The Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA) or International Association of Lawyers is an

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, created in 1927, that brings together more than 2,200 legal professionals from all over the world.

Historical Context

At the end of the 19th century, most European lawyers worked within autonomous and independent bar associations, each with their own customs. However, after World War I
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European lawyers gradually realized the importance of helping certain bar associations modernise and build international contacts In July 1925, lawyers from Belgium, France and Luxembourg initiated the "Union Internationale des Avocats" project, which came to fruition after two years of collaboration on July 8, 1927, in Charleroi,

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The President of the Paris Bar Association, Georges Guillaumin, was nominated as the Association’s first president. Once the UIA was formed, several bar associations sought its membership. After joining the Association, each new bar contributed unique efforts towards the UIA's dual objectives: adapting older bars to the new economic and international climate, and working with the

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for the establishment of lasting peace.

Objectives

Today, the UIA defends the legal profession and encourages international networking, cooperation and understanding among lawyers with due regard to their cultural and professional diversity Two objectives underlie the UIA's activities: * Promote the essential principles of the legal profession and of the development of the legal field in all legal areas of specialisation at the international level. * Contribute to the professional enrichment of its members via informational exchanges enabled by UIA commissions and working groups.

Missions

Today, the UIA is an association open to all lawyers from around the world, general or specialized, and brings together several thousand members and 200 bar associations, federations, and associations from 110 countries. Multilingual and multicultural, the UIA is the only major international lawyers organisation to have eight

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(French, English, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Arabic, and Chinese) and to work in three working languages: French, English, and Spanish. Moreover, the UIA has built more than 43 commissions composed of lawyers from jurisdictions spanning the globe. These lawyers practice in law firms, businesses, or public institutions. Each commission monitors the evolution occurring in a particular legal field (or practice) and determines how these changes will affect or be affected by other legal fields. All UIA commissions collaborate to keep each other informed of their respective developments and findings. The UIA's commissions and working groups are divided into two principal fields: '' Business Law'' and ''General Practice and

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Business Law

The UIA commissions and working groups in business law focus on competition law, contracts, bankruptcy, corporate law, labour,

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, tax, banking, mergers and acquisitions, mediation, the international sale of goods, and foreign investments, among many other practice areas. The UIA collaborates with the

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(UNCITRAL) and notably presented a proposition for the definition of a "center of principal interests" (articles 2b) and 16-3 of the UNCITRAL law on international insolvency. Every year, the UIA organises numerous seminars on international subjects. The UIA's events allow participants to meet colleagues, establish professional contacts and to debate questions about current events and controversial legal topics. For its annual congress, the UIA creates working sessions for its commissions. These commissions produce reports accessible to all UIA members and organise congressional joint-sessions. Each year, one or more principal themes are established for the Congress, inciting national and international legal and economic experts to engage in fruitful debate.

Protection of lawyers and Human Rights

The UIA intervenes throughout the world in favour of lawyers who are imprisoned or persecuted for practising their profession. Since 1971, the UIA has benefited from its special

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in the

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and the European Council. Through the European Council, the UIA produced a policy recommendation concerning money laundering and the

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. The UIA is represented in the three main offices of the United Nations (New York, Geneva, and Vienna), where the UIA organises a summit for international bar association presidents. These summits permit bar association presidents to further the work initiated by the UN in diverse domains of international law. Additionally, the UIA sits at the heart of the Consultative Councils of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Finally, the UIA has followed the work of the preparatory commission of the

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since its creation in 1998. The UIA also attends sessions of the

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to the Statute of the Court. The UIA is a member of the executive council of the

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Members

* Individuals: Practising lawyers (general practitioners and specialists) * Collective:

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* Associated individuals: Law professors, judges and other legal professionals

Presidency

The term of each UIA presidency is one year. Past Presidents: * 1930-1931: ,

* 1932-1933: ,

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* 1936-1937: ,

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* 1960-1962:

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Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

