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Social Enterprise
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The CLS Blue Sky Blog
What Start-Up Lawyers Should Know About Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy has long been regarded as a gloomy area of law, one that fits uneasily with the heady optimism usually associated with start-ups. At the same time, start-up lawyers need…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Tyler, Regulation and Incentives for “Social Entereprise” in the United States
John Tyler (Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation) has published Regulation and Incentives for “Social Enterprise” in the United States: But First Greater and More Substantive Differentiation, Nonprofit Policy Forum (2025). Here…
Pandora's Blog
A Conversation with Famin Ahmed: Famin Makes, Next Steps, and How to Use Your Career for Good
By Charlene
Famin is a UQ Law alumni and a John Monash Scholar at the Blavatnick School of Government at the University of Oxford. After finishing her law degree, Famin worked as…
The CLS Blue Sky Blog
Corporate Purpose, Social Enterprise Law, and the Future of the Corporation: A UK Perspective
By J S Liptrap
The U.S. debate on corporate purpose centers on whether corporations should prioritize shareholders’ interests over the well-being of non-shareholder constituencies. Though the debate dates back at least to the 1930’s…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Plerhoples: Social Enterprises and Benefit Corporations in the United States
Alicia E. Plerhoples (Georgetown) has written Social Enterprises and Benefit Corporations in the United States, which has been published in The International Handbook of Social Enterprise Law (Springer 2023). Here…
Aliant Blog
Benefit Corporations: Italy and France Pioneers in Europe
By Gary Cohen
Benefit corporations represent a new business model capable to integrate the profit-oriented economic activity with the purpose of common benefit, producing in the long-term positive effects on territories and the…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
The Future of Impact Investing
Last week, I had the great honor of serving as the keynote speaker for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s Nonprofit Conference. My presentation addressed the rise of impact investing or what…
Nonprofit Law Blog
Alternatives to Starting a Nonprofit
Many well-intended individuals who want to work on addressing public, social, and environmental needs think about starting a charitable nonprofit. Founding and leading a nonprofit may be viewed as a…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Goldeberg & LeClair: A proposal for a new type of charitable-business structure
Robert S. Goldberg (Adelphi University) and Mark S. LeClair (Fairfield University) have published A proposal for a new type of charitable-business structure: the donor-investor organization in the Journal of Sustainable…
The CLS Blue Sky Blog
A Social Enterprise Company in EU Organizational Law?
By J S Liptrap
In my recent article, A Social Enterprise Company in EU Organizational Law?, I discuss the present and future regulation of social enterprises in Europe. For the moment, social enterprises –…