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PURCHASE THE COMPLETE COLLECTION ON store.lexisnexis.co.uk boutique.lexisnexis.fr store.lexisnexis.ca/en Table of contents Sommaire Indice Table of contents I Sommaire I Indice I 2 President’s Editorial 3 Éditorial du Président 4 Editorial del Presidente 5 In Memoriam Luis Delgado De Molina 6 Message from the Editor-in- Chief 7 Message du rédacteur en chef 8 Mensaje del Redactor Jefe 9 UIA News I Actualités de l’UIA I Novedades de la UIA I 10 UIA 2020 Virtual Congress 11 La médiation internationale 14 Digital Presence: Now You See Me, Now You Don’t 17 Le 28e Forum mondial UIA des centres de médiation sera virtuel 21 Human Rights and Protection of Lawyers I Droits de l’Homme et de la Défense I Derechos Humanos y de la Defensa I 22 Les avocats du Barreau de Bordeaux créent un pôle destiné aux mineurs étrangers 23 Visages de la liberté : ils prennent le risque de défendre 24 Saudi Arabia Human Rights Defender, Waleed Abu Al-Khair 26 The Legal Profession I La Profession d’Avocat I La Abogacía I 28 How Notary Publics are Gatekeepers to Prevent Property Identity Theft 29 Cross-Cultural Lawyering and International Succession Law 32 Innovation in Legal Education: The Entrepreneurial Law Course 35 Legal Practice I Pratique du Droit I Ejercicio de la Abogacía I 38 Bancarrota de los consumidores: salida legal 39 How the European Union and the United States Differ Regarding Agricultural GMOs and NBTs 41 5 Things you Need to Know When Posting Employees to the Heart of Europe 45 Las empresas B 49 Les nouveaux régimes fiscaux incitatifs pour les expatriés HNWIs et retraités résidents en Italie 52 “Life Moves Pretty Fast”: a decade on from bitcoin, English law confronts cryptoassets 55 Website Accessibility Litigation 101 59 The “Cat-and-Mouse Game” with Tax Avoidance 63 Digital Natives and Analogue Adults: The Same Naive Approach to Technological Evolution and Data Protection 66 Health Science, Virtual and Augmented Reality, and Legal Frameworks: What is the Future? Part II 69 Africa and International Arbitration: New Developments 73 Plaidoyer visant à l’adoption rapide d’un acte uniforme OHADA sur la protection des données à caractère personnel 76 Bringing Together the World’s Lawyers I 2 ■ 2020 1 Actualités de l’UIA EditorialUIA News Novedades de la UIA President’s Editorial I Jerome ROTH On June 16, I sent a letter to all UIA members oppose discrimination, and to challenge do not start at home. The Rule of Law on behalf of myself and certain members of inequalities that have persisted for far too is constantly tested – in China, by laws our United States National Committee. In long. Those are UIA values. We stand that raise alarm bells in Hong Kong and it we recognized the traumatic events that for diversity and multiculturalism. We are by treatment of dissident lawyer and the had recently rocked the United States. The committed to exchanging information with Uighur population; in Turkey where the Actualités de l’UIA Covid crisis and related financial meltdown and learning from those from backgrounds government continues to prosecute lawyers ceded the headlines to the obscene killing of different from our own. We cherish for doing their jobs; in Poland, where a Black man by a Minnesota police officer. collegiality and dialogue. How can we the independence of the judiciary remains EditorialUIA News The video of the officer kneeling on the trumpet such principles but shy away from under assault. Covid exacerbated many man’s neck until he died shocked a nation. opposing injustice? of these tendencies, giving authorities an The incident gave rise to protests around excuse to clamp down on free speech, the the globe demanding action in response to I also struggled with UIA’s status as an right of assembly, and access to justice. Novedades de la UIA police killings of unarmed Black people and international organization. Issues raised by to systemic racial injustice. the death of George Floyd are, in many But how can we speak out against these ways, uniquely American. They grow from incursions if we do not face hard truths I have to admit, as the Association’s the particular history of the United States. I in our own societies? How can I, as an president during this tumultuous period, I feared that “globalizing” the racial question American, advocate for the Rule of Law if was torn in several ways. we face would diminish or even excuse it I do not fight for it in the United States? as a “universal” problem, part of the human How can UIA and IROL strive to safeguard First, I was concerned that addressing issues condition, rather than an American stain. the Rule of Law if we do not demand it raised by the killing might be deemed too And would the death of a Black man in of all nations, of all members of our own “political.” I have been criticized by some Minnesota be relevant to UIA members association, and of our profession? for veering into the “political” when I have around the world, to lawyers millions of addressed what I believe to be issues of miles away whose daily lives have nothing These questions also answer themselves. paramount importance to lawyers, such as to do with his death. I also wondered their response to increasing populism and if criticism of my own country to an Jerome C. ROTH nationalism. Yes, the protests had given rise international audience was disloyal in some UIA President to political debates throughout the United way – should the reckoning we need to [email protected] States pitting those who demand racial undertake remain with the US “family”? justice against those who emphasize “law and order”. Efforts to address our past dating My conversations with UIA colleagues gave back to slavery run up against those who me clarity on these concerns as well. insist we cannot “change” history. Does that tension, do those opposing viewpoints, mean The more I talked to our members, the that I, or that the UIA, should refrain from more I learnt about how the scourge of taking a position? Must lawyers, in their quest racism infects the entire world. While to remain above the political fray, remain globalism has brought peoples together, it neutral on an issue as fundamental as racial has also resulted in new and increased forms inequities, including in our legal system? of discrimination. Those who marched in protest on every continent decried racism in The question answered itself. Lawyers the United States and in their own countries. must engage in the moral issues of the To recognize that did not minimize the long day. To ignore them, to turn a blind eye road we in America must travel to live up to to inequalities, to overlook distortions in our ideals. It simply acknowledged that the the legal system, in the name of political world as a whole, and lawyers everywhere, neutrality, is not an option. Of course, have a responsibility to root out prejudice we cannot impose viewpoints on others. and inequality in our profession and our Each of us must chart our own course. communities. But it is our duty to stand with lawyers and communities of all ethnic and national Finally, I realized we cannot speak out backgrounds to demand fair treatment, to against violations of the Rule of Law if we Rassembler les avocats du monde I 2 ■ 2020 3 Editorial du Président I Jerome ROTH Le 16 juin, j’ai envoyé une lettre à tous les du système juridique, au nom de la neutralité Si le mondialisme a rapproché les peuples, membres de l’UIA en mon nom et au nom politique : ce n’est pas une option.