International Bar Association: Global Insight podcasts

• The Trump effect

  Radical changes in US policy under the presidency of Donald Trump, from foreign aid to global trade and beyond, are having a profound impact on the rest of the world. This Global Insight podcast explores the implications for the rule of law, international relations and global security. With: Mary O’Connell, Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law, Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame, Indiana Heela Rasool-Ayub, Director, Planetary Politics initiative, New America think tank Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurance S Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University, New Jersey Ken Murphy, Immediate Past Chair, IBA Bar Issues Commission; former Director General, Law Society of Ireland

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• Afghanistan: confronting gender apartheid

  Afghanistan: confronting gender apartheid The Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in 2021 after the sudden withdrawal of Western forces, implementing an interpretation of strict Sharia law that has especially affected women and girls. Since then, international relations have worsened. In early 2025, the ICC sought arrest warrants for Taliban leaders over gender-based persecution, prompting Afghanistan to withdraw from the court, condemning the action as baseless and politically motivated. Meanwhile, efforts are underway to bring a case to the International Court of Justice over alleged violations of a UN anti-discrimination treaty. A Taliban spokesperson has stated that the Taliban respect women’s rights in accordance with their interpretation of Islamic law and local customs. In this Global Insight podcast, our speakers consider the situation in Afghanistan, described by some as ‘gender apartheid’. With: Fawzia Amini, former Afghan Supreme Court judge, now in the UK Tamana Paryani, Afghan women’s rights activist based in Germany Richard Bennett, UN Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan

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• Climate finance

  The need for financial assistance for developing nations to address the effects of the climate crisis and to transition to low-carbon economies continues to grow. But the specifics on how much and how to implement this have been the subject of intense negotiation. At the 29th UN Climate Change Conference (COP29), what’s known as the New Collective Quantified Goal was agreed on after negotiators agreed to raise $300 billion a year in climate finance – triple the original $100 billion target – by 2035. However, this figure doesn’t account for inflation, and some feel it still falls short of what is needed to tackle the severity of the crisis.   Podcast speakers: David Waskow, Director of the International Climate Initiative at the World Resources Institute, Washington, DC Harjeet Singh, Global Engagement Director of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, New Delhi Emily Morison, Project Lawyer, IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit

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• Navigating AI regulation: EU focus

  The EU’s AI Act came into force in 2024 and will regulate Artificial Intelligence systems in the European Union based on which ‘risk category’ they fit into. Its provisions will mostly become applicable over the next two years. The Act is far from the only piece of legislation or agreement covering AI in the EU, with others including the updated Product Liability Directive, a proposed AI Liability Directive and the Council of Europe Framework on Artificial Intelligence. In this Global Insight podcast, we consider the significance of the developments with: Marc Rotenberg, President of the Center for AI and Digital Policy and Chair of the IBA’s AI Task Force Susie Alegre, human rights barrister and author on the impact of AI on human rights Ed Turtle, a senior lawyer on the Products Team at Cooley, focusing on tech and AI products; also an officer on the IBA Product Law and Advertising Committee

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• The climate crisis, human rights and the Klimaseniorinnen case

  In April 2024, a group of older Swiss women successfully argued before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) that the Swiss government was failing to take sufficient action on climate change, violating their human rights as a disproportionately affected group under the European Convention on Human Rights. However, the Swiss parliament rejected the judgment in Klimaseniorinnen v Switzerland, claiming the ECtHR had overstepped its legal boundaries and engaged in ‘inappropriate judicial activism’, a stance later supported by the Swiss Federal Council, the country’s highest executive authority. Switzerland has since presented a National Action Report on climate instead, which critics argue will not adequately implement the Court’s judgment. This podcast explores the impact and fallout of the case. With: Richard Harvey, Legal Counsel at Greenpeace UK Elizabeth Stern, claimant in KlimaSeniorinnen v Switzerland Professor Annalisa Savaresi, Centre for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law at the University of East Finland; University of Stirling, Scotland 

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