LW | Recommends

LW Recommends

LW | Recommends

PODCAST

How to be a lawyer in wartime – an interview with Ukrainian lawyer Nazar Chernyavsky The International Bar Association (IBA) Legal Policy & Research Unit (LPRU) has published a new episode. Sara Carnegie, IBA Legal Projects Director, speaks with Nazar Chernyavsky, partner at the Ukrainian law firm Sayenko Kharenko and Vice-Chair of the IBA Technology Law Committee, about how life and work has changed for Ukrainian lawyers since the start of the Russian invasion.

The invasion forced law firms in Ukraine to adapt their focus, while on a global scale, international law firms have faced ethical choices, with an unprecedented number pulling out of Russia and cutting all ties with clients connected to the Kremlin. The global legal profession must now reckon with how to move forward in this new reality. Nazar discusses the practical challenges forced on Ukrainian firms by the conflict and how, worldwide, the war should alter law firms’ future ESG policies and the strategies by which lawyers can encourage divestment from resources originating in authoritarian regimes.

Listen to the Sustainable Law in Action series on Spotify.

BOOK

A Women’s Game

Susan Wrack has had a lifelong love of football. She played at school although realised that others expected her to ‘grow out of it’. She never did and by 2017 she was commissioned to begin the Women’s Football column for The Guardian. In this book she captures some of the history of the game, the British Ladies Football Club that played in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century which led to a fateful game in 1920 attended by 53,000 paying spectators. The response from the Football Association was to declare the game ‘quite unsuitable for females’ and prohibit men’s clubs from allowing women to play on their fields, effectively, a ban.

Although most women start sport for enjoyment, Wrack declares ‘the mere act of playing football is unequivocally a feminist one’ as it contradicts all the dictates of society of how women are expected to behave.

A Woman’s Game by Suzanne Wrack | Books & Shop | Faber.

EVENT

LawCare Conference Wednesday 28th September. The programme has three main tracks:

Starting out – addressing the particular needs of junior lawyers

Innovation – in supervision and management L

eading – creating cultures where people feel valued and belong

For more information and to book tickets, which cost £100, visit www.lawcare.org.uk/conference. ■

FILM

Hidden Figures | Hidden Figures (2016) – IMDb This is an extraordinary story of three African-American women who worked on the space programme at NASA. Despite the discrimination against married women generally and against these women, in particular, they were employed due to the shortage of able mathematicians. The real women Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan and Miriam Daniel Mann have all been recognised for their contribution and there are lots of articles documenting the period they were working.

Hidden Figures: How Nasa hired its first black women ‘computers’ – BBC News. ■

TED TALK

Sally Penni MBE

Sally Penni MBE: Can Love Conquer Hate?

Our editorial board member, Sally Penni MBE and barrister’s TED talk Can love conquer Hate? Can we turn hate into Love? Can we change hate into love? ■