Registration & Networking Breakfast

Inaugural Plenary "Rule of Law in a Multipolar World: Building Legal Capacity for Economic Resilience" The session opens the Forum and seeks to identify the principal challenges facing legal systems in BRICS+ economies - economic volatility, fragmentation of multilateral governance, and the gap between political commitments and available legal instruments and capacity - providing the context within which the substantive sessions operate.

Tea / Networking Break

Plenary Session - I Economic Resilience and the Rule of Law: Legal Systems as Shock Absorbers The session seeks to assess how legal frameworks across BRICS+ jurisdictions respond to external economic shocks - including supply chain disruption, trade-restrictive measures, and currency instability. It seeks to identify where legal systems reduce cross-border friction and where they compound it, and to determine what degree of regulatory harmonisation or mutual recognition within the BRICS+ framework is feasible and necessary. A collective BRICS+ legal response can serve as a reference framework for the broader developing world.

Lunch

Special Session - I Legal Education and Institutional Capacity Building for Innovation Economies The session seeks to determine whether legal education in BRICS+ jurisdictions is producing practitioners equipped for innovation-driven economies - particularly in technology transactions, digital finance, AI-related advisory work, and cross-border dispute resolution. It seeks to develop practical measures including mutual recognition of qualifications, joint curriculum development, and structured exchange programmes for legal educators and regulatory officials.

Tea Break

Special Session - II Sustainability, Climate Finance and Developmental Justice The session seeks to identify legal obstacles to climate finance flows in BRICS+ developing economies - covering sovereign guarantee structures, blended finance, environmental liability, and the relationship between climate obligations and investment treaty protections. It further seeks to propose how climate finance frameworks can reflect the development priorities of borrowing economies and the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, including through sustainable development focused financing from the New Development Bank.

Special Keynote - I Development Finance and the Rule of Law: The NDB Model and Sovereign-Led Growth A keynote address that seeks to draw out the rule-of-law dimensions of the NDB’s member-led, demand-driven model and its implications for the legal architecture the Forum addresses.

Gala Dinner At Silver Oak & Patio, IHC

Registration & Networking Breakfast

Plenary Session - II The BRICS Arbitration Network (BRICSAN): Designing Multi-Seat and Multi-Jurisdictional Commercial Arbitration Frameworks The session seeks to advance the design of BRICSAN as a BRICS+ commercial arbitration network, addressing seat plurality, procedural rules, SME-specific expedited procedures and fee structures, enforcement of awards under the New York Convention, and the institutional role of BRICS+ bar associations. It seeks to produce a BRICSAN Design Framework as its primary output.

Tea Break

Special Session - III AI Governance, Digital Trust, and the Emerging Regulatory Compact for the Data Economy The session seeks to address the absence of harmonised AI governance standards across BRICS+ jurisdictions and the compliance and data sovereignty conflicts this creates. Building on the BRICS Leaders’ Statement on AI Governance and the India AI Impact Summit framework, it seeks to develop BRICS+ principles on AI deployment, liability, algorithmic accountability, and cross-border data governance.

Lunch

Special Session - IV New Fora and Frameworks for International Investment Treaty Arbitration The session seeks to assess the international investment treaty arbitration system from a BRICS+ perspective, with focus on provisions that constrain regulatory sovereignty and public interest measures. It seeks to develop draft BRICS+ Model Investment Treaty provisions and a feasibility assessment for a BRICS+ Investment Court, drawing on the UNCITRAL Working Group III reform process.

Tea Break

Special Keynote - II Digital Payment Systems in BRICS+: Building Legal, Technological and Regulatory Architecture for interoperability The session seeks to examine the legal, technological and regulatory conditions for interoperability across BRICS+ digital payment systems, with particular reference to cross-border settlement architecture, data sovereignty requirements, and the harmonisation of licensing and compliance frameworks.

Closing Plenary Towards a BRICS+ Legal Architecture for the 21st Century The session seeks to synthesise rapporteurs’ reports from all preceding sessions and adopt the 11th BRICS+ Legal Forum Declaration. It seeks to constitute the working groups agreed during the Forum, set the mandate for the 12th Forum, and transmit the Declaration to the India BRICS Chairship.

Day - 1 (Saturday, 22nd August, 2026)

Day - 2 (Sunday, 23rd August, 2026) These meetings will concentrate on finalising the Forum declaration and defining institutional outcomes. Attendance by invitation only.

BAI will hold bilateral meetings with arriving delegations on 21st August to receive suggestions and ensure positive outcomes of the Forum. The meeting schedule will be communicated once BAI receives arrival schedules of all delegations. BAI recommends that delegations arrive by the evening of 20th August so that the full day of 21st August may be utilised to structure the future direction of the Forum. These meetings will concentrate on finalising the declaration and defining Forum outcomes.