* 1964-1965: ,

* 1969-1971: , France * 1971-1973: ,

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* 1979-1981: Harold H. Healy, Jr.,

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* 1981-1983: ,

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* 1987-1988: , Sweden * 1994-1995: Garry Downes Q.C., Australia * 1996-1997: Kottayan Katankot Venugopal,

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

* 2000-2001 : Miguel I. Estrada Samano,

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

* 2005-2006: Delos N.Lutton, * 2006-2007: Paulo Lins E Silva, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, * 2007-2008: Héctor Díaz-Bastien,

* 2013-2014: Stephen L. Dreyfuss, recipient of the

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, received on May 30, 2014,

* 2014-2015: M. Miguel Loinaz,

Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...

* 2015-2016: Jean-Jacques Uettwiller,

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...

* 2016-2017: Laurence Bory, Switzerland * 2017-2018: Pedro Pais de Almeida,

*2018-2019: Issouf Baadhio,

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*2019-2020: Jerome Roth,

*2020-2021: Jorge Martí Moreno,

*2021-2022: Hervé Chemouli,

Annual Congress

Since its creation, the UIA has organised annual congresses in locations all over the world for members and non-members to discuss legal topics in an international forum. According to UIA Statutes, the organisation must convene a Congress at least once every two years. Between 1929 and 1938, UIA congresses were mainly annual. The 1939 Congress, which was scheduled to take place in

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on the eve of the

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, did eventually not take place: * 1929 - I Congress:

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

, Belgium * 1930 - II Congress:

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, France * 1931 - III Congress:

, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg * 1932 - IV Congress:

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, Netherlands * 1933 - V Congress:

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, Croatia * 1935 - VI Congress:

, Belgium * 1936 - VII Congress:

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, Austria * 1937 - VIII Congress:

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, Austria * 1938 - IX Congress:

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

, Hungary The congressional process resumed in 1948, and a Congress was held annually until 1954 (except in 1952) : * 1948 - X Congress:

, Belgium * 1949 - XI Congress:

, France * 1950 - XII Congress

, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg * 1951 - XIII Congress:

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a ...

, Brazil * 1953 - XIV Congress:

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, Austria From 1954 to 1989, a Congress was held every two years : * 1954 - XV Congress:

, Belgium * 1956 - XVI Congress:

, France * 1958 - XVII Congress:

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

, Italy * 1960 - XVIII Congress:

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, Switzerland - The European Bar Council (CCBE) was created during this Congress * 1962 - XIX Congress: Lisbon, Portugal * 1964 - XX Congress:

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, Federal Republic of Germany * 1965 - XXI Congress:

Arnhem Arnhem ( or ; german: Arnheim; South Guelderish: ''Èrnem'') is a city and municipality situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands about 55 km south east of Utrecht. It is the capital of the province of Gelderland, located on both ban ...

, Netherlands (exceptionally held the following year) * 1967 - XXII Congress:

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, Austria * 1969 - XXIII Congress:

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, United Kingdom * 1971 - XXIV Congress:

, France * 1973 - XXV Congress:

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, Spain

* 1975 - XXVI Congress:

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...

, Federal Republic of Germany * 1977 - XXVII Congress:

Zagreb Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and Slov ...

, Croatia * 1979 - XXVIII Congress:

Cannes Cannes ( , , ; oc, Canas) is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a commune located in the Alpes-Maritimes department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. T ...

, France * 1981 - XXIX Congress:

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, United States * 1983 - XXX Congress:

, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg * 1985 - XXXI Congress:

, Netherlands * 1987 - XXXII Congress:

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, Canada * 1989 - XXXIII Congress:

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, Switzerland As of 1989, the Congress has once again become an annual event : * 1990 - XXXIV Congress: Strasbourg, France * 1991 - XXXV Congress:

Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital city, capital and primate city, largest city of Mexico, and the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North Amer ...

, Mexico * 1992 - XXXVI Congress:

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...

