the High Court of Australia (17:46-28:59) Part 2 is the panel. If this episode has made you want to talk to someone, you can seek support from the University of Sydney's free counselling service (CAPS), your GP, or your personal support network. Today is also R U OK? Day - take the time to ask a friend if they're okay. And if there's anything impacting your experience at law school, or if you have feedback on how SULS can represent and support you better, we're here to help and to listen - please feel free reach out to president@suls.org.au at any time. Here are links to SULS' Student Support Services Handbook, SULS' Employment and Workplace FAQ, and ALSA's statement on bullying and harassment in the workplace.

A global study across 135 countries by the International Bar Association has found that bullying and sexual harassment is widespread in the legal profession. The report makes a number of recommendations to change the culture and work environment in the law office.

A global study across 135 countries by the International Bar Association has found that bullying and sexual harassment is widespread in the legal profession. The report makes a number of recommendations to change the culture and work environment in the law office.

A global study across 135 countries by the International Bar Association has found that bullying and sexual harassment is widespread in the legal profession. The report makes a number of recommendations to change the culture and work environment in the law office.

We hear about it happening on our school playgrounds and online in social media, but does the law profession have a bullying problem too? The answer is yes and according to a new study released by the International Bar Association, bullying has become an epidemic in the legal field and it's getting worse. This weekend, Alan interviews the International Bar Association's senior legal advisor Kieran Pender, about the alarming statistics from the widespread survey. We will also hear from bullying prevention educator Eleni Theodorou about what can be done to mitigate this kind of negative behavior, even when management is reluctant to take action. Tune into the conversations on Sundays at 5 p.m. on KABC Talkradio and streaming live on kabc.com! #bullying #bully #bullyprevention #talkradio #interview #cyberbully

Last October, at the Annual Meeting of the International Bar Association in Rome, I was fortunate enough to be introduced to Katherine Meighan, the General Counsel of IFAD, the International Fund for Agricultural Development.  Katherine gave an eye-opening presentation at the IBA conference on IFAD’s efforts to address the issue of food security and world hunger, and I knew I had to have her on the podcast to share her message and to dig deeper into her work as General Counsel and IFAD’s incredible work in general. Katherine’s unique background has served her well in preparing for the role of IFAD General Counsel.  Before joining IFAD, Katherine was Assistant General Counsel and Manager at the International Finance Corporation, where Katherine led the legal work globally for Financial Institutions, Treasury, and restructuring/litigation.  During her 17 years at IFC, Katherine was based in Buenos Aires, Istanbul, and Washington, D.C.  Previously, Katherine worked at a global law firm in Washington, D.C. and Paris focusing on international transactions and capital markets work for financial institutions.  Katherine has a law degree from the University of Virginia and an undergraduate degree from William & Mary, where she is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Center. In our conversation, Katherine tells us more about IFAD, the entities with which it works, and how it operates.  Katherine explains why the organization focuses on supporting agricultural development of the “rural poor” and the “missing middle.”  I had Katherine walk me through the Sustainable Development Goals set-out by the United Nations and how IFAD has developed innovative funding mechanisms to leverage private funds and create partnerships to make progress on increasing food security worldwide. We also touched upon the important social issues affecting global agriculture, including climate change and mass migration, as well as the tremendous gap between the number of women worldwide who are involved in food production and the number of women who actually own and manage land. As you will hear, Katherine is passionate about her work, and I really enjoyed getting to learn more about her and IFAD’s inspiring and important mission to eradicate hunger for the world’s most underserved rural poor.  Bergeson & Campbell’s interest in food security is rooted in our deep engagement in the law and science of precision agriculture and fertilizers, and we are really excited to share with you IFAD’s important work on food security.  So, here is my discussion with Katherine Meighan, General Counsel of the International Fund for Agricultural Development. ALL MATERIALS IN THIS PODCAST ARE PROVIDED SOLELY FOR INFORMATIONAL  AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES. THE MATERIALS ARE NOT INTENDED TO CONSTITUTE LEGAL ADVICE OR THE PROVISION OF LEGAL SERVICES. ALL LEGAL QUESTIONS SHOULD BE ANSWERED DIRECTLY BY A LICENSED ATTORNEY PRACTICING IN THE APPLICABLE AREA OF LAW.

