News & Events

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...

The second Law & Sustainability: Transforming Pathways in the Asia Pacific Region Conference, was hosted this year by Sydney Law School on 11 & 12 July 2024. The Plenary Session on ‘Sustainability and Legal Education’ began with a powerful keynote...

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...