November 2025 – May 2026
The months from November 2025 through May 2026 were an active period for LKDR, with Meg and Lucinda participating in a wide range of conferences, lectures, professional programs, and institutional activities across the United States, Europe, Latin America, and beyond. Their recent engagements reflected LKDR’s continued involvement in investment arbitration, public international law, sanctions, anti-corruption and integrity, artificial intelligence, commercial disputes, and the rule of law.
Meg began this period in London, where she delivered the Freshfields Lecture on November 12, 2025. Her keynote lecture, titled “The Legacy of NAFTA Chapter 11,” examined the lasting influence of NAFTA on investment treaty drafting and investor–state dispute settlement practice. In March 2026, the lecture received the GAR Award for Best Speech or Lecture of 2025.
Lucinda also participated in several programs in late 2025. On November 7, she spoke at the CAM-AMCHAM VIII Arbitration Congress in São Paulo, Brazil, on “Arbitration and Corporate Reputation,” joining Debora Visconte, Carlos Pires, Gustavo Cesar Mazutti, and Fernand Julio Platero for a discussion on the intersection of arbitration, corporate conduct, and reputational risk.
Later that month, on November 21, Lucinda participated in Dublin International Arbitration Day in Dublin, Ireland, as a panel member on “Key Global Developments in International Arbitration,” together with Paul McGarry SC, Genevieve Poirier, Laurence Shore, and Kathleen Paisley.
In December, Lucinda participated in a Hard Talk program in Miami, Florida, on “Corruption in Arbitration: Tackling Fraud and Bribery in Latin America’s Commercial Landscape,” alongside Erica Franzetti, Gracy Zapata, Javier Robalino Orellana, and Laura Cozar.
The beginning of 2026 brought further activity in both arbitration and public international law. On January 9, Lucinda joined the Arbitration and Crime Workshop in Basel, Switzerland, for a panel on “Recent ICC Reports,” together with Helene van Lith, Nikos Asimakopoulos, Aloysius Llamzon, and Stephane Bonifassi.
In February, Meg spoke in a webinar hosted by AfricArb and the Académie Africaine de Pratique du Droit International on “Lessons from NAFTA Chapter 11 for the Investment Protocol of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement.” The presentation drew on Meg’s extensive experience with NAFTA Chapter 11 and considered its relevance for the development of investment protection under the African Continental Free Trade Agreement framework.
Also in February, Lucinda presented on “Artificial Intelligence, International Law, and America’s Artificial Intelligence Action Plan” before the U.S. State Department Advisory Committee on International Law, together with Kristina Daugirdas and Will Hudson. Later that month, she joined the Georgetown International Arbitration Society in Washington, D.C., for a panel on “ICSID Contract Arbitration,” with Govert Coppens and Jennifer Haworth-McCandless.
March was a particularly active month for LKDR. On March 17, Meg and Lucinda jointly delivered the Storey Lecture, “The Rule of Law in a Changing Global Order,” hosted by Tulane University Faculty of Law and ITA. The lecture, ably moderated by Frederic Sourgens, addressed the continuing importance of the rule of law in a rapidly changing international legal and geopolitical environment.
Lucinda was privileged to be selected as the 2025-2026 Dedicatee of the Delos Remote Oral Advocacy Programme (ROAP) Americas. She served as a judge for the final rounds on March 19, 2026, alongside Gonzalo Flores and Katherine Gonzalez Arrocha. To launch the Programme for 2025-2026, she also engaged in a fireside chat with Heather Clark and Minwoo Kim, the ROAP Americas co-Convenors, on December 9, 2025.
On March 24, Lucinda spoke at the Global Anti-Corruption Forum (GACIF) at the OECD in Paris, France, on “Integrity as Advantage: How Multinationals Can Drive Performance Across Fragmented Industry Standards,” together with Amy Selzer, Nicola Bonucci, Raymond Bondi, and Frank Brown.
During Paris Arbitration Week, Lucinda joined Prof. Régis Bismuth, Julie Bastien, and Laure-Hélène Gaicio-Fievez on March 27, for a panel on “When Awards Meet Sanctions—Recognition and Enforcement Under Pressure,” addressing the challenges that sanctions regimes can pose for the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards. On the same day, Meg joined a panel addressing “State Measures and Investor Rights in a Changing Geopolitical Landscape” at Paris Arbitration Week.
At the ASIL Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. in April, both Meg and Lucinda participated in discussions on issues central to international law and dispute resolution. Meg joined a panel on “The Composition of International Courts and Tribunals: Who Decides and Why Does It Matter?”, while Lucinda spoke on “Sanctions and the Rule of Law: An Impossible Balance?” together with Ali Al-Karim, Michael Burton, Weijia Rao, and Peter Harrell.
Meg’s institutional activities also continued during this period. She was appointed to the Panels of Arbitrators and Mediators of the International Arbitration Centre (IAC), effective May 12, 2026, and to the Panel of Arbitrators of the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration for the term March 21, 2026 through February 20, 2030. She was also appointed as a Member of the IFILA Board, beginning in April 2026.