On Wednesday 30 October the Australian Law Librarians’ Association (ALLA) and the Australasian Open Educational Practice Special Interest Group hosted a webinar on “Creating Open ‘Living Textbooks’ for a Climate Conscious Legal Education”
Speakers:
Julia Dehm (OER co-editor), Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow, School of Law, La Trobe University.
Steven Chang, Coordinator of Open Education & Scholarship, La Trobe University.
Heidi Butters-Stabb, Senior Learning Librarian (Law), La Trobe University.
Webinar description:
As the world grapples with the escalating challenges of climate change, the legal profession finds itself at a crossroads. There is an urgent need to appropriately support and resource legal professionals to navigate the ways climate change is transforming the legal landscape to ensure they have the relevant expertise and competencies to deliver legal services and promote climate justice to a wide range of clients in a climate transformed world.
This seminar will explore how legal practitioners, legal academics, law librarians, and open education specialists have collaborated to create a ‘living’ open educational resource (OER) to advance these objectives. Our panel will discuss how we created Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer: Climate Change and the Australian Legal System (La Trobe eBureau, 2024) and how these ‘Third Space’ cross-disciplinary collaborations can tackle large problems at scale in an environment of rapid legal changes and urgent advocacy for change.