2025 Symposium on Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship, Impact Investing, and Sustainable Development
Event Details
When: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Where: NYU School of Law
The Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship and the Journal of Law & Business at NYU School of Law invite submissions for a symposium on legal issues arising in social entrepreneurship, impact investing, and sustainable development to be held at NYU School of Law.
The objective of this symposium is to convene legal scholars in a collegial and supportive environment to share and comment on works in progress that advance the following fields:
- social entrepreneurship,
- impact investing, and
- sustainable development.
This year's symposium asks: how can we foster resilience among those engaging in social entrepreneurship, impact investing and/or sustainable development in these times of change and great uncertainty?
2025 Symposium Presenters
Congratulations to the selected presenters for this year's Symposium on Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship, Impact Investing, and Sustainable Development.
We're looking forward to learning about their work around this year’s theme: fostering resilience in times of change.
- "The European Green Bond Standard and the Path Forward for the US Market," by John P. Hunt (University of California, Davis School of Law)
- “Beyond the Box: Reimagining Legal Agreements for Resilience, Alignment, and Emotional Intelligence in Social Enterprise,” by J. Kim Wright (Quinnipiac University School of Law) and Kara Perry (Quinnipiac University School of Law and Seton Hall School of Law)
- “From Ambiguity to Application: Anchoring Impact-First Investing via UPMIFA in the Legal Doctrine of Program-Related Investments,” by Leslie Cornell (Social Finance)
- “The Impact Observer,” by Anat Alon-Beck (Case Western Reserve University School of Law) and Nizan Geslevich Packin (Baruch College)
- “No More Free Lunches: Paying the People Who Made the Table,” by Evan Absher (University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law)