The APJ sat down with Babatunde Fagbohunlu for an interview during a visit for the 2019 Africa Development Conference. Fagbohunlu is a partner at Aluko & Oyebode where he heads the firm’s dispute resolution and maritime practice groups, and specialises in commercial litigation and arbitration with particular emphasis on complex commercial matters. He regularly represents Nigerian, foreign and multi-national clients in high-profile proceedings before the ICC International Court of Arbitration and the London Court of International Arbitration. Fagbohunlu is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, and is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association; International Bar Association; London Court of International Arbitration; and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

A pair (one and two) of K. Feath pieces in MN Lawyer outlining what went down with the Public Safety/Judiciary budgetReport from the International Bar Association on harassment and bullying in the legal profession, as well as a MN Lawyer piece highlighting the finding that a third of female lawyers are sexually harassedHere's everything we know about the lake-naming controversy (post-recording update: the State has appealed the COA ruling to the MN Supreme Court)Court of appeals opinion in Firefighters Union v. City of BrainerdOral argument in Firefighters Union v. City of Brainerd (podcast form here)Briefing in Firefighters Union v. City of Brainerd:Appellant (City of Brainerd) briefRespondent (Firefighters Union) briefAppellant (City of Brainerd) reply brief

Lecture Summary: While sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) provide significant opportunities for countries to finance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), such investments often raise environmental, social, and governance (ESG) questions in host countries. This lecture analyzes the role of international law in addressing ESG risks in transnational SWF investments. It discusses the guiding principles of socially responsible SWF investments in international law. Dr Damilola OlawuyiDamilola S. Olawuyi is an expert in energy, environment and sustainable development law. He is an Associate Professor of Law at the HBKU Law School, Doha, Qatar, and Director of the Institute for Oil, Gas, Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (OGEES Institute), Nigeria. He is currently a Herbert Smith Freehills Visiting Professor at Cambridge Law Faculty. His most recent book publications are Extractives Industry Law in Africa (Springer, 2018) and The Human Rights-Based Approach to Carbon Finance (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Dr. Olawuyi has lectured on energy and environmental law in over 40 countries. Dr. Olawuyi serves on the executive committees and boards of several organizations. He is Vice Chair of the International Law Association; co-chair of the Africa Interest Group of the American Society of International Law (2016-2019); and member of the Academic Advisory Group of the International Bar Association’s Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law (SEERIL). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy.