, Germany * 1993 - XXXVII Congress:

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

, United States * 1994 - XXXVIII Congress: Marrakech, Morocco * 1995 - XXXIX Congress:

, England * 1996 - XXXX Congress:

, Spain * 1997 - XLI Congress:

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, United States * 1998 - XLII Congress:

Nice Nice ( , ; Niçard dialect, Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department in France. The Nice urban unit, agg ...

, France * 1999 - XLIII Congress:

New Delhi New Delhi (, , ''Naī Dillī'') is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Parliament Ho ...

, India * 2000 - XLIV Congress:

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...

, Argentina * 2001 - XLV Congress:

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The ...

, Italy * 2002 - XLVI Congress: Sydney, Australia * 2003 - XLVII Congress: Lisbon, Portugal * 2004 - XLVIII Congress:

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, Switzerland * 2005 - XLIX Congress:

Fes Fez or Fes (; ar, فاس, fās; zgh, ⴼⵉⵣⴰⵣ, fizaz; french: Fès) is a city in northern inland Morocco and the capital of the Fès-Meknès administrative region. It is the second largest city in Morocco, with a population of 1.11 mi ...

, Morocco * 2006 - L Congress: Salvador, Brazil * 2007 - LI Congress:

, France *2008 - LII Congress: Bucarest, Romania * 2009 - LIII Congress:

Seville Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...

, Spain * 2010 - LIV Congress:

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, Turkey * 2011 - LV Congress:

Miami Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a coastal metropolis and the county seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida, United States. With a population of 442,241 at ...

, United States * 2012 - LVI Congress:

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...

, Germany * 2013 - LVII Congress:

Macao Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a po ...

(SAR), People's Republic of China *2014 - LVIII Congress:

Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany Regions of Italy, region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilan ...

, Italy * 2015 - LIX Congress:

Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area al ...

, Spain * 2016 - LX Congress:

, Hungary * 2017 - LXI Congress:

Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anch ...

, Canada *2018 - LXII Congress:

Porto Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropol ...

, Portugal *2019 - LXIII Congress:

Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...

, under the High Patronage of His Royal Highness Grand Duke *2020 - LXIV Congress: Virtual Congress. *2021 - LXV Congress:

, Hybrid Congress under the Honorary Presidency of His Majesty the King Felipe VI, presential in Madrid or Virtual.

Resolutions and Charters

* Resolution on the situation in Poland (Luxembourg Congress, Luxembourg - November 2019) *Core Principles of the Legal Profession (Congress in Porto, Portugal - October 2018) *Resolution Against All Forms of Slavery (Congress in Porto, Portugal - October 2018) *Basic Principles on the Status of Refugees (Congress in Budapest, Hungary - October 2016) * Resolution on Privacy in Digital Communication (Congress in Valencia, Spain - October 2015) * Corruption, Transparency and Justice Resolution (Congress in Macau, China 2013) * Resolution on Globalisation, Tolerance and the Law (Congress in Seville, Spain 2009) * Resolution for the

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as a basic human right.(Congress in Fes, Morocco August 31 - September 5, 2005) * Resolution advocating for the abolishment of the death penalty (Congress in Lisbon, Portugal - September 30, 2003) * Code of Conduct for Lawyers in the 21st Century that takes into account rapid changes in technology and the forces of globalization (Congress in Sydney, Australia October 27–31, 2002) * Principles for lawyers establishing a firm outside of their country, adopted and presented to the

World Trade Organization The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that regulates and facilitates international trade. With effective cooperation in the United Nations System, governments use the organization to establish, revise, and ...

