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DESCRIPTION:Professor of Business Law Peer Zumbansen welcomes Simon Archer 
 for the second installment in the Seminars in Business & Society series of
  2021-2022 for a talk on The Rising Tide of Climate Litigation: The Strate
 gy and Politics.\n\nAbstract\n\nThe most recent Intergovernmental Panel on
  Climate Change report sounded a “code red” on the urgent need for concert
 ed state and private actions to address climate change caused by greenhous
 e gas production. Litigation over the causes and effects of GHG production
  has expanded rapidly\, including claims against the “carbon majors”\, sta
 tes and financiers of GHG production and consumption. This discussion will
  examine the law and politics of the Canadian litigation involving climate
  change with reference to landmark cases in Australia\, the US and the EU.
 \n\nAbout the speaker\n\nSimon Archer is a partner at Goldblatt Partners L
 LP. He works in the areas of trade unions\, retiree associations and board
 s of trustees across Canada\, advising on negotiating pension and benefits
 \, trust administration and fiduciary issues\, public interest litigation\
 , insolvencies\, corporate accountability and governance. He is a co-direc
 tor of the Comparative Research in Law and Political Economy Forum at Osgo
 ode Hall Law School and a Fellow at Kings College London.\n\nAbout the McG
 ill Seminars in Business & Society series\n\nThe McGill Seminars in Busine
 ss & Society Seminars address a broad audience and seek to facilitate a ne
 w conversation between law and management\, sociology and environmental st
 udies\, history and political science. Above all\, the seminars are concer
 ned with building bridges between the academy and practice.\n\nIn its firs
 t\, inaugural term 2021-2022\, the McGill Business & Society Seminars shal
 l provide a forum to reflect on the challenges to business and society aga
 inst the background of the – still ongoing – pandemic. The crisis has put 
 global connectivity and interdependence into sharp relief\, while it expos
 ed the still too rare examples of effective transnational cooperation. Giv
 en the intensity of public debates around what might come “after COVID”\, 
 the present moment presents an opportunity to explore possible avenues of 
 learning from the crisis in order to move forward in a different manner. W
 here the pandemic has provided a lens on the institutional changes that ec
 onomic globalization has brought over the past 30 years\, it also prompts 
 us to engage in new conversations about HOW the pandemic can serve as a tr
 ansformative experience.\n\nJust as the area of “business law” has never b
 een limited to the narrow\, doctrinal confines of corporate and commercial
  law\, a conversation about business and society must engage the deeper co
 nnections between companies\, labour markets\, public policy and tax law\,
  on the one hand\, and connect to the vibrant public debate around the rel
 ationship between and\, even more specifically\, the role and place of “bu
 siness” in “society.”\n\nToday’s conversations about the role and responsi
 bilities of business enterprises reflect a growing public interest in ques
 tions of sustainability\, equality and diversity\, climate change and over
 all a more future-oriented corporate governance reflective of the corporat
 ion’s “purpose”. As these debates translate into legal discourse\, the eme
 rging and pressing issues concern corporate board composition\, board dive
 rsity and executive pay\, stakeholder representation and stakeholder gover
 nance\, supply chain governance\, workers’ rights and ‘anti-slavery law’\,
  board diversity and executive pay\, “corporate stewardship”\, “environmen
 tal\, social and governance” (ESG)\, as well as the impact of new technolo
 gies\, including artificial intelligence on business law.\n
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LOCATION:Zoom: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84355228548
SUMMARY:The Rising Tide of Climate Litigation: The Strategy and Politics
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/law/channels/event/rising-tide-climate-litigation
 -strategy-and-politics-332828
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