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QUIRINO MANCINI President INTERNATIONAL MASTERS OF GAMING LAW
An exciting year ahead for the IMGL
W elcome to this edition of the IMGL Magazine with its rich collection of news and views from around the world of gaming law. Those of you who attended our wonderfully successful Zurich conference in September will have heard me announce that the IMGL spring and autumn conferences next year will be in Tampa Bay, Florida in April and Rome, Italy in October respectively. The Tampa Bay organizing committee has already started its work and early bird rates are now available for you to secure your place. I am looking forward to being involved in both events but especially the one in Rome, marking exactly twenty years since the IMGL was the last (and also first) time in my home country. This conference is being organised in partnership with the International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR) consistent with my plans to foster an ever closer and mutually beneficial dialogue and working relationship with regulators from across the globe . By the time you read this, our second student writing competition will be about to close. Kathryn Rand and her colleagues on the IMGL education committee will then be faced with the task of reviewing and judging entries from students of gaming law in the US and Canada. I
am convinced that this competition can play an important role in giving students a platform to test their writing skills in front of an audience of critical friends. Judging by the standard of last year’s competition, they are very much up to the challenge. The student writing competition is an introduction to the IMGL for the next generation of gaming lawyers and we will also have the opportunity to learn from their research and efforts. I wish all entrants the very best of luck. We plan to start a “rest of the world” writing competition next year. If you have ever wondered how articles make it to publication in the IMGL Magazine, the process is a simple one. Potential contributors should write to our Head of Publications at phil@IMGL.org and he will do everything he can to assist you to submit an article. This is very much conference season, and many of us will be speaking at, moderating or attendingone of the numerous industry events taking place. Keep an eye out for IMGL Masterclasses and for IMGL colleagues wherever you are and let’s continue to make the IMGL the best definitely most global network in gaming law.
Quirino Mancini
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IMGL MAGAZINE | OCTOBER 2023
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