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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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Lawyers in Philanthropy
Discover how legal expertise shapes the future of philanthropy in this recording from a GAIL UK Event.
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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.