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Encouraging diversity in the legal sector
Full text linkIn 2021 Carol Withey represented the University of Greenwich on the 'This is Purpose' Project: 'Levelling Up Law'. The 15 participating city law firms revealed recruitment and progression statistics evidencing a shocking lack of diversity within the law. In one firm, of the 151 staff surveyed, only 27% of partners were women, with even less at senior level. Over 79% of lawyers were white, and of the 72% of lawyers educated in the UK, only 52% had attended state schools. Only 46% of vacation schemes places were taken by state school educated university students. The above project inspired Carol to create an ED&I /skills initiative for University of Greenwich law students: The Law Employment Mentor Programme. This programme is extra-curricular in order to maximise participation. It consists of subject-based law and practice mentor schemes delivered in collaboration with law firms and legal organisations. In 2022, Carol started supporting law colleagues to develop mentor schemes relating to their own legal discipline and area of expertise. In 2023 over 70 law students, and over 40 lawyers are participating in the Mentor Programme. The programme has now been renamed the Law and Criminology Employment Mentor Programme and has been extended to criminology students, with the first scheme for criminology students piloting this year. Further schemes are being developed. This presentation will explain how the Law Employment Mentor Programme works. The model adopted is inclusive, and students selected represent our diverse cohort of students at Greenwich. The programme is also designed to bridge the gap between academic theory and legal practice, and the model can be adapted to other disciplines. Trudie Amarh and Dr Renginee Pillay will join Carol to provide reflections on their own mentor schemes
The Changing Nature of Corporate Social Responsibility
No full textCorporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has increasingly been promoted as an important mechanism for furthering economic and social development goals in developing countries. In such an optimistic climate, questions arise as to whether CSR can bear the weight of the increasing expectations being heaped on its shoulders. This book examines the changing nature of corporate social responsibility as it has been conceived over the past eighty years. It considers the historical and socio-legal developments of the idea of CSR and the various conceptions of the corporation which underlie different realisations of CSR. The book explores the model of CSR deployed in the developing world as well as the links between CSR and development. Renginee Pillay uses Mauritius as a case-study, demonstrating how CSR and corporate governance issues have come to the fore of political, financial and legal landscapes. Drawing on empirical research, the book examines how the first legislation of its kind has been implemented in Mauritius, and analyses its impact on development. In its work to evaluate the contribution CSR can make to development, this book will be of great use and interest to students and researchers of business and company law, business ethics, and development studies
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No full textChanging ideas about corporate social responsibility CSR and development in Context: The case of Mauritius
Full text linkThe idea of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has risen to prominence with remarkable rapidity in recent years. Although the literature on contemporary CSR has concentrated almost exclusively on advanced capitalist countries, CSR is increasingly being promoted in a developing country context as an important mechanism for furthering economic and social development goals. Yet, there is currently very limited research about whether contemporary CSR can in fact assist in development. This thesis seeks to contribute to the body of knowledge in this area. The first, theoretical, part of the thesis explores changing ideas about the nature of CSR, and argues that contemporary ideas of CSR are ameliorative in nature, marking a fundamental shift from the original, transformative, idea of the `socially responsible corporation', which emerged in the 1920s and 30s. The thesis also argues that with their emphasis on self-regulation and voluntarism, contemporary ideas about CSR are very much part and parcel of contemporary neo-liberal ideas about economic and social organisation. The second, empirical, part of the thesis seeks to investigate whether the model of CSR being deployed in the developing world is indeed a conservative one and, if so, whether this conservatism is likely to render it ineffectual. It explores how CSR is understood by its practitioners - company executives and other key players - in Mauritius, focusing on the impact of the concept on executive opinion by examining their rhetorical commitment to CSR as well as what that entailed in practice. The research suggests that executives in Mauritius tend to equate CSR with corporate philanthropy, which casts doubt on its ability to make a significant contribution to development. In light of the arguments developed in the thesis, one of its main conclusions is that a return to the earlier, more radical, conception of CSR is needed if CSR is really to make an important contribution to development
Changing ideas about corporate social responsibility CSR and development in Context : The case of Mauritius
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Resistances to anti-racist and decolonial work in HE: reflections on discomfort
Full text linkThis opinion piece uses anecdotal theory to reflect on student and staff resistance that the authors have encountered as academics conducting research on anti-racist and decolonial pedagogies in HE. We argue that such resistance is rooted in the hegemonic logics of disciplinary canons, pedagogical norms and the university, which, when challenged and disrupted, can result in feelings of discomfort. In this context, we recommend the creation of spaces to experience and learn from discomfort both productively and safely, by means of an embodied approach
The limits to self-regulation and voluntarism: from corporate social responsibility to corporate accountability
Full text linkIn this article Dr Renginee G. Pillay (IALS Visiting Fellow 2015; Lecturer in Law, University of Surrey) examines the development and practice of corporate social responsibility (CSR), self-regulation and accountability in business and corporate environments
Adaeze Okoye, legal approaches and corporate social responsibility: towards a Llewellyn’s law-jobs approach
No full textGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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