Legal Frameworks and Ethics for Sustainability

Law is a fundamental and important sector to help overcome all sustainability challenges. To achieve sustainability goals, enforceable legal tools must be put in place. It is necessary to understand what rules make the laws applicable to sustainability effectiveness and identify the means that ensure legal sustainability.

This module will cover all the aforementioned aspects, through evaluation and experimental analysis, as well as information about the effectiveness of environmental law in multiple countries.

Skills You Will Gain

  • Understand how to make a difference in social and environmental issues
  • Enter into an emotionally and financially rewarding career
  • Understand how sustainability extends into multiple fields of study

Module Delivery

These modules will be conducted virtually.

Structure of the Module Report
SectionWhat it might contain
Introduction
Identifies and introduces your experience or learning
  • Introducing sustainability and the ability to meet the needs of society without compromising the needs of future generations.
Highlightswhy it was important
  • Sustainability can help reduce the negative aspects of society, conflict of interest, and the safety of the environment. It is more important than ever to seek sustainable solutions, not only to create a cleaner, healthier, and safer legal world, but also to prevent catastrophic changes to the environment in the future.
Outline key themes that will appear in the reflection (optional – but particularly relevant when answering a reflective prompt or essay)
  • Ethical sourcing in law
  • Sustainable supply chain legal management
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Employee legal care
  • Regulating legal relations between members of society
  • Resolving disputes according to sustainable justice
Main body

It can be helpful to explore one theme/learning per paragraph.

Explore Experiences:
  • You can bring sustainability into your life by being a ‘conscious consumer.’ Looking at the sustainability practices of the businesses you buy from and demanding better practices is a direct way to bring sustainability into our lives. 
Analyze and Synthesize:
  • Environmental legal protection
  • Social legal development
  • Legal economic development
Conclusion
State or restate your learning
  • We learned that organizations must take responsibility for their impact on environmental, social, and economic issues in the right legal way.
Plan for the future
  • The legal sector must take responsibility for directing legislators to introduce the vocabulary of sustainability into legal texts.
Answer the question or prompt (if applicable)
  • I am ready to answer your questions about our goal to create a legal sustainable world 

Moderators

Dr. Lina Alfayoumi1
Presenter

Dr. Lina Alfayoumi

Assistant Professor of Commercial Law
College of Law
Abu Dhabi University

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Dr-M-Haitham-Salman

Managing Partner
Middle East Alliance Legal Consultancy

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