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Author: Keya Advani
Building an Impact Law Practice
A plenary session featuring managing partners and senior lawyers from five diverse law firms across France, Argentina, the UK, Ghana, and the USA discuss the essence and practicalities of what it means to be an impact law practice, how impact approaches are integrated across firm culture & structures and their practical implications for client advisory…
Innovating Legal Impact: Pioneering Impactful Structures and Contracts. Keynote by Aunnie Patton Power
This keynote address highlights the imperative for lawyers to guide clients proactively to incorporate impact considerations into their organisational structures and processes. Aunnie explores how embedding these elements fosters innovation and enhances the effectiveness of legal contracts in driving social & environmental impact.
Blended Finance for a Just Transition
A deep-dive into legal frameworks for blended finance, exploring its role as a crucial financing tool for facilitating a just transition and launching a seminal GAIL report written and produced by a cross-jurisdictional working group of impact lawyers: “Unlocking Legal Pathways for Blended Finance: Case Studies and Global Insights”.
Rewriting the Rules – Pathways to Legal Systems Change by Indy Johar
A keynote session at the GAIL Annual Summit 2024 delving into the very roots of our legal systems, challenging conventional thinking and necessitating a re-evaluation of our legal and economic frameworks and the role of lawyers in bringing about this transformation.
Leveraging Law and Economics to Tackle Climate Change by Professor Elizabeth Robinson
A keynote session at the GAIL Annual Summit 2024 on the crucial intersection of law, economics, and climate action, with a focus on attributing health outcomes to emissions, paving the way for accountability among emitters, the potential for litigation for damages and creating incentives to steer large emitters away from fossil fuels.
Pioneers Post: Why Mother Nature should be a ‘she’ not an ‘it’
Pioneers Post’s Editors Post highlights the role of lawyers in leading the way for nature and takes note of The Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers’ Annual Summit 2024.
Profile of a Benefit Biotech: United Therapeutics’ Journey of Becoming and Existing as a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC)
This profile describes the legal benefit corporation framework, distinguishes it from the B Corp business certification, and summarizes the journey of United Therapeutics towards and beyond corporate conversion in order to further its sustainability goals.
GAIL Asia Pacific presents Issue 3 of the Impact Lawyers Journal
The third edition of the Impact Lawyers Journal features articles on Sharing Responsibility for Sustainable Supply Chains under the European Union Deforestation-free Regulation; impact law updates from China and Japan, APAC perspectives on impact approaches in PE and VC, and much more.
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How B Corps Can Establish Responsible Procurement Frameworks to Reduce Human Rights Abuses
BLab recently released its draft of the proposed standards for B Corp Certification. This article, published in B The Change, discusses the proposed standards concerning the human rights topic and how companies can incorporate specific contractual arrangements to establish a framework for reducing human rights abuses in supply chains.
Mapping the Regulatory Frameworks Enabling the Impact Economy & ESG Compliance in Latin America (English)
The project “Mapping the regulatory frameworks that enable the impact economy & ESG in Latin America” is an initiative promoted by the Global Alliance for Impact Lawyers (GAIL), which seeks to identify the existing regulation in the region related to particular ESG issues. (Environment, Social and Governance – in Spanish Ambiente, Social y Gobernanza -…