IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit podcast
The International Bar Association's Legal Policy & Research Unit produces research and develops strategies relevant to business, the rule of law, and the global legal profession. Their latest series features short interviews with inspiring IBA members sharing their experiences as women in the legal profession.
Episodes
Inspirational legal women: a conversation with Berit Reiss-Andersen
Berit Reiss-Andersen is a Norwegian lawyer and author with a legal career spanning more than four decades. She began her career as a prosecutor with the Oslo Police before establishing her own legal practice and later joining DLA Piper. Berit has also held major leadership roles within the profession, including serving as President of the Norwegian Bar Association and as State Secretary to the Nor
Inspirational legal women: a conversation with Geraldine Clarke
Geraldine Clarke is a partner at Gleeson McGrath Baldwin and former President of the Law Society of Ireland. Since she began practising in 1978, Geraldine has witnessed and shaped profound change in the Irish legal profession. She is one of the few solicitors in Ireland who can refer to herself as senior counsel, as the government has recognised her special expertise in specific areas of law. Gera
Inspirational legal women: a conversation with Lise Lotte Hjerrild
Lise Lotte Hjerrild is a leading Danish M&A and corporate governance lawyer. As senior partner at HortenDahl in Denmark, she has led more than 150 major corporate and public M&A transactions across sectors including energy, life sciences and healthcare. Alongside her commercial practice, Lise Lotte serves on the IBA Management Board and Women Lawyers' Committee Advisory Board, where she ha
Inspirational legal women: a conversation with Pascale Lagesse
Pascale Lagesse is a partner and founder of Bredin Prat’s employment law practice, as well as being the current Vice-Chair of the International Bar Association’s Legal Practice Division and a member of the IBA Management Board. She has been recognised as one of the leading employment law lawyers in France, as well as being one of the top 40 of the CAC 40 lawyers, which refers to expert business la
Inspirational legal women: a conversation with Fiona McLeod AO KC
Fiona McLeod is a senior counsel with more than 30 years’ experience practising across Australia in commercial and public law, including doing considerable work on class actions and royal commissions. She was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2020 Australia Day Honours for distinguished service to the law and to the legal profession at the national and international level, and to
ESG Conference 2025: a conversation with Lauren Boccardi
Lauren Boccardi leads the legal team supporting The Nature Conservancy’s impact investment portfolio. Before joining the Conservancy, Lauren served at the US Agency for International Development (USAID), where she most recently served as the Deputy Assistant General Counsel for USAID’s Bureau for Food Security and for the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance. Her work at USAI
ESG Conference 2025: a conversation with Mariana Herrero
Mariana Herrero is a leading Mexican environmental lawyer. She holds extensive expertise on wildlife protection, waste regulation and environmental law, integrating insights from projects, litigation and M&A. As the first female partner at her firm, she champions diversity, equity and inclusion, having led the firm’s DE&I Committee and co-founded Abogadas MX to promote women in legal leade
ESG Conference 2025: a conversation with Naa Atswei Koney
Naa Atswei Koney is a sustainability and climate change specialist with Ernst & Young West Africa and is the Lead Manager for the Climate Change and Sustainability Services unit in Accra. Her team focuses on providing end-to-end ESG advisory services to corporate clients, from how to build resilience and meet their compliance obligations, to how they can unlock value through sustainable busine
ESG Conference 2025: a conversation with Paola Fonseca
Paola Fonseca is Senior Corporate Counsel at Sphera, a leading provider of integrated sustainability and operational risk management software, data and consulting services. Paola has extensive expertise in corporate governance, contracting, and ESG regulatory compliance throughout Ibero-America, and is currently completing a PhD at the UN University for Peace, where she examines how multinational
ESG Conference 2025: a conversation with Steven Richman
Steven Richman is Chair of the IBA Bar Issues Commission, and represents the Bar Issues Commission on the IBA AI Taskforce. Steven is also a member of Clark Hill PLC, based in Princeton and New York, and has extensive experience in national and international litigation across broad areas of commercial and business practice, as well as arbitration and appellate practice. Steven has written and spok
Ambassador Willem Van de Voorde
Ambassador Willem Van de Voorde is a Belgian diplomat currently serving as Special Envoy for Climate and Environment at the Belgian Foreign Ministry. His distinguished career includes roles as Ambassador in Berlin and in Vienna, and to the European Union until November 2024, Secretary to the Queen, and Deputy Head of Mission in Berlin and Tokyo. He has also led the cabinet of two foreign ministers
ESG Conference 2025: a conversation with Pascal Durand
Pascal Durand is a lawyer and former Elected Member of the European Parliament. Mon Durand co-founded the French Europe Ecologie les Verts in 2008, and was elected to the European Parliament under the green banner in 2014, where he worked on many subjects including the transparency of public life, addressing tax evasion and trade secrets, and protection of whistle-blowers. Mon Durand was re-electe
