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Author: Louise Williams
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I Am an Impact Lawyer: Getting to Know Leslie Cornell, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Social Finance, Inc.
This new series by GAIL North America will spotlight our members across the United States and the diverse ways they are practising impact law. For this article, we hear from Leslie Cornell.
Benefit Corporations and B Corps, Blended Finance, Business and Human Rights, Business for Good, Climate and Environment, Corporate Governance, Development Finance, ESG, Impact Finance, In House Lawyers, Innovative Legal Structures, Legislation and Regulation, Mission driven businesses, Philanthropy, Public Interest Litigation, Steward Ownership, Systems Change -
I Am an Impact Lawyer: Getting to Know Julian Harrell, Partner at Faegre Drinker
This new series by GAIL North America will spotlight our members across the United States and the diverse ways they are practising impact law. For this article, we hear from Julian Harrell.
Benefit Corporations and B Corps, Blended Finance, Business and Human Rights, Business for Good, Climate and Environment, Corporate Governance, Development Finance, ESG, Impact Finance, Innovative Legal Structures, Legislation and Regulation, Mission driven businesses, Philanthropy, Public Interest Litigation, Steward Ownership, Systems Change -
Office for the Impact Economy
The Office for the Impact Economy is a new central government hub designed to coordinate and strengthen partnerships with impact investors, philanthropy, and purpose-driven businesses to boost social and economic impact across the UK. Find out more here.
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RIGHTS OF RIVERS: A practical guide for local communities and local authorities to recognise your local rivers’ rights
The report outlines why England’s current environmental laws are failing to protect rivers and makes a practical, globally informed case for recognising rivers as living entities with legal rights, supported through local councils, communities, and new forms of river guardianship.
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MEMBER REPORT 2025 – LEGAL SECTOR SUSTAINABILITY UPDATE
Read the 2025 AusLSA Sustainability Insight Report.
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JOINT PRESS RELEASE EU watchdog slams Commission’s undemocratic environmental rollbacks
The EU Ombudswoman has ruled that the European Commission acted improperly in weakening environmental and human-rights protections through opaque, non-democratic “Omnibus” processes, prompting NGOs to demand stricter transparency and evidence-based lawmaking for all future reforms.
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A Few Words from the GAIL President – Q4 2025
Michael Ryland, the President of GAIL, reflects on the growing momentum of the impact economy and calls on impact lawyers, through GAIL’s platform and community, to “raise the bar” by innovating, showing the law’s value, and acting as catalysts for systemic change in the face of urgent climate, social, and political challenges.
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Law in an Age of Transformation – Keynote by Marcel Fukayama
This keynote session, on 15 October 2025, addressed the widening gap between traditional legal frameworks and the rapidly evolving social, environmental, economic, and technological conditions shaping the modern world.
AI, Benefit Corporations and B Corps, Blended Finance, Business and Human Rights, Business for Good, Climate and Environment, Corporate Governance, Development Finance, ESG, Impact Finance, Innovative Legal Structures, Legislation and Regulation, Mission driven businesses, Philanthropy, Public Interest Litigation, Steward Ownership, Systems Change -
Regulation – A Tool or a Barrier for Impact?
This webinar brought together practitioners and thought leaders from across Latin America to explore how legal frameworks can both enable and constrain social and environmental impact.
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I Am an Impact Lawyer: Getting to Know Patrick Miller, Founding Attorney at Impact Advocates APC
This series by GAIL North America will spotlight our members across the United States and the diverse ways they are practising impact law. For this first article, we hear from Patrick Miller, Founding Attorney at Impact Advocates APC
Benefit Corporations and B Corps, Blended Finance, Business and Human Rights, Business for Good, Climate and Environment, Corporate Governance, Development Finance, ESG, Impact Finance, Innovative Legal Structures, Legislation and Regulation, Mission driven businesses, Philanthropy, Public Interest Litigation, Steward Ownership, Systems Change