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Thank you for all your support for and participation in our ongoing work to mainstream climate change in legal education in 2024! 2024 has been a huge year: we published the first tranche of Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer: Climate Change and the Australian...

The Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer Open Textbook Project team - Hugh Rundle, Dr Julia Dehm, Steven Chang, Heidi Butters-Stabb, Sebastian Kainey and Zoe Nay - was awarded a La Trobe University Vice-Chancellor's Cultural Qualities Awards - Connected.Citation: The...

On Friday 22 November 2024, Dr Julia Dehm gave a presentation on "Climate Conscious Lawyering and the "Unwritten Rules" of Academia" at the 3rd Annual Early Career Law Academic Forum hosted by Australasian Law Academics Association, La Trobe Law School, RMIT Graduate...

We are delighted to published a chapter, "Catalysing Climate Conscious Legal Education Through Open Education Resources" by Julia Dehm, Zoe Nay, Nicole Graham and Steven Chang in Open Education Down UndOER: Australasian Case Studies edited by Ash Barber, Dr Mais...

On Wednesday 13 November, Zoe Nay presented a paper "Transforming Legal Education to Produce Climate Conscious Graduates: Integrating Open Educational Resources" at the OE Global Conference held in Brisbane 13-15 November 2024. Abstract: The urgency of addressing...

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...

The workshop on "Climate Change and Legal Education: the Why, the How and the Priestly" held on Thursday 7 – Friday 8 November at Sydney Law School brought together over 30 legal educators from across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand to discuss approaches to...

On Thursday 24 October, Dr Julia Dehm spoke about the Climate Conscious Lawyers project at the launch event of the Climate Change Section of the Victorian Commercial Bar Association. The event was chaired by Tomo Boston KC and the speakers were Prof Jacqueline Peel...

Dr Julia Dehm recorded a "lightening talk" on "Open Education Resources for Climate Conscious Lawyers" that was part of the program for the Open Education Conference held on 8-10 October 2024.  You can watch the talk here:...

On 6th September, Professor Nicole Graham (University of Sydney) and Professor Amanda Kennedy (QUT) led and facilitated a one-day workshop for legal educators from the University of Adelaide and UniSA about embedding climate change in the new LLB (Hons) curriculum...