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Topic: Systems Change
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Staying Anchored in Uncertain Times
This GAIL member event explored how the legal profession can leverage lessons from the neuroscience of spiritual practices
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Strengthening Global Collaboration Among Lawyers to Uphold the Rule of Law
This interactive roundtable focused on strengthening cross-border collaboration in support of the rule of law, in partnership with Trinity International in Paris.
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A New Legal Ethic for a Fractured World
This article sets out why, in the midst of climate crisis, digital disruption, and rising inequality, lawyers must embrace a renewed global legal ethic—grounded in human dignity, accountability, and the rule of law—to collaboratively shape a just and sustainable future.
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JusticeTech & AI for Law Students
GAIL pioneers JusticeTech and AI for law students in Mexico, with teams from four law schools building new ways for artificial intelligence to serve justice
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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 -
GAIL UK Members Drop-In
You are invited to the UK GAIL members drop-in session. Please join us for an informal, online meet-up.
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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 -
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 -
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