Dr True Ott PhD, American 30 Points of Truth, Review to Point, Luciferic Vatican UN IMF Scam, Get How to Win in Court, File Pro Se, Don’t Run for Fake Office, Don’t Buy Into False Legal Systems, Read Plan Pray Act for Personal and Corporate Greater Good of Mankind, Read the Documents, GOD will Remove Evil with the Rapture, Restoration of the Covenant of Eden, Fusion of Eternal GOD with Bride of Saved Humanity SOON!, Dr Bill Deagle MD AAEM ACAM A4M, NutriMedical Report Show, www.NutriMedical.com, www.ClayandIRON.com, www.Deagle-Network.com,NutriMedical Report Show,https://atrueott.wordpress.com/2018/09/04/30-facts-about-america/30 Facts About AmericaFiled under: Uncategorized — 8 CommentsSeptember 4, 2018I originally wrote this back in 2011. It is even more pertinent in 2018.You want to “drain the swamp”? You have to get REAL about REALITY – which means you have to research these 30 facts and the source documentation behind them.True In order to understand what is REALLY going on covertly, “behind the curtain” in America – one needs to internalize and understand the following 30 basic facts about “The Powers That Be”. (TPTB).Thirty Little Known Facts about America1. The IRS is NOT a U.S. Government Agency. It is an Agency of the IMF. Sources: Diversified Metal Products v IRS et al. CV-93-405E-EJEU.S.D.C.I.Public Law 94-564Senate Report 94-1148, pg 5967Reorganization Plan #26Public Law 102-3912. The IMF is an Agency of the U.N. and was organized in 1944 at Bretton Woods, N.H. well before WWII was concluded.Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 6th Ed. Pg 8163. The United States has NOT had a Treasury since 1921.41 Stat. Ch. 214 page 6544. The U.S. Treasury is now the IMF.Presi dential Documents Volume 29 No. 4 page 113Source: 22 U.S.C. 285-2885. The U.S. does not have any employees because there is no longera United States. No more reorganizations. After 200 years of bankruptcy it is finally over.Source: Executive Order 128036. The FCC, CIA, FBI, NSA and all of the other Alphabet Gangs werenever part of the U.S. Government, even though the ‘U.S. Governmentheld stock in said ‘Agencies’.Sources: U.S. v. Strang, 254 U.S. 491Lewis v. U.S., 680 F.2d, 12397. Social Security Numbers are issued by the UN through the IMF. The application for a SSN is the SS5 form. The Department of the Treasury (IMF) issues the SS5, not the ‘Social Security Administration. The new SS5 forms do not state who publishes them while the old form states they are Department of Treasury.Source: 20 CFR Chap. 111 Subpart B 422.103 (b)8. There are NO Judicial Courts in America and there have not been any in America since 1789.Judges do NOT enforce Statutes and Codes. “Executive Administrators” enforce Statutes and Codes. Thus, the “Uniform Commercial Code” is the supreme law of the courts, NOT the U.S. Constitution.Sources: FRC v. GE, 281 U.S. 464Keller v. Potomac Elec. Co., 261 U.S. 4281 Stat. 138-1789. There have NOT been any ‘Judges’ in America since 1789.There have only been “Executive Administrators”. (Now you know why “judges” will hold you in “contempt” if you cite the U.S. Constitution in their presence.)Sources: FRC v. GE, 281 U.S. 464Keller v. Potomac Elec. Co., 261 U.S. 4281 Stat. 138-17810. According to GATT provisions, you MUST have a Social Security Number.Source: House Report 103-82611. New York City is defined in the Federal Regulations as the “United Nations”. Rudolph Guiliani stated on C-Span that “New York City is the Capital of the World”. For once, he told the truth.Source: 20 CFR Chap. 111 subpart B 422.103 (b) (2) (2)12. Social Security is NOT insurance nor is it a binding contract. Nor is there a “Trust Fund”.Source: Helvering v. Davis, 301 U.S. 619Steward Co. v. Davis, 301 U.S. 54813. Your Social Security check comes directly from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which is a “for profit corporate agency” of the United Nations. Examine one SS Check: top-left should be written ‘United States Treasurysee 2-4 above.14. You actually own NO property. Slaves can’t own property, you see. Read carefully the Deed to the property you think is yours. You are listed as “a TENANT”. Often times the Mortgage Holder or the State is listed as “Seised in demesne as of fee”.Source: Senate Document 43, 73rd Congress 1st Session( What is “Seised in demesne as of fee” and what does this Latin Legal term mean? This is the strict technical legal expression used to describe the ownership in “an estate in fee-simple in possession in a corporeal hereditament”. The word “seised” is used to express the “seisin or owner’s possession of a freehold property”; the phrase ‘in demesne’, or ‘in his demesne’, (in dominico suo) signifies that he’s seised as owner of the land itself, and not merely of the seigniory services; and the concluding words, ‘as of fee, import that he is seised of an estate of inheritance in fee-simple. Where the subject is incorporeal, or the estate expectant on a precedent freehold, the words ‘in his demesne are omitted. Source: (Co. Litt. 17a; Fleta, 1.5, c. 5, 18; Bract. 1.4, tr. 5, c. 2, 2) Brown. “Black’s Law DictionaryFourth Edition, page 1523.15. The most powerful court in America is NOT the United States Supreme Court, but the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.Source: 42 Pa. C.S.A. 50216. The King of England financially backed both sides of the Revolutionary War.Source: Treaty of Versailles. Signed July 16, 1782Treaty of Peace 8 Stat. 8017. You CANNOT use the U.S. Constitution to defend yourself because you are NOT a party to it.Source: Padelford Fay & Co. v. The Mayor & Alderman of the City of Savannah, 14Georgia 438, 52018. America is a British Colony. The ‘United States’ is a corporation, not a land mass and it existed before the Revolutionary War and the occupying British Troops did not leave until 1796.Sources: Respublica v. Sweers, 1 Dallas 43Treaty of Commerce 8 Stat 116Treaty of Peace 8 Stat 80IRS Publication 6209Articles of Association October 20, 177419. Britain is owned by the Vatican.Source: Treaty of 121320. The Pope can therefore abolish any law in the United States.Source: Elements of Ecclesiastical Law Vol. 1, 53-5421. A 1040 Form is for Tribute paid to Britain.Source: IRS Publication 620922. The Pope claims to own the entire world through the laws of Conquest and Discovery.(Ever wonder why an Attorney, who is an often unwitting Agent of the Pope through the International Bar Association, wants to do “discovery” with you?)Source: Papal Bulls of 1495 & 149323. The Pope has ordered the genocide and enslavement of Millions of people.Source: Papal Bulls of 1455 & 149324. The Pope’s ‘Laws’ are obligatory on everyone on the earth.Source: Bened. XIV., De Syn. Dioec, lib, ix, c. vii., n.4. Prati, 1844Syllabus prop 28, 29, 4425. We are SLAVES and own ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Not even what we think are “our children”.Source: Tillman v. Roberts, 108 So. 62Van Koten v. Van Koten, 154 N.E. 146Senate Document 43, 73rd Congress 1st SessionWynehammer v. People, 13 N.Y. Rep 378, 48126. Military Dictator George Washington divided up the States (aka Estates) into Districts.Source: Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 1 page 991828 Dictionary definition of ‘Estate27. ‘We, The People” does NOT include the General Populace, or what you THINK is ‘We, The People”.Source: Barron v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, 32 U.S. 24328. It is NOT the ‘duty of the police to protect you. Their job is simply to protect THE STATE OR LOCAL CORPORATION and arrest “Code Breakers”.Sources: Sapp v. Tallahassee, 348 So.2nd. 363Reiff v. City of Philla., 477 F.Supp. 1262Lynch v. NC Dept. of Justice, 376 S.E.2nd. 24729. Everything in the ‘United States is up For Sale: Bridges, Roads, Water, Schools, Hospitals, Prisons, Airports, “Federal Lands”, “State (estate) Lands” etc.Did anybody take time to check who recently bought Klamath Lake and the Arizona State Capital?Source: Executive Order 1280330. ‘WE THE PEOPLE’ are HUMAN CAPITAL – aka as “Goyim” to the rulers of the world.Source: Executive Order 13037The U.N. has financed the operations of the ‘United States Government for over 50 years and now ‘owns’ every man, woman, and child in America. The U.N. also holds all of the land of America in Fee Simple.Why is the above so difficult for most people to understand? Simple: words like ‘person’, ‘citizen’, ‘people’, ‘or’, ‘nation’, ‘is’, ‘fact’, ‘authority’, ‘truth’, ‘nation’, ‘crime’, ‘fraud’, ‘charge’, ‘right’, ‘statute’, ‘preferred’, ‘assume’, ‘prefer’, ‘constitutor’, ‘creditor’, ‘debtor’, ‘debit’, ‘discharge’, ‘payment’, ‘law’, ‘United States’, and hundreds of other words do NOT mean what you think they mean and you were never taught the ‘Legal Definitions’ so you would ‘Understand that you DON’T understand’.Don’t let this information alarm you because without it you cannot ever HOPE to be free.You have to understand that all slavery and freedom originates in the human mind. As the philospher Goethe wrote: “No man is more hopelessly enslaved than he who WRONGLY BELIEVES that he is free.”When your mind allows you to accept and understand that the United States, Great Brittan and the Vatican are Corporations which are nothing but fictional entities which have been placed in your mind, you will understand our slavery remains primarily because we believe in false fictions.The Illusion is MUCH larger than the irrefutable 30 points above, and the 30 points above are not even the tip of the tip of the iceberg. But it is, at least a starting point. For more information, see:www.atgpress.comwww.TheAmericanVoice.comhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=IRS+is+a+Fraudwww.ZeitgeistMovie.comwww.FreedomToFascism.comhttp://www.myspace. com/KC7AQKhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=911+Truth+Movementhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klwWcp9eiPw&feature=related For information regarding your data privacy, visit Acast.com/privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, we speak with Wendy Betts, Director of the EyeWitness to Atrocities project of the International Bar Association. With growing concerns about impunity for atrocities and other violations of international law in conflict and emergency settings around the world, EyeWitness helping to bring perpetrators of atrocities to justice. The mobile camera app tool can be used to capture verifiable photos or videos related to international atrocity crimes. The tool also captures the metadata needed to ensure that images can be used in investigations or trials, and securely stores the information, while the eyeWitness team works with users to reviews the evidence and connect to investigative or judicial mechanisms. So today on the podcast, we’ll speak with Wendy Betts about how tools like EyeWitness may be used to enhance accountability for international crimes, and promote the protection of civilians and aid workers. We’ll also discuss some of the particular sensitivities around engagement by humanitarian actions in the pursuit of accountability, and ways to mitigate the risk while promoting international humanitarian norms.

