Juris North ASAP Roundtables 2022: “Sustainability”

 

Juris North ASAP Roundtables 2022

To follow up the 2020 Congress “Global Justice and Sovereignty” and the 2020 “Global Response to Crisis” Roundtables, Academics Stand Against Poverty (Yale’s ASAP) and Juris North will be working together again in 2022. We plan to have a set of three thematic roundtables running between April and June and a final Congress in September 2022. 

Title: Global Response to crisis: sustainability, SDGS and climate change

Thinking globally, acting locally

Aims:

. To critically assess local, regional and/or global law and policy that have to do with sustainability and its crossover with a specific thematic area.

. To explore different stakeholder views on a range of sustainability-related topics.

. To seek international perspectives and exchanges about a range of sustainability-related topics and explore possibilities for collaboration in terms of research, practice and education.

Final Target:

National and international legal and political orders around the world.

Lead by:

Dr Jorge E. Núñez, Manchester Law School

Dr Rita G. Klapper, Manchester Business School

Thematic areas:

·      Entrepreneurship and Sustainability (practice and education): lead by Dr Rita G. Klapper (UK and international). 

.      Gender: Lead by Dr Kay Lalor (UK) and Dr Natalina Stamile (Italy)

·      Access to rights: Lead by Dr Jorge E. Núñez (UK and Latin America)

·      Poverty, Sovereignty and Economic Rights: Lead by Dr Clarice Seixas Duarte (Brazil)

·      Climate change: Lead by Dr Danielle Denny (Brazil)

Participants: open to all. Ideally, multi-disciplinary, transversal and inclusive (academics, policy-makers, people at large from different states, religions, genders, ethnicities, etc.).

Format: ​Zoom, private sessions. We won’t be streaming the sessions live with exception of the final event.  We’ll make the keynote presentations public.

Dates/Times: monthly meetings. Why from April onwards?

April 2022: Date/Time TBC

May 2022: Date/Time TBC

June 2022: Date/Time TBC

Final event: September 2022 (TBC whether face to face or online, depending on the situation at the time in relation to the pandemic).

If you’re interested in sending an abstract (up to 500 words) for consideration or simply taking part in our roundtables, please send your email to j.nunez@mmu.ac.uk  by Friday 25th March 2022.