Three days among the people who steer the law.
The leaders, reformers, and pioneers rewriting what the law can do, brought together to take up the questions their systems face, not to sit through them.
Three days here. Twelve months of momentum in your system.
Help frame the questions the field spends the next year answering. You leave having shaped the debate, not just witnessed it.
A clear read on AI, regulation, and the forces remaking how law and policy get made, in time to act on them, not react to them.
Chief justices, general counsel, regulators, and the technologists remaking the field, as equals. Access you won't find anywhere else.
Every seat is a decision.
Those who steer legal systems, the specialists who inform them, and the generation who will inherit the work. No delegate is here by default.
- Chief Justices and senior judges
- General Counsel
- Regulators and policy architects
- Heads of the profession
- Legal scholars and deans
- Multilateral representatives
- Decision-science practitioners
- Technologists in justice
- Rising advocates and reformers
- Legal innovators
- Researchers
- Fellows of the Institute
Names that need no introduction.
Each Summit is anchored by figures who shape how law and technology meet. The 2027 line-up will be announced in the coming months.
You cannot fix the law with the format that failed it.
Einstein's warning was that problems are never solved by the thinking that made them. The profession has spent decades applying the old format, the keynote, the passive panel, the half-watching audience, to questions that format was never built to answer. The result is a field that meets constantly and moves rarely.
Mandé starts from a sharper premise: who is in the discussion matters as much as what is on the agenda, and the most senior people in a field are wasted on each other when they are asked to observe rather than engage. So the Summit is built the other way around. Every session has to produce something. A position taken. A disagreement aired in the open. A question the field has been avoiding, finally answered.
The right people, asked to decide.
Four ways to force the question.
No format here lets anyone coast. Each one asks serious people to take a position and hold it under pressure.
The defining question of the profession's next decade, argued by real advocates on each side, with a floor asked to say where it stands.
The most consequential ideas from inside and outside the profession, spanning technology, governance, and the design of institutions themselves.
A structured exchange among judges, general counsel, and regulators on jurisdictional complexity and the real limits of cooperation, held under the Mandé Rule, unattributed.
No fixed script. The question is posed, and the floor decides where it goes. Moderated, not steered.
Nobody remembers the panel. They remember the conversation after it.
We build experiential convenings where the people present are not treated as transactional, but as guests on a journey worth taking. The work happens on stage. The relationships happen everywhere else.
Three days of formal sessions, framed by experiences most gatherings never attempt: world-class golf at Apes Hill and Sandy Lane, dinners at the finest tables in Barbados, and cultural days that open the island itself. The setting does real work. It is difficult to think the same old thoughts in a place this far from the old capitals.
Dinners at Barbados' best tables, where the day's questions carry into the hours when people actually speak freely.
Apes Hill, Sandy Lane, and the kind of afternoons that turn colleagues into allies. Relationships form faster here than in any conference hall.
A programme that steps beyond the venue into the island itself, its history, its hospitality, and its place in the Global South story the Institute begins from.
Not the old capitals. The one that matters.
Weighty conversations need weighty ground, and that ground need not sit in London, Geneva, or New York. Barbados carries real institutional standing: deep roots in the common-law tradition, a working legal profession, and a governance architecture that makes it a substantive choice, not a scenic one. It is a sovereign setting in the Global South, the place the Institute reasons outward from, not a borrowed backdrop.
Three days that decide things. Two more that seal them.
The full programme, every session and the shape of each day, is published in detail closer to the convening. The arc of the week:
Speakers and senior delegates arrive early, welcomed into Barbados before the work begins. Time to land, unwind, and be grounded in the place, so that the people taking the stage arrive present, not jet-lagged off an overnight flight. The island does its work before the sessions do.
The stage is set. The forces, the questions, and the Grand Debate that frames what follows.
Closed-door dialogue and working sessions, where positions are taken and tested.
Open floor, the best ideas in law, and what the Institute takes beyond Barbados.
Barbados, opened up. A programme that steps beyond the venue into the island itself: its history, its hospitality, and its place in the Global South story the Institute begins from. Where the relationships made in the sessions deepen into something lasting.
Delegates are being confirmed.
Three days here. Twelve months of momentum in your system. The questions the field has been circling for years, taken up by the people who can actually move them, in a place built to make that happen.
Pre-register for the programme as it is published, and first notice when registration opens.