(Congress in Sydeny, Australia - October 27–31, 2002) * Resolution on Multidisciplinary Practices aiming to preserve the core values of the legal profession (Congress in New Delhi, India - November 3, 1999)

UIA Publications

* Enjeux européens et mondiaux de la protection des données personnelles, Editions Larcier, June 2015 * Le DIP au quotidien / IPR in het Dagelijkse Leven, Editions Larcier, November 2015 * Current trends in Start-Ups and Crowd Financing, Ed. Thomas Kulnigg, UIA - LexisNexis Publications Collection, December 2017 * Compliance – Challenges and Opportunities for the Legal Profession, Ed. Guido de Clerq, UIA - LexisNexis Publications Collection, December 2017 * Le statut des femmes et l'état de droit, Editions Larcier, July 2018 * Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments and Arbitral Awards, UIA - LexisNexis Publications Collection, October 2018 * Natural Resources Exploitation: Business and Human Rights, UIA - LexisNexis Publications Collection, October 2018 *Legal Aspects of Artificial Intelligence, UIA - LexisNexis Publications Collection, November 2019 *Drafting Effective International Contracts of Agency and Distributorship – A practical Handbook, UIA - LexisNexis Publications Collection, November 2019 *International Public Procurement, UIA - LexisNexis Publications Collection, November 2019 *Family Law: Challenges and Developments from an International Perspective, UIA - LexisNexis Publications Collection, June 2020 *Environmental Law and Sustainable Development, UIA - LexisNexis Publications Collection, September 2020 *Fashion law : Legal trends and new challenges, UIA - LexisNexis Publications Collection, October 2020

Juriste International Magazine

''Juriste International''
is the trilingual magazine (English, French, Spanish) of the UIA. Published four times a year, it has a circulation of 3000 copies. It presents articles by authors - members or not members of the association - on national and international legal hot topics. Editor-in-Chief: Barbara Gislason, Minnesota, United States.

UIA Awards

UIA also rewards legal professionals for their scientific work, their professionalism, their involvement in the defence of the rule of law or for the innovative aspect of their professional practice.

