Next-Generation Masterclass

New Economy Law: Coliberatory Municipalism for System Change

11th December 2021

02:00 PM (BST) / 9:00 AM (EST)

Key Benefits

Key benefits

Building shared understandings sourced in marginalised experience, for transforming basic notions of what a political economy is for, and whom and what it should serve.
Hopefully meet like-minded people/networking.
Take something away for your own practice.

Introduction

“The problem is we don’t understand the problem” (Paul MacReady, engineer). Facing multiple crises, how can lawyers re-envision their role as ‘healers of community woes’? This workshop introduces a concept (institutionalised inequality) and a practice (coliberatory municipalism) and case studies, arguing for system change through legal intervention at the hyper-local level: to mobilise through generating a sense of economic suffrage from those who most often have least agency to make change happen.

Who Should Attened

Lawyers, legal students and practitioners, public law & town & country planning practitioners, new economy practitioners, solidarity economy practitioners, anyone who has experienced marginalisation/exclusion in their life and wish to contribute to "de-marginalising" social/economic experience.

Mothiur Rahman

About Mothiur Rahman

Mothiur is the founder of New Economy Law. He trained at a top 20 global law firm and worked for 7 years in a top 50 London law firm specialising in planning, environmental and public law related matters, with a focus on public authorities and the marine environment.

Meeting like-minded lawyers through “The Conscious Lawyer” magazine gave him the courage to take the plunge to shape a legal practice of his own making, one that would enable him to bring his passions for creativity, ecology and spirituality into his practice.

Mothiur is someone who engages deeply with clients to find out the values that underlie their work and aspirations, identifies their goals with them and provides the legal, commercial and self-leadership support they need to help them create a resilient path towards achieving their goals. He is happiest working in freelance networks and co-operatives, in collaboration with other professionals and lawyers to help meet goals and find context-driven solutions for clients.