UN SDGs, AI, and the Future of Legal Professions: Fostering Equality and Access to Law
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20+
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4
Sessions
1H
Panel discussion
200+
Participants
Events Schedule
Agenda
10:00-10:15 CET | Opening Speech
Mr Tianze Zhang (China), Commitee Member at SCLA.
10:15-10:30 CET | Forging Equality for Access to Legal Services
Mr Joel Hakizimana (Burundi), General Secretary of the Centre for Research and Initiatives for Dialogue (CIRID).
10:30-10:45 CET | Keynote Speech: International Trade in Infrastructure of AI
Mr Xiaobing Tang (China), Former Senior Counsellor of the WTO.
10:45-11:00 CET | Keynote Speech by Official of the United Nations
Official from the United Nations (to be announced)
11:10-12:00 CET | Panel One: Leading the way to global equality in access to the law with AI
In 2015, the United Nations set 17 goals for global sustainable development, to comprehensively address the three areas of development: the social, the economic, and the environmental. These goals are to be met by 2030, as the world shifts to a sustainable development path.
Achieving these goals will require the concerted efforts of people all around the world. Currently, nearly 90% of people on Earth who live below the poverty line do not receive any meaningful help when faced with important civil legal issues. The reasons for this are many and intricate and make legal services some of the most expensive and hard-to-access services in the world. Today, advances in science and technology offer new solutions: AI allows clients to seek assistance in a self-help manner and allows lawyers to reach a wider range of clients
Moderator:
Mr Dominik Gałkowski (Poland), Managing Partner at Kubas Kos Gałkowski.
Panelists:
Mr Aureliano Gonzalez-Baz (Mexico), Managing Partner at Bryan.
Ms Olga Tsiptse (Greece), LL.M., Lawyer Accredited to the Supreme Court of Greece and Mediator, Arbitrator Accredited by the Ministry of Justice of Greece, and GDPR Data Protection Officer at the Deutsche Schule Thessaloniki.
Ms Alessandra Nascimento S. F. Mourão (Brazil), Founding Partner at Nascimento e Mourão – Sociedade de Advogados.
Mr Ebrahim Lakhi (Barbados), Executive Committee Member at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Caribbean Branch.
Mr Paweł Sikora (Poland), Warsaw Office Managing Partner at Kubas Kos Gałkowski.
Dr Xiangxia Li (China), Partner at Kangda Law Firm.
12:00-13:00 CET | Panel Two: AI as a Double-edged Sword: Risks to the SDGs posed by the use of AI
Some researchers have suggested that although AI could help achieve 134 of the UN’s 169 sustainable development sub-goals it could also hinder the achievement of 59 of them. For example, using AI can increase productivity. But it can also lead to a reduction in jobs, which could trigger mass unemployment, particularly among highly educated and white-collar professionals, thus disrupting labor markets and increasing social inequality. Changes are likely to be more pronounced in industries prone to automation, including the legal profession. In addition, those legal professionals in developed countries and developed regions, with access to greater skills and resources, may stand to benefit more from automation, which may exacerbate inequality at the global level, both nationally and internationally.
Moderator:
Mr Peter Ruggle (Switzerland), Geneva International Dispute Resolution Institute and Ruggle Partner.
Panelists:
Ms Courtney Chicvak, J.D. (USA), lecturer at Columbia University School of Professional Studies and CEO and Conflict Resolution Specialist at Courtney Anne Chicvak Mediation LLC.
Mr Matt Mortazavi (Canada), principal at Mortazavi Construction Consulting Inc.
Ms Yücel Yonca Fatma (Turkey), lecturer at İstanbul Gedik University Faculty of Law.
Mr Guillem Martínez Roura (Spain), Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Programme Officer at the United Nations’ International Telecommunication Union (ITU-UN).
13:00-15:00 CET | Lunch Break
15:00-15:20 CET | Keynote Speech: The resurgence of AI for Business and Society in 2023: Opportunity or Crisis?
Mr Kumardev Chatterjee (Belgium), Entrepreneurship Expert at the World Economic Forum.
15:20-15:40 CET | Keynote Speech: Equality
Mr Godson Ugochukwu, SAN (Nigeria), Founder and Managing Partner of Fortress Solicitors.
15:40-16:40 CET | Panel Three: Using AI to Catalyse legal innovation: Reshaping practices, driving efficiency and shaping a new future for legal services.
AI has the potential to fundamentally reshape how the law is practised. It is changing the legal industry in several important ways. In contract analysis, language-processing software can compensate for when the skills to interpret a contract are lacking. It also greatly improves the efficiency of managing a large number of contracts.
For litigations, AI-built machine learning models can predict the outcome of pending cases, speed up the strategy planning of court processes and settlement negotiations. They can also provide assistance in reducing the number of cases going to trial. Meanwhile, AI-driven data evaluation will prove to be a useful tool in the field of litigation financing. Regarding legal research, a number of innovative companies have used advances in natural-language-processing technology to develop new platforms that go beyond keyword matching and can understand the relevant legal provisions and the differences between cases. This AI legal research technology is already widely recognised on the legal-industry market.
Moderator:
Dr Hermann Knott (Germany), Partner at KUNZ Law.
Dr Ewelina Mitrega, Deputy of the Data Protection Officer at Deloitte AG.
Mr Alessandro Liotta (United Kingdom), Lead Compliance Counsel, Google
Mr Jiazhi Jiang (China), Product Director, Chatek LLC
16:40-17:40 CET | Draft Committee
Mr Bernardo Cartoni (Italy), Arbitrator at Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre.
Mr Peter Ruggle (Switzerland), owner of Ruggle Partner.
Mr Dominik Gałkowski (Poland), Managing Partner at Kubas Kos Gałkowski.
Ms Courtney Chicvak, J.D. (USA), lecturer at Columbia University School of Professional Studies and CEO and Conflict Resolution Specialist at Courtney Anne Chicvak Mediation LLC.
17:40 CET-17:50 CET | Introduction of GIDI
Mr Peter Ruggle (Switzerland), Geneva International Dispute Resolution Institute and owner of Ruggle Partner.
17:50 – 18:00 CET | Introduction of YBW
Mr Dawid Wiktor (Estonia), CEO at Media Scope Group and Country Manager at Swiss Chinese Law Association
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