Monique Raynaud-Contamine Award

The Monique Raynaud-Contamine Award has been awarded from 1999 to 2018 for the best written reports submitted at the association's annual congresses. * 1999 : Nelson LANDRY, Canada : ''Les techniques biométriques d'indentification'' * 2000 : Augusto LOPES-CARDOSO, Portugal : ''Dimension juridique de l'Intervention génétique'' * 2001 : Sandra BERBUTO & Christine PEVEE, Belgium : ''La protection pénale des mineurs en droit belge'' Carlo MASTELLONE, Italy : ''Sales-related issues not covered by the CISG: assignment, set-off, statute of limitation, etc., under Italian law'' * 2002 : W. Carter YOUNGER, USA : ''Employee privacy, electronic communications and workplace monitoring'' * 2003 : Sascha R. GROSJEAN, Germany : ''Protecting trade secrets and commercial information – Rights of employers and employees'' (Young Lawyer Award) Stefano DINDO, Italy : ''How to negotiate a cross-border business deal'' * 2004 : Francesca PIZZI, Italy : ''Economic analysis of personality rights concerning media activities'' (Young Lawyer Award) Jorge MARTI MORENO, Spain : ''Migration of companies within the World Trade Organization, European Union and worldwide'' * 2005 : Rosario LEON, Spain : ''Los principios de precaución y desarrollo sostenible en España'' (Young Lawyer Award) Peter TURNER, UK : ''Ethics in International Arbitration'' * 2006 : Felipe ZANCHET MAGALHAES, Brazil : ''Commercial representation or agency contract : legal implications'' (Young Lawyer Award) James MOORE, USA : ''Economic globalization and its impact upon the legal profession'' Luis ZARRALUQUI, Spain : ''El arbitraje en Derecho de Familia en general y en España en particular – La problemática de los procesos en los procesos arbítrales'' * 2007 : Raquel AZEVEDO, Portugal : ''Corporate governance on non-listed companies - Special features in connection with family-run companies'' (Young Lawyer Award) Howard H. SPIEGLER, USA : ''Restitution of nazi-looted art: view from the United States'' * 2008 : Gavin LLEWELLYN, UK : ''The protection of tri-dimensional trade marks: the UK perspective'' (Young Lawyer Award) Judith GIBSON, Australia: ''Detention after sentence'' * 2009 : Cristina COJOCARU, Romania : ''Legal uncertainty in Family Law'' (Young Lawyer Award) Carolina PINA, Spain : ''Copyright in the digital age: from dadaism to mash-up'' * 2010 : Makato SHIMADA, Japan : ''Protection of cultural properties in Japan'' * 2011 : Judith GIBSON, Australia : ''Turning a good newsroom bad: white collar crime, tort and case management issues arising from the UK phone hacking scandal'' * 2012 : Christina PHILLIPS, USA : ''Litigation arising out of natural disasters: a policy examination from the United States'' (Young Lawyer Award) Francis GERVAIS, Canada : ''Qui est le client ?'' * 2013 : Motoyasu HIROSE, Japan : ''Asset prevention Japanese prevention'' (Young Lawyer Award) Francisco RAMOS ROMEU, Spain : ''El embargo internacional de créditos en la UE'' * 2014 : Jean-François HENROTTE, Belgium : ''Application territoriale de la législation européenne en matière de protection des données : vaincre la peur de l’autre'' * 2015 : Iñigo GUTIERREZ VELASCO, Spain : ''Derecho concursal y derecho laboral. El despido colectivo en empresas en crisis: ¿Cierre de empresa o centro de trabajo en el ámbito europeo?'' (Young Lawyer Award) Janice MULLIGAN, USA : ''How would you like your Pacemaker to be hacked? Healthcare cyber vulnerability: a risk management nightmare for the 21st century'' Maria CRONIN, UK (Special Mention – Young Lawyer) * 2016 : Ingrid BOURBONNAIS JACQUARD, France : ''Les actions directoires contre les assureurs – Le droit d’action directe contre le P&I Club, conception française'' (Young Lawyer Award) Ian DE FREITAS, UK : ''Towards an international regulatory approach for mass surveillance and profiling – Striking the balance between national security and privacy'' Barbara BANDIERA, Italy (Special Mention) * 2017 : Barbara BANDIERA, Italy : ''Radiography of a project financing for the Implementation of a wind Farm New EU legislative Framework for markets in Financial instruments'' * 2018 : Barbara GISLASON, USA : ''What do the Applications of Gene Editing, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Brings To The Fields of Life Science, Medical Supply, Food Supply and Environmental Impact?''

Jacques Leroy Prize

From 2010 to 2017, Jacques Leroy Prize was awarded to a law student who, by his or her written submission, promoted the recognition of human rights in the business world. * ''2010 : Angela STONIER, Australia'' * ''2011 : Josephine WONG, Canada'' * ''2012 : Somda MANGLOIRE, Burkina Faso'' * ''2013 : Joel FOX, Israël'' * ''2014 : Adja CEVC, Slovenia'' * ''2015 : Jonathas LIMA, Brazil'' * ''2016 : Serge Théophile BAMBARA, Burkina Faso'' * ''2017 : Matheus RICCI PORTELLA, Brazil''

Rule of Law Award

Since 2016, UIA, in partnership with LexisNexis, acknowledges and publicises individuals and/or organisations for their commitment and actions to the development and promotion of the Rule of Law. * 2016 : Malaysian Bar Association, Malaysia * 2017 : Saidbek NURITDINOV, President of the Union of Advocates of the Republic of Tajikistan, Tadjikistan * 2018 : The Honorable Ruth BADER GINSBURG, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court * 2019 : Bertrand FAVREAU, President of IDHAE, France * 2020 : ELIL, European Lawyers in Lesvos, Greece * 2021 : Latifa SHARIFI, Afghanistan

LegalTech Inspiration Award

In 2021, UIA and LexisNexis launched the LegalTech Inspiration Award in order to encourage innovation in the legal field and reward the organizations or individuals that bring new ideas to the legal world which change lawyers’ outlook, practice or working methods. * 2021 : Thomas SEEBER, Realest8, Austria

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