Legal Innovations for Multi-Stakeholder Governance - a series by UKSCS - Seminar 3 of 9.
Channel: UK Society for Co-operative Studies
Date: 07/11/2022

This seminar, organised by the UK Society of Co-operative Studies (UKSCS) with the EMES International Research Network (EMES) and European Research Institute for Co-operative and Social Enterprise (EURICSE), took place on 14th July 2021. It was hosted and recorded by the FairShares Institute for Co-operative Social Entrepreneurship at Sheffield Hallam University. 

The theme of the seminar was Legal Innovations for Multi-Stakeholder Governance. How can companies, co-operative societies, partnerships and associations be re-configured to support new cooperativism? Following new classification work by the ICA (Eum, Carini, Bouchard, 2019), how can solidarity co-operatives be structured legally? What legal and governance innovations have emerged to support multi-stakeholding and community involvement? What legal and governance innovations are emerging to support the alignment of co-operatives with sustainable development?

Facilitator – Silvia Sacchetti
Panel Speakers – Ian Adderley, Rory Ridley-Duff
Technical Support: Rory Ridley-Duff