News & Events

On 9 August 2024, Heidi Butters-Stabb, Senior Learning Librarian at La Trobe University Library, presented to the Australian Law Librarians Association conference in Adelaide on “Mainstreaming Climate Change in Legal Education using OER and Open Textbooks”. The ten...

A soft launch of Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer was held at the Australian Law Academics Association annual meeting in Adelaide, 3-5 July 2024. Professors Nicole Graham, Kate Galloway and Margaret Davis presented on a panel entitled "Becoming a Climate Conscious...

We are excited to share the publication of a new open access book, Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer: Climate Change and the Australian Legal System, edited by Julia Dehm (La Trobe Law School, La Trobe University), Nicole Graham (The University of Sydney Law...

Wednesday 12 June 2024, Dr Julia Dehm gave a presentation on Teaching Climate Change in Legal Education”, to the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research.  It prompted a lively discussion about challenges of mainstreaming climate change in legal education in...

On Monday 13 May 2024, we held an online workshop for Tranche 2 and 3 authors of Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer: Climate Change and the Australian Legal System (La Trobe eBureau, 2024). The workshops provide an opportunity for the authors of chapter to present...

On Monday 6 May 2024, Steph Houghton and Julia Dehm spoke at the monthly La Trobe Climate Network seminars about climate change and transformative pedagogy in higher education. Steph presentation described the process of collaborating with other academics in the...

On Monday 29 April 2024, we held an online workshop for Tranche 2 and 3 authors of Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer: Climate Change and the Australian Legal System (La Trobe eBureau, 2024). The workshops provide an opportunity for the authors of chapter to present...

On Thursday 11 April 2024, Dr Julia Dehm presented on "Mainstreaming Climate Change in Australia’s Law Curriculum" as part of a workshop on "Teaching Law & Policy in the Anthropocene", convened by Professor Phillip Paiment (Tilburg). The workshop was part...

On 27 March 2024, Dr Julia Dehm gave a seminar on "Mainstreaming Climate Change in Australian Legal Education" at the University of California (Irvine). The seminar was followed by engaged discussion about the challenges in mainstreaming climate change in legal...

Half a day at the annual Frontiers of Environmental Law Colloquium held at the University of Queensland on 8 & 9 February 2024 was dedicated to discussing mainstreaming climate change in the legal curriculum.  The session on “Embedding climate change and...