ESG Conference 2025: a conversation with Damilola S Olawuyi
Professor Damilola S Olawuyi is an international lawyer, professor, and policy adviser specialising in business and human rights, energy, natural resources, and environmental law. He serves as UNESCO Chairholder on Environmental Law and Sustainable Development at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar and is Director of the OGEES Institute in Nigeria. A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (KC) and Fellow of
Inspirational Legal Women: a conversation with Carli Schickerling
Carli Schickerling is a Namibian lawyer and Officer of the IBA LGBTQI+ Law Committee, with a 16-year career spanning a wide range of practice areas including family law, general civil litigation, immigration and human rights. She has consistently used her legal expertise to champion the rights of minorities and marginalized groups, foster a culture of diversity and inclusion and advocate for equal
Inspirational Legal Women: A conversation with Adeola Sunmola
Adeola Sunmola is a partner at Udo Udoma and Belo-Osagie in Nigeria, where she leads teams specialising in project development and project finance in the power sector. Her expertise encompasses a diverse range of legal subjects, notably cross-border lending, syndicated lending, non-interest finance, debt restructuring, and financing for intricate power, manufacturing, and infrastructure projects i
Inspirational legal women: a conversation with Akila Agrawal
Akila Agrawal is a distinguished corporate lawyer based in New Delhi with over 23 years of experience in M&A, and corporate restructuring. She is a Senior Partner at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and set up the first creche at a law firm in India over 20 years ago when her first child was born. Akila has been consistently recognized by Chambers Global and Chambers Asia-Pacific for her expertise in
Inspirational legal women: a conversation with Imbi Jürgen
Imbi Jürgen is president of the Estonian Bar Association (since 2022) and now 3rd Vice-President of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE). Since qualifying in 1996 she has worked at several highly esteemed commercial law firms, specialising in energy, environmental, and contract law. She is now working as counsel in pan-Baltic law firm TGS Baltic.
Inspirational legal women: a conversation with Alessandra Nascimento Silva e Figueiredo Mourão
Founding partner of Nascimento e Mourão Advogados in São Paulo, Alessandra is an inspiring mentor to women and young lawyers. She is a past Chair of the Professional Ethics Committee of the IBA and a member of the SPPI Council. Alessandra created and coordinates the ‘Negotiation Techniques for Lawyers’ course at Fundação Getúlio Vargas Law School and is a guest lecturer at Universidade Católica Po
Inspirational legal women: a conversation with Associate Justice Mary-Jane Ierodiaconou
The Hon Associate Justice Mary-Jane Ierodiaconou is a judicial officer of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia, which is the highest court in the state. Prior to her Honour’s appointment to the Bench in 2015, she worked as an employment and discrimination lawyer and co-founded female-led, collaborative Australian law firm Justitia in 2005, where she was a managing partner. Associate Justice Ie
Inspirational Legal Women: a conversation with Lucie Allen
Lucie Allen has spent most of her career working with the legal profession, previously working as Vice President for the Global Large Law segment at Thomson Reuters. Now the Managing Director of BARBRI International, a global legal education company specialising in bar exam preparation and legal training, she works with the IBA to design specialist courses. Recognised for her collaborative approac
Inspirational legal women: Faiza Alleg Dolivet
Listen to international lawyer and mediator Faiza Alleg Dolivet sharing insights into her varied career, having lived and worked in many countries from Australia to the Congo, Tahiti to Switzerland. She has worked as an in-house legal director for a range of major companies, including Apple, Saipem and Boart Longyear. Now based with her family in France, her expertise covers many sectors and her
Inspirational legal women: Carola van den Bruinhorst
Carola van den Bruinhorst is a Dutch lawyer with over 20 years’ experience at Loyens & Loeff, and consultant in transformation processes and leadership development. Carola founded the firm's Hong Kong office and has also lived abroad in New York and Milan. Passionate about diversity, she co-founded the IBA’s Diversity & Inclusion Council and has held leadership roles in IBA. She is current
Inspirational legal women: a conversation with Deborah Enix Ross
An insightful discussion with IBA Secretary General, Deborah Enix-Ross, US lawyer at Debevoise and Plimpton LLP based at their New York office for over 20 years. She co-founded the Women's Interest Network within the American Bar Association's International Law Section, advocating for women's legal issues, something she has continued to do within the IBA. Deborah was President of the American Bar
Sustainable Law in Action: ESG Conference February 2024
In this special edition of the Sustainable Law in Action podcast, Sara Carnegie, IBA Legal Projects Director, and barrister Melissa Murphy KC, speak with expert panellists from the IBA’s 2024 ESG Conference about the critical role of lawyers in the ESG space, and the challenges and opportunities facing businesses and law firms alike in this evolving and increasingly politicised environment.