Building client Trust and Confidence A partner since 2007, Sarah Cave kicks off our conversation talking about digging in on tough problems, being highly organized, and listening to understand a client’s wants and concerns.  She then shares her three-pronged growth strategy: Show Up: be thoughtful about determining events and situations to participate in that allow you to meet potential clients and make connections with people who are good to know Put Up: keeps your skills toned and ready to assist clients and potential clients Shut Up: focus on listening, observing, and being keenly aware of the needs of your clients and their desired outcomes Sarah reflects on her positive experiences getting involved and showing up for events with both her local Bar and the International Bar Association.  She conveys a success story that came out of meeting a lawyer at an International Bar Association event.   She also talks about seeing clients as people and ensuring you’re aware of the goals of the person and not just the matter at hand. When asked what’s truly innovative in legal technology Sarah notes that strong communication and technical sophistication is expected by clients today.  That leveraging technology to effectively connect and respond to a client’s needs will enhance the trust and confidence a client has in you and your services. Sarah’s advice to those starting out, have a plan that’s flexible; take advantage of opportunities that present themselves.  Be informed, not just about the law but about business and industry so you can respond to your clients’ needs and requests.  Lastly, listening is critical in developing client trust and confidence. Hughes Hubbard & Reed, Partner, Sarah Cave leads a practice focused on complex securities litigation, professional liability, and bankruptcy litigation in federal, state trial and appellate courts across the country.  She’s worked on the largest financial crisis-related litigations of the past several years.  Sarah Cave Bio

