Upcoming Events
2025 Symposium on Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship, Impact Investing and Sustainable Development
The Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship and the Journal of Law & Business at NYU School of Law invite submissions for a symposium exploring legal issues in social entrepreneurship, impact investing, and sustainable development.
The submission period will open on July 7, 2025, and close on August 8, 2025.
Additional details will be shared soon.
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Past Events
Workshop: Launching and Managing Impact Investment Funds
This workshop concentrated on teaching skills and raising awareness about the business terms, structures, documentation and legal issues that arise when aggregating capital for impact investments. This workshop made use of a series of case studies that explore the life of an impact investment fund sponsored by Habitat for Humanity International. These case studies include collateral documents such as, among other things, actual deal documentation and video interviews with representatives of the parties to these contracts.
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2025 Legal Scholars & Educators Convening
This one-day convening followed the 2025 IILWG/Grunin Center Annual Conference on Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing – in the US and Beyond (June 3–4) and offered a unique opportunity to exchange ideas, share scholarship, and discuss pedagogical innovations with a community of legal scholars and educators.
This convening was open to faculty working in the fields of social entrepreneurship, impact investing, and sustainable development.
Webinar: Navigating Polarization as a Legal Professional in Impact Investing
This webinar was built on the success of a popular workshop from our 2024 Conference
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Webinar: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Grunin Prize Application and Evaluation Process
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Webinar: Exploring the Dynamics of External Counsel and In-House Counsel Collaborations in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing: More than Scribes
2024 Symposium on Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship, Impact Investing and Sustainable Development
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The Symposium on Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship, Impact Investing and Sustainable Development was co-hosted with the Journal of Law & Business.
- The Role of Guiding Principles When Taking a Relational Contractual Approach to Impact Investing Webinar
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- Relational Contracting in Advancing Social and Environmental Impact Webinar
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- Reception & Dinner Celebrating NYU Law Collaboration with Intesa Sanpaol
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NYU School of Law and the Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship co-hosted a special reception and dinner (November 16, 2022) in collaboration with Intesa Sanpaolo, one of the leading Italian and European financial institutions. The reception and dinner celebrated their partnership in advancing global research around antitrust laws and compliance policies, impact banks, and the green and circular economy.
- Social Impact and the Law: A Fireside Chat with former Rockefeller Foundation General Counsel Maria Santos Valentin and Professor Deborah Burand
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Deborah Burand, Professor of Law, introduced Maria Santos Valentin, the Grunin Center's new Distinguished Scholar & Senior Fellow, to the NYU Law School Community. They discussed the role philanthropy plays in catalyzing impact investing and sustainable development in the US and beyond, and how lawyers are shaping these philanthropic initiatives.