Sustainable Law in Action: A conversation with Spanish senior lawyer Marlen Estévez
In this episode, Beatriz Martínez, IBA LPRU Project Lawyer, speaks with Marlen Estévez, partner at the Spanish law firm RocaJunyent, about the ‘50:50 by 2030’ gender project, her thoughts and advice on how to navigate a career in law and the need for connecting female lawyers within the different sectors of the legal profession. Marlen combines her role as a lawyer with the presidency of Women in
A conversation with Georgia Dawson: how can we achieve true equality in the legal profession?
The International Bar Association (IBA) Legal Policy & Research Unit (LPRU) has published a new podcast on achieving gender equality at the highest levels of the legal profession, as part of their series on business and sustainability.In this episode, Sara Carnegie, IBA Legal Projects Director and Beatriz Martínez, project lawyer, speak with the Senior Partner of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Sustainable Law in Action: How to be a lawyer in wartime – an interview with Ukrainian lawyer Nazar Chernyavsky
In this episode, Sara Carnegie, IBA Legal Projects Director, speaks with Nazar Chernyavsky, partner at the Ukrainian law firm Sayenko Kharenko and Vice-Chair of the IBA Technology Law Committee, about how life and work has changed for Ukrainian lawyers since the start of the Russian invasion.
Sustainable law in action: Non-disclosure agreements – an interview with Zelda Perkins and Professor Julie Macfarlane
The International Bar Association (IBA) Legal Policy & Research Unit (LPRU) has published a new episode on the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), as part of their series of podcasts on business and sustainability.In this episode, Sara Carnegie, IBA Legal Projects Director, speaks to Zelda Perkins and Professor Julie Macfarlane about their experience with NDAs and the ‘Can’t Buy My Silenc
Sustainable finance – interview with BlackRock and experts from private practice
In this episode, Sara Carnegie, IBA Legal Projects Director and Maria Pia Sacco, LPRU Senior Project Lawyer, interview Michelle Edkins, Managing Director of BlackRock’s Investment Stewardship team, and Ariel Smilowitz, an associate on the Investment Stewardship team, to explore the role of investment stewardship in promoting sustainability. The conversation continues with Jeroen Ouwehand, Global
Sustainable mining: an interview with Anglo American, IBA President and experts from private practice
In this episode, Jonathan Hoch (Head of Legal and Commercial at Anglo American) speaks with Sara Carnegie (IBA Director of Legal Projects) and Maria Pia Sacco (LPRU Senior Project Lawyer) about how Anglo American has become a leader in sustainable mining, with sustainability increasingly becoming a competitive advantage. The conversation continues with IBA President, Sternford Moyo, who sheds ligh
Mental wellbeing: interview with Graham Boal QC
In this episode, Sara Carnegie, IBA Legal Projects Director, speaks to Graham Boal QC, former judge at the Old Bailey, about imposter syndrome and how success is not necessarily synonymous with greater confidence and wellbeing. They also focus on the devastating effects of alcoholism and depression, the stigma commonly associated with them and why promoting mental wellbeing is so important to ensu
Sustainable solutions: an interview with Marks & Spencer’s General Counsel and experts from private practice
The second episode of the series of podcasts on business and sustainability from the International Bar Association (IBA) Legal Policy & Research Unit (LPRU).In this episode, Nick Folland (General Counsel, Marks & Spencer) and Sarah Dickson (Deputy General Counsel, Marks & Spencer), Sara Carnegie (IBA Director of Legal Projects) and Maria Pia Sacco (LPRU Senior Project Lawyer), discuss
Professor John Ruggie on business and sustainability
The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) were unanimously endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council in 2011. Their aim was to identify and clarify policies and standards for business and human rights. While they do not have legally binding force, the political consensus behind their endorsement established them as the most authoritative global framework to address adverse busin
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