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<div style="margin:14pt 0px"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#666666" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt"><b>Presenter: Bronwen Morgan, University of New South Wales</b></span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:14pt 0px"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#666666" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt"><b>Title: The Diverse Legalities of the Sharing Economy </b></span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:14pt 0px"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#666666" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt"><b>Date: Friday, 1 May 2015 </b></span></font></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin:14pt 0px"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#666666" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt">This
presentation seeks to bring into dialogue two previously unrelated
areas of scholarship: legal consciousness and diverse economies, as a
way of illuminating the analysis of community-level action for
sustainability, including its troubled relationship to the emerging
'sharing economy'. The presentation draws indirectly on
a comparative UK-Australia study of 'grassroots innovations’ (“networks
of activists and organisations generating novel bottom–up solutions for
sustainable development") in food, energy and transport. These
initiatives stress, to varying degrees, civil society,
activism, localism and community even while tensions emerge with
particular forms of the sharing economy that enact and rely on much more
extractive modes of 'business-as-usual'.</span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:14pt 0px"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#666666" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt">After
a brief elaboration of the points of intersection between legal
consciousness
and diverse economies literature, the presentation explores the diverse
legalities that can underpin Botsman and Roger's four elements of a
collaborative economy (belief in the commons, trust between strangers,
idle capacity and critical mass). I link these
four elements to struggles over 'transactional legalities' related to
the prevention of harm, the blurred line between gift and contract, and
the choice of organisational legal entity. </span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:14pt 0px"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#666666" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt">Overall,
I argue that struggles over transactional legalities are a neglected
site of activism for sustainability. Legality need not shoehorn the
sharing economy into an extractive logic, although the potential to do
so is powerful. Recognising and stressing the diversity of both economic
life and forms of law opens up an understanding
of 'radical transactionalism', where legal building blocks of property
and capital can be reimagined and reconfigured.</span></font></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin:14pt 0px 7.5pt"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#666666" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt"><b>Bronwen Morgan </b></span></font><font color="#666666" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt">joined
UNSW
Law School in October 2012, having taught at the University of Bristol,
UK for seven years as Professor of Socio-legal Studies. Prior to
Bristol, taught at the University of Oxford in association with the
Centre for Socio-legal Studies, and both St Hilda’s
College and Wadham College. A very long time ago, she taught at the
University of Sydney Law School.</span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:14pt 0px 7.5pt"><font face="Times New Roman,serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#666666" face="Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt">Bronwen’s
research has long focused on transformations of the regulatory
state in both national-comparative and transnational contexts but more
recently, she become particularly interested in the interaction between
regulation and rights, especially in the context of social activism and
claims for social and economic human rights.
These lines of interest can be seen in her two most recent projects: one
on the rise of the regulatory state in the developing world, and
another on access to urban water services in comparative perspective.</span></font></span></font></div>
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Bronwen is working on two research projects: one on
legal support structures for social activists and social enterprises
responding to climate change in Australia and the UK, and a second
project (with Navroz Dubash, funded by the International Development
Research Centre of Canada) on sub-national and local
dimensions of climate change policy in developing countries,
particularly India and South Africa.</span></font></span></font></div>
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