The IBA's Legal Policy & Research Unit has created a series of podcasts covering the UN Sustainable Development Goals and looking at the role of the global legal community in meeting this agenda. The series covers environmental, social and governance challenges. It looks at gender diversity, mental wellbeing, legal tech, the rule of law and more.
Podcast series: Sustainable Law in Action
Sustainable Law in Action: ESG Conference February 2024
In this special edition of the Sustainable Law in Action podcast, Sara Carnegie, IBA Legal Projects Director, and barrister Melissa Murphy KC, speak with expert panellists from the IBA’s 2024 ESG Conference about the critical role of lawyers in the ESG space, and the challenges and opportunities facing businesses and law firms alike in this evolving and increasingly politicised environment.
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Sustainable Law in Action: A conversation with Spanish senior lawyer Marlen Estévez
In this episode, Beatriz Martínez, IBA LPRU Project Lawyer, speaks with Marlen Estévez, partner at the Spanish law firm RocaJunyent, about the ‘50:50 by 2030’ gender project, her thoughts and advice on how to navigate a career in law and the need for connecting female lawyers within the different sectors of the legal profession. Marlen combines her role as a lawyer with the presidency of Women in a Legal World, a non-profit organisation focused on promoting female talent in the legal sector.
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Sustainable Law in Action: Achieving true equality in the legal profession – a conversation with Georgia Dawson
In this episode, Sara Carnegie, IBA Legal Projects Director and Beatriz Martinez, project lawyer, speak with current Senior Partner of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Georgia Dawson, the first woman to be appointed to this position within a Magic Circle Firm.
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Sustainable Law in Action: How to be a lawyer in wartime – an interview with Ukrainian lawyer Nazar Chernyavsky
In this episode, Sara Carnegie, IBA Legal Projects Director, speaks with Nazar Chernyavsky, partner at the Ukrainian law firm Sayenko Kharenko and Vice-Chair of the IBA Technology Law Committee, about how life and work has changed for Ukrainian lawyers since the start of the Russian invasion.
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Sustainable Law in Action: Non-disclosure agreements – an interview with Zelda Perkins and Professor Julie Macfarlane
In this episode, Sara Carnegie, IBA Legal Projects Director, speaks to Zelda Perkins and Professor Julie Macfarlane about their experience with NDAs and the ‘Can’t Buy My Silence’ campaign which they launched in September 2021.
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Sustainable finance: interview with BlackRock and experts from private practice
In this episode, Sara Carnegie, IBA Legal Projects Director and Maria Pia Sacco, LPRU Senior Project Lawyer, interview Michelle Edkins, Managing Director of BlackRock’s Investment Stewardship team, and Ariel Smilowitz, an associate on the Investment Stewardship team, to explore the role of investment stewardship in promoting sustainability. The conversation continues with Jeroen Ouwehand, Global Senior Partner at Clifford Chance, Roberto Randazzo, a partner at Legance and Ramya S Tiller, a partner at Debevoise & Plimpton, on the regulatory landscape for sustainable finance, the importance of ESG transparency and the need for a common language to curb the risk of greenwashing.
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Sustainable mining: an interview with Anglo American, IBA President and experts from private practice
In this episode, Jonathan Hoch (Head of Legal and Commercial at Anglo American) speaks with Sara Carnegie (IBA Director of Legal Projects) and Maria Pia Sacco (LPRU Senior Project Lawyer) about how Anglo American has become a leader in sustainable mining, with sustainability increasingly becoming a competitive advantage.
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Mental wellbeing: interview with Graham Boal QC, former Old Bailey judge
In this episode of the Legal Policy and Research Unit's Sustainable Law in Action podcast series, Sara Carnegie, IBA Legal Projects Director, speaks to Graham Boal QC, former judge at the Old Bailey, about imposter syndrome and how success is not necessarily synonymous with greater confidence and wellbeing. They also focus on the devastating effects of alcoholism and depression, the stigma commonly associated with them and why promoting mental wellbeing is so important to ensure sustainable career development for legal professionals.
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An interview with Marks & Spencer’s General Counsel and experts from private practice
In this episode, Nick Folland (General Counsel, Marks & Spencer) and Sarah Dickson (Deputy General Counsel, Marks & Spencer), Sara Carnegie (IBA Director of Legal Projects) and Maria Pia Sacco (LPRU Senior Project Lawyer), discuss: how in house legal teams are navigating the evolving and increasingly fragmented legal framework regarding business and human rights and ESG; the importance of multi-stakeholder initiative and collaborations in the fight against modern slavery in global supply chains; and the importance of embedding sustainability in the business model of a company.
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An interview with Professor John Ruggie on business and sustainability
In this episode, Sara Carnegie, Director of the LPRU and Maria Pia Sacco, LPRU Senior Project Lawyer, speak to Professor John Ruggie, the author of the UNGPs, who was appointed by Kofi Annan as the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for business and human rights in 2005. Together, they discuss the impact of the UNGPs and future developments in the area of business and sustainability.
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