About
The Finance and Social Justice Project (the “Project”) was launched in 2018 by Dr Javier Solana with the support of an award from the Economic and Social Research Council Impact Acceleration Account, and a small grant from the University of Glasgow’s Learning and Teaching Development Fund. The Project is built on three premises:
- that finance has a significant influence on many social justice issues;
- that law plays a central role in finance and therefore has the potential to shape it; and
- that Law schools, as some of the largest pools of legal talent, can contribute to steering finance in a direction that helps support and promote social justice.
The Project aims to give students an opportunity to apply the theoretical knowledge they acquire in class to address problems of social justice that are happening in the world today. In doing so, the Project aims to support individuals and organisations working towards the protection and promotion of social justice; but, at its core, the Project has a pedagogical mission: to broaden students’ understanding of the role that law plays in the issues they are preoccupied with, and to put them in a position where their work and their skills can lead to positive change.
The Project ran as an extra-curricular activity between 2018 and 2021. Since the academic year 2021/22, the Project has run as a credit-bearing course in the LLM programmes.