Conferences & Events

Visit the Grunin Center Events page to learn about upcoming events. Please see below to learn about the type of events the Grunin Center hosts. 

Annual Conference

The Annual Conference on Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing – in the US and Beyond, co-organized by the Grunin Center and the Impact Investing Legal Working Group, takes place at NYU Law. Attended by students, lawyers and other stakeholders from across the globe, this leading conference explores salient legal, ethical, and social themes affecting the fields of social entrepreneurship and impact investing. 

The 2025 Conference will take place June 3 - 4 at NYU Law. Stay tuned for more information. 

To learn about past conferences, please visit here

Webinars

The Grunin Center collaborates with local and regional partners to host webinar series on building a legal practice for impact investing. Each webinar series builds on our Annual Conference programming and provides participants across a particular region with an opportunity to learn from international and local legal experts in impact investing. The Grunin Center expands its webinar offerings annually and across various regions to support the growth of a global community of legal practice.

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Legal Scholars Convening

The Grunin Center hosts an Legal Scholars Convening that advances legal scholarship in the fields of social entrepreneurship and impact investing by bringing together legal scholars who are writing and researching in these fields and introducing them to the legal/policy challenges and opportunities that legal practitioners are facing.

Law school faculty (fulltime and adjunct), other academic personnel working fulltime in law schools who are engaged in legal scholarship, practitioners who are engaging in legal scholarship, and professors who are teaching law in other schools yet are engaging in legal scholarship are invited to join this convening.

The 2025 Legal Scholars Convening will take place June 5. Please stay tuned for more information.