Overview

In this course you will examine how climate change intersects with lawyering across public, private and community legal practice. It is increasingly recognised that all lawyers must take a climate conscious approach to their legal practice. Lawyers need to understand how climate change and its consequences are creating injustices, and … For more content click the Read More button below. Drawing on the expertise of multiple teachers from across the Faculty, classes will cover a broad range of climate-related aspects of domestic and international law, and legal policy and justice issues connected to climate change. Topics may include: just transitions energy transitionsclimate impacts on lower socio-economic populations, elderly people and people living with disabilityIndigenous lands, communities, science and researchecocide, climate apartheid and victimisation of advocates responding to climate risks climate mobility/displacementsea-level rise and ocean acidificationloss and damage and adaptation mitigating climate impacts carbon taxes and dividendsurban sustainability, planning and new economieswater, agricultural, ecosystems and their nexus with climate change legal innovations duties of caredirector’s duties, financial disclosures and institutional investorsclimate litigation and human rights, children, and future generationsopen research and sharing sustainable innovation You will reflect on new and developing career pathways for climate conscious lawyers, and contrast the opportunities and challenges of incremental versus systemic legal changes in response to climate change.

Conditions for Enrolment

Completion of 78UOC in LAWS courses.

Course Attributes

Offered irregularly or alternate years

Delivery

In-person - Intensive
In-person - Standard (usually weekly or fortnightly)

Fees

Pre-2019 Handbook Editions

Access past handbook editions (2018 and prior)