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CTN-SLB Conference

Critical Interventions in Law, Finance & Climate Change

A Conference by the Business Law Platform at ºÚÁÏÉç’s Faculty of Law and the CIBC Office Sustainable Finance at ºÚÁÏÉç’s Sustainable Growth Initiative

Inaugural Conference for the Canadian & Transnational Network for Sustainable Law+Business (CTN-SLB).

Date: Friday 2 – Saturday 3 May, 2025
Location: ºÚÁÏÉç Faculty of Law, Chancellor Day Hall, 3644 Peel Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1W9

From 2-3 May 2025, the Business Law Platform at ºÚÁÏÉç’s Faculty of Law, together with the CIBC Office of Sustainable Finance under ºÚÁÏÉç’s Sustainable Growth Initiative, will host the inaugural CTN-SLB Conference. Launching a pan-Canadian and transnational platform for critical research, teaching and collaboration on sustainability, business and finance, the Conference brings together scholars and activists from Canada, the U.S. and Europe for two days of sharing works in progress, discussions of research methods and related curriculum innovation.

Panels

  • Questioning the Inevitability of Global Value Chains, Modern Slavery and Capitalism’s ‘Normality’ of Exploitation and Destruction
  • The Coloniality of Private Law and Regulatory Governance
  • Launching the CTN-SLB: Network Goals & Strategies
  • Corporate Law as Transformation Laboratory
  • What’s Financialization Got To Do With It?
  • Law and Finance: Data, Banks, Climate
  • Greening the Economy, e.g. through Pension Funds Reform and International Financial Strategies?
  • (Author-Meets-Readers): Tom Fraser’s Invested in Crisis: Public Sector Pensions Against the Future

Register by Wednesday 30 April 2025.

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