Book Title: Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer
Subtitle: Climate Change and the Australian Legal System
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Book Description: As the world grapples with the escalating challenges of climate change, the legal profession finds itself at a crossroads. Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer: Climate and the Australian Legal System provides an original, innovative and accessible analysis of the impact of climate change on legal doctrines and principles.
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As the world grapples with the escalating challenges of climate change, the legal profession finds itself at a crossroads. Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer: Climate and the Australian Legal System provides an original, innovative and accessible analysis of the impact of climate change on legal doctrines and principles. It offers an overview of cutting-edge developments and how the transition to a low-carbon society is reshaping a wide range of laws, from corporate to criminal law, and beyond. This valuable new resource supports legal professionals, law students, and legal educators to understand current legal challenges – providing the know-how to strategically navigate, and positively influence, the development of law to respond to a climate changed world. The book delivers a transformative approach to legal education: equipping law students to become climate-conscious professionals with the confidence and competency to deliver legal solutions to a diverse range of clients, and promote climate justice across diverse communities.
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Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer Copyright © 2024 by La Trobe University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer Copyright © 2024 by La Trobe University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
This book was published by La Trobe University via the Council of Australian University Librarians Open Educational Resources Collective. The online version is available at https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/climate-conscious-lawyer.
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Recommended citation: Dehm, J., Graham, N. & Nay, Z. (2023). Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer. La Trobe University. https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/climate-conscious-lawyer.
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