Ryerson University’s Institute for the Study of Corporate Social Responsibility is pleased to present an online interactive zoom session, Corporate Responsibility and the Law in Singapore, India, Hong Kong & Malaysia: An Evolving Story. In conversation with National University of Singapore (NUS) Associate Professor Ernest Lim (details below), on Monday, February 1, from 12 noon to 1:30 pm (Toronto time). In addressing their environmental, social and governance (ESG) impacts, corporations around the world are structured by a wide variety of laws. But exactly in what way this legal structuring takes place varies considerably from one jurisdiction to another. Ideally positioned to shed light on the distinctive and evolving corporate responsibility legal regimes of Singapore, India, Hong Kong and Malaysia is Professor Ernest Lim, of the National University of Singapore's Law Faculty. A graduate of the University of Oxford (DPhil and BCL), Harvard Law School (LLM) and NUS (LLB), Professor Lim's award-winning work on fiduciary duties and sustainability includes two major monographs from Cambridge University Press. Two questions Professor Lim will be exploring will be: (1) What are the problems of promoting sustainability in concentrated ownership jurisdictions such as the four common law Asian jurisdictions i.e. Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and India where state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are the most influential companies? and (2) What are the corporate mechanisms that can be used to promote sustainability? Professor Lim will be drawing on his Cambridge University Press book, Sustainability and Corporate Mechanisms in Asia where he examines ESG reporting; female directors; board structure; directors' duties; stewardship code; and liability on shareholders.

Moderating the session will be Dr. Kernaghan Webb, Director of the Ryerson CSR Institute and a Law and Business professor in Ryerson University's Ted Rogers School of Management who is also cross appointed to the Law Faculty.

The talk is co-sponsored by the Ryerson Corporate Social Responsibility Student Association, the Ryerson Commerce and Government Association, and the Ryerson Law and Business Student Association. Support for the "In conversation" sessions from the Trade Commissioner Service of Global Affairs Canada is also gratefully acknowledged. Although there is no cost for patching in for the zoom session, to attend you must first register by clicking on the green REGISTER button and following the instructions.

On Monday, February 1 at 12 noon (Toronto time) click HERE to patch in for the zoom session.

Information will be provided during the session re: how to submit questions.  

To learn more about and register for the online Ryerson University course on Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (last day to register is January 29), taught by Dr. Webb, click here. This course is open admission, with no prerequisites (there is a fee). Registrants in the course patch in from around the world at whatever time best suits them for each week's module (current registrants are located in Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa). Individuals taking the course come from government, the private sector and civil society. Students can just take this one course on its own, as a standalone, or as part of an assemblage of other courses. The course is an elective in Ryerson University's Chang School Certificate in Sustainability Management and Enterprise Process Excellence, but you do not need to be enrolled in this Sustainability Management Excellence program to take this single Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability course. A recognition of completion certificate of this course is available for students who fulfill the evaluative requirements. For sample videos of modules of the course click here.

Based on their Better World Ranking, Corporate Knights has ranked Ryerson University's Ted Rogers School of Management as being first overall in Canada for the Bachelor of Commerce (BComm) program, and third in Canada and eighth globally for the Ted Rogers MBA, for integrating sustainability knowledge and skills into business education.

Recent news: for an article by Professor Webb on Covid pivots, click here, and for a comment by Dr. Webb on the interconnections between CSR, philanthropy and health care, click here.

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