Attendance at the dinner for the 21^st ASCOLA conference on Thursday 2^nd July.

Our traditional Conference Dinner will take place on Thursday evening in the homely and distinctly British setting of Goodenough College.

The night will begin with pre-dinner drinks, followed by a seated dinner. We’ll then conclude the evening with music and dancing, an ideal chance to unwind and celebrate after a busy day of panels.

AI is weaving its way into decision-making and organisational processes across sectors and legal domains. To advise on compliance and to litigate around AI and machine learning, legal professionals need the foundational technical knowledge to ask the right questions and translate the answers to uncertain and emerging legal regimes.

This 16-hour course offers a practical, legally-focused primer in the technologies around AI, cutting deep into the relevant details, drawing on bleeding-edge research and slicing through noise, ideology and hype. We will use law to illuminate the technology and technology to illuminate the law, considering areas including data protection, emerging AI legislation, copyright and platform regulation. We will identify uncertainties in both law and technology, characterise them and show you how to bridge and work with them.

Course Dates
Monday 1st June - Thursday 4th June 2026 from 09:00 - 13:30 each day.

Click to see the course website for full information about the learning outcomes

Early bird rates are available until Sunday 30 November 2025. 

Course overview

What does it take to mediate complex disputes effectively? How can lawyers, parties, and mediators navigate processes marked by multiple parties, high stakes, or intricate subject‑matter? And what indicators signal that a dispute may be particularly challenging to mediate?

This intensive masterclass—led by internationally recognised mediators, practitioners and academics—delves deeply into these questions.

With mediation increasingly central to resolving sophisticated national and international disputes, including high‑profile commercial conflicts and the growing use of mediation in investor–state matters, there is a pressing need for advanced skills and strategic insight. This masterclass equips participants with the tools to meet that need.

Drawing on recent policy and legislative developments around the world, and grounded in real‑world experience, this course provides practical, actionable guidance to help you perform confidently and effectively in this rapidly evolving and strategically important field of dispute resolution.

Key details

Course type: Executive Education
Location: Bentham House, UCL Laws, London
Dates: 22 June 2026 
Duration: 2 - 6pm, followed by a networking reception
Fees: £439 to £740 (early bird rates are available until 22nd May)

Read more about this course at: 
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/short-courses/executive-education/mediation

The Executive Education programme offers an in-depth exploration of the principles and practices that underpin reinsurance transactions in today's marketplace. As risk transfers into the global reinsurance markets, capital markets are essential to the insurability of many risks. 

This programme focuses on both traditional and cutting-edge reinsurance and risk transfer structures designed to address modern challenges such as climate risks, cyber risks, and catastrophic events. Participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of how reinsurance contracts are termed, formed, structured, and governed, with special attention given to the interaction between underlying insurance contract and the reinsurance contract and how this relationship impacts on the reinsurance terms and claims. The course will examine the structure and regulation of insurance-linked securities which are a means of risk transfer to, and of financing insurance risk in, the capital markets.  

This 16-hour course is taught over 2 days on 22 & 23 June 2026

See the course website for full information about the learning outcomes:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/short-courses/executive-education/reinsurance-law

Early booking rates available until 31 December 2025