Redesigning law: from global guidance to action

Lucinda is a regulatory lawyer, research psychologist, and socio-legal academic. A solicitor of England and Wales since 2009, she has spent the past two decades advising professional bodies and regulators on ethical standards and policy development, while advising lawyers and law firms on ethics compliance and risk management.   Lucinda now works across research, teaching, and consulting, integrating law and the social sciences to address challenges impacting professional ethics and wellbeing in legal practice and the judiciary.   She is a doctoral researcher at Birkbeck Business School, and teaches at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London.   Alongside her academic research and teaching, she partners with professional bodies, regulators, and international institutions to develop evidence-based policies, standards and guidance, integrating legal policy principles with rigorous empirical research and evidence. She is also a regular speaker at academic and professional conferences.   Lucinda sits on several boards and committees in the UK and internationally, as a Trustee for LawCare, the mental health charity for the UK legal profession; Co-Chair for the International Bar Association (IBA) Professional Wellbeing Commission; Committee Member of the IBA Bar Issues Commission (BIC) Regulation Committee; and Co-Convenor for the Society of Legal Scholars’ Practice, Profession and Ethics section.

Dr. Babatunde Ajibade is the managing partner of S. P. A. Ajibade & Co, a leading corporate and commercial law firm with offices in Lagos, Ibadan and Abuja, Nigeria. He is a dispute resolution specialist and has substantial expertise in various aspects of commercial litigation and commercial arbitration. He has acted as counsel in both ad hoc and institutional arbitration proceedings and also sits as an arbitrator. He has acted as sole and co-arbitrator in proceedings conducted under the ICC Arbitration Rules, the LCIA Rules, and the UNCITRAL Rules. He is the Chair of the International Bar Association’s Section on Public and Professional Interest (IBA-SPPI) and was a Vice-President of the International Chamber of Commerce (“ICC”) Arbitration Commission’s Steering Committee until June 2024. He is a member of the ICC’s Africa Commission, a Director of ICC Nigeria, a Director of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce International Arbitration Centre (LACIAC), and a member of the Lagos Court of Arbitration (LCA). He was the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association for two consecutive terms ending in August 2024. Dr. Ajibade was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1989. He obtained an LLM degree in corporate and commercial law in 1990 and a PhD in private international law in 1996, both from King’s College London. He was elevated to the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria in December 2007. He was awarded the International Practice Fellowship of the International Bar Association in Madrid in October 2009 and became a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators UK in January 2015.