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On Friday 28 February, Julia shared some of the experiences and learnings from the 'Climate Conscious Lawyers' project at an International Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approach to Climate Change Education, organised by the Indo Dutch Research Center on Climate Change...

On Monday 16 December 2024, Julia Dehm and Zoe Nay shared the work and learnings of the 'Climate Conscious Lawyers' project at a roundtable on Climate Law Education hosted by the Law Schools of the University of Melbourne and the University of Cambridge. Overview...

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...

Climate change related risks, impacts, responses, and disputes are transforming all areas of legal knowledge and practice. There is an urgent need to transform legal education to produce more “climate conscious” legal professionals with the skills and knowledge to be...

As part of our ongoing work to support legal educators to mainstream climate change considerations in legal education we’re collecting law subject syllabi to create a resource ‘bank’ for legal educators. Have you got a syllabi you’d be happy to share? If you’ve...

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...