We are excited to share the publication of the Tranche 2 of our the open access book, Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer: Climate Change and the Australian Legal System, edited by Julia Dehm (La Trobe University), Nicole Graham (University of Sydney), and Zoe Nay (University of Melbourne), and published by La Trobe eBureau.
The book is available through the La Trobe eBureau website.
The chapters in tranche 2 are:
- Legal Professional Responsibilities (Ethics) by Vivien Holmes (ANU) and Julian Webb (UMelb)
- Tort Law by Joanna Kyriakakis (Monash)
- Civil Procedure by Asha Keaney (EDO)
- International Law by Tim Stephens (USyd)
- Consumer Law by Christine Parker (UMelb) and Hope Johnson (QUT)
- Legal Theory by Kathleen Birrell (La Trobe) and Margaret Davis (Flinders)
- Public Interest Litigation by Justice Brian Preston AO FRSN SC (NSW Land & Environment Court).
The first three chapters already published mid-2024 are:
- Introduction (which explains and contextualises climate change in relation to law) by Julia Dehm (La Trobe), Nicole Graham (USydney) and Zoe Nay (UMelb)
- Criminal Law and Procedure by Steven Tudor (La Trobe) and Nicole Rogers (Bond)
- Administrative Law by Anna Huggins (QUT) and Ellen Hawkins (QUT).
As the world grapples with the escalating challenges of climate change, the legal profession finds itself at a cross roads. This book provides an original, innovative, and accessible analysis of the impact of climate change on legal doctrines and principles. It offers an overview of cutting-edge developments and how the transition to a low-carbon society is reshaping a wide range of laws, from corporate to criminal law, and beyond. It aims to support legal professionals, law students, and legal educators to understand current legal challenges – providing the know-how to strategically navigate, and positively influence, the development of law to respond to a climate changed world.
The book will include 25 confirmed chapters, by 46 authors from 18 law schools across Australia as well as practitioners at the Environmental Defenders Office, and the Chief Judge of the Land and Environment Court of NSW. The chapters will address all compulsory law subjects, as well as numerous popular electives.
A third and fourth tranche will be published later this year and include chapters on: Indigenous Peoples and the Law, Public Law, Constitutional Law, Company Law, Property Law, Equity and Trusts, Evidence Law, Contract Law, Human Rights Law, Labour Law, Health Law, Intellectual Property and Technology Law, Clinical Legal Education, Tax Law, Strata Title; Migration and Refugee Law.
For more information about the book and resources about our broader work to mainstream climate change in legal education please see the Climate Conscious Lawyers website.
We believe this book will be a valuable resource for law schools across Australia. Please do share this news with colleagues teaching these subjects and encourage them to use it this book in their teaching!