International Law Summits (ILS) delivers a series of fora and events promoting debate and knowledge-exchange on international law and its practice across the globe.
Welcoming a diverse range of stakeholder participants from government, legal practice, industry, diplomacy and academia, our events provide a platform for leading voices in the fields of international law and international relations to facilitate discussions that move beyond simplified and sensationalised media narratives, towards an informed and solutions-based dialogue.
Our year-round calendar of activities ranges from high-level roundtables, workshops and strategic fora to large-scale conferences and international summits. All events are either centered on a topical, emergent issue in global affairs or address common themes of sustained international interest, such as our long-running Annual Conference on Energy Arbitration and Dispute Resolution in the Middle East and Africa.
In all cases, ILS strives to ensure that all relevant stakeholders are adequately represented and prides itself on providing an opportunity for participants from around the world to actively contribute to the discourse surrounding important international legal, diplomatic, economic and political phenomena affecting them. When tackling complex legal issues, our events are also designed to ensure that discussions combine technical and theoretical knowledge with practical guidance, and succeed in placing cross-border legal matters within their broader geopolitical and economic contexts.
The range of issues we address is reflected in the diversity of our international audience, who are drawn from a multitude of professional backgrounds and geographical locations. ILS events are thus a uniquely valuable networking experience for those seeking to make connections across the global legal, diplomatic and academic communities.
To further its goal of promoting the exchange of international law-based expertise, ILS also works closely with a number of publishing houses in order to disseminate the proceedings of our events and share the insights of our expert contributors with interested readers worldwide.
Some of the many topics covered by previous and planned ILS events include:
- International Arbitration & Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Energy & Natural Resources Law
- Trade, Development & International Economic Law
- International Agricultural Law & Food Security
- Public-Private Partnerships
- The Practice of International Sanctions
- Climate Change Law
- International Humanitarian Law
- Sustainable Development & Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Recent Developments and Controversies in Diplomacy & Diplomatic Law
