News & Events
OE Global presentation
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...
Creating Open ‘Living Textbooks’ for a Climate Conscious Legal Education webinar
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...
Climate Change and Legal Education: the Why, the How and the Priestly
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...
Litigation and lawyering in a climate changing world
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...
Open Education Conference 2024
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:...
University of Adelaide and UniSA Workshop
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...
Law & Sustainability Conference
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...
Australian Law Librarians Association conference
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...
Australasian Law Academics Association Book Launch
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...
Book Launch!
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...