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Charting Paths: Opportunities and Challenges for Early-Career Impact Lawyers
This session focuses on the fact that ‘impact law exists’ as a career path/practice. Lawyers in their early-career share their personal journeys and the different paths they have taken to get to where they are.
Implementing CSDDD: Legal Tools for Sustainable Supply Chains
As part of London Climate Action Week, this webinar was for legal professionals dedicated to advancing supply chain and procurement sustainability. The GAIL Europe Board explored the latest tools and strategies for enhancing sustainability with a focus on implementing the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).
Navigating Challenges in Implementing Impact: 3 Perspectives
In this session, our panellists offer diverse observations on how a maturing ESG environment is impacting their work and fiduciary obligations.
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.
Evolving Approaches to ESG, Pro Bono and Impact Law: Roundtable Session
Explore the evolving trends in social impact, the role of pro bono work, and the relevant ESG initiatives that can be leveraged to foster meaningful change. This includes examining how pro bono efforts align with ESG principles and impact lawyering, as well as understanding where they fit within the broader landscape of corporate responsibility.
Impact Litigation: Mechanisms for Remedies and Enforcement
This session explored grievance mechanisms and dispute resolution frameworks under the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), focusing on their effectiveness, corporate compliance, and innovative approaches.