The special guest in Episode 27 of the "Law & Business" podcast is John Eastwood, a partner at Eiger Law in Taipei.  John and Anthony discuss the issues that many American businesses have when they start production of their products in the Greater China Market. As a senior partner of Eiger’s Greater China Practice, John has headed up the firm’s intellectual-property and technology practice for the past several years, assisting clients with trademark, patent, copyright and trade-secret matters. In John’s role chairing the the European Chamber of Commerce Taiwan (ECCT) Intellectual Property Rights Committee for the past many years, he has worked closely with the European Commission, U.S. State Department, prominent academics and local government authorities on intellectual-property policy matters. John Eastwood, Partner, Eiger Law, Taipei Our first topic is about having a sourcing agent, distributor, or other local agent in China file a trademark application for the American business.  There are several pitfalls in having that local agent file a trademark application. Chances are the trademark application is badly drafted, only covering part of the product line or part of the scope of the planned-for business activities. John and his firm have seen filings that completely omitted key products and service activities because even a well-intentioned trading counterparty may not understand the business well. Local trading counterparts often don’t know how to respond to queries from the Taiwan IP Office (TIPO), meaning that they miss deadlines or don’t know that some of these TIPO queries can be easily enough resolved. This issue does not just happen in the the Greater China Market.  For example, Anthony discusses a case in which his firm represented a Germany company, whose local agent filed trademark application in his own name and was required to be a party in a trademark cancellation proceeding, despite not having worked for the company for several years. Another topic John and Anthony discussed was the failure to supervise the manufacturing company in the Greater China Market.  There is some truth to the notion that when a foreign company makes goods in China, that business is basically training its own future competitors. John and Anthony discuss how a business owner is able to make sure those issues do not begin.  After all, John's view is his firm has found that the pool of counterfeit manufacturers includes formerly authorized manufacturers, whose exact skills in making authorized products in the past make them able to make dangerously close counterfeits of products in the future. When a local manufacturing partner starts to realize that the American business is not paying attention, that’s when they start to evaluate their own rational self interest in the form of under-reporting, running extra lines of unauthorized product, inflating costs, or other such games. Typically, such situations continue onwards until finally a day of reckoning comes where the European brand owner terminates the local manufacturer, whereupon the local manufacturer speedily moves on to making straight-out counterfeits of the product.  John gives some tips on how to keep that manufacturing company in the Greater China Market happy.  Relationships still matter and having feet on the ground helps build those relationships. This was another fun episode to record.  It is chock full of excellent advice for any company trying to move outside of their home market and bring their manufacturing to the Greater China Market. Here is a lightly-edited transcript of the podcast episode: Anthony Verna: All right, and welcome to the Law and Business podcast where we continue our series here at the International Bar Association’s annual convention from beautiful Sydney, Australia. I'm here with John Eastwood. How you doing, John? John Eastwood: Hey, g’day. Anthony Verna: Wow. After we just had  an Australian solicitor on last time,