2nd US-CEE Connection Weekend: US and EU Perspectives on ESG: Towards a sustainable world or a dangerous utopia?
New event by Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University in Kraków
and Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America in Washington D.C.
Participation is free of charge but demands upfront registration under the
link as well as below (same link as last year).
Kraków, 28-29 June 2024
Panel #1: Conceptualizing ESG and Sustainability
This panel will address multiple perspectives on defining sustainability, e.g., philosophical, religious, and international law perspectives on sustainable development. Panelists also will consider overarching questions like what is/should be encompassed in ESG, purposes sought to be served, and relative effectiveness of contemplated approaches in achieving those goals.
Panel #2: Differing EU and US Approaches to Promoting ESG goals
Many US lawyers are not aware of what the EU is doing re ESG. Conversely, some in the EU are surprised by currents in the US including efforts within some states to block ESG directed investment, e.g., in pension funds. This panel will provide the basics of where each side “is” and explore the differing premises and politics that underlie differing approaches.
Panel #3 Competing visions of corporate interests and ESG goals
It is important to focus on competing visions regarding the purpose of regulation in capital markets and debates about corporate purpose in smaller incorporated ventures as well. Discussion during this panel will include debate about relative effectiveness of differing approaches to corporations to push toward ESG goals.
Panel #4: Law and Business Perspectives on Practice Challenges in Meeting ESG Requirements
This panel will build on the first three panels and talk about practical consequences for businesses and their in-house and outside counsel who must deal with compliance with current and contemplated regimes in the US and EU.
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United States and Central & Eastern Europe (US-CEE) Connection Weekend: The Future of Transatlantic Investment
Event by Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University in Kraków
and Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America in Washington D.C.
Participation is free of charge but demands upfront registration under the link below.
Kraków, 16-17 June 2023
From Friday afternoon June 16 through Saturday afternoon June 17, UJ and CUA will host lawyers, business people, government officials to consider the past, present, and future potential of investment flows between North America and Poland, and Poland as a gateway to the region.
An opening panel will consider the knowledge and skills that lawyers need to be effective in US-CEE transactions followed by a keynote address on the “big picture” in transatlantic investment.
Saturday panels will look at benefits, obstacles, and overcoming obstacles to North American investment in CEE and CEE investment in North America. The closing address will consider investment developments during the Ukrainian war and the transatlantic investments’ potential in the rebuilding of Ukraine.
Programs will take place in the Jagiellonian University’s beautiful Collegium Novum just off the main square with a Friday reception and Saturday lunch in other historic Kraków venues.
