Please join us on Wednesday, November 2 from 12:30-2pm for the celebratory book launch of Corporate Law and Sustainability from the Next Generation of Lawyers at Allard Law!
This unique and important book by Allard Law alumni gives voice to young lawyers offering new critical perspectives in the burgeoning field of corporate law and sustainability. Millennials are coming of age at a critical juncture in our climate and corporate history. At the event there will be a panel discussion on the future of business and the role of lawyers in the age of the Anthropocene, followed by a lunch reception.
Book contributors: Cristina Borbely, Selena Chen, Blair Feltmate, Catherine L.H. Lee, Julie Liang, Oludolapo Makinde, Megan Parisotto, Bikaramjit S. Sandhu, Erica Sandhu, Saul Wang, Asha Young, Sherry Yu. Edited by Carol Liao with Foreword by Joel Bakan.
Speakers:
- Jaclyn Miller, 1L & Allard Law & Business Society (Introduction)
- Joel Bakan, author and filmmaker of The Corporation and The New Corporation
- Blair Feltmate, JFK Law
- Carol Liao, Associate Professor and Director, Centre for Business Law, UBC Allard Law
- Oludolapo Makinde, PhD Candidate, Liu Scholar, UBC Allard Law & UBC SPPGA
- Asha Young, Lawson Lundell LLP
- Margot Young, Board Chair, David Suzuki Foundation & Professor, UBC Allard Law
- Joanna El-Mataki and Yara Nijm, Allard Women's Caucus (Closing remarks)
Copies of the book will be available to purchase at the event by UBC Bookstore. Susgrainable Cookies, made from the rescued grains of local craft breweries by a UBC alumni business, will also be gifted to attendees.
Lunch reception for registrants will follow the panel. Co-hosted by the Centre for Business Law, Centre for Law and the Environment, Centre for Feminist Legal Studies, Allard Law & Business Society, and Allard Women's Caucus. Open to the public.
- Centre for Business Law
- Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
- Centre for Law and the Environment
- General Public
