Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer: Climate and the Australian Legal System
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Anna Huggins, Queensland University of Technology
Ellen Hawkins, Queensland University of Technology
Steven Tudor, La Trobe University
Nicole Rogers, Bond University
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ISBN 13: 9780645838848
Publisher: La Trobe University
Language: English
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Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Chapter 1: Legal Education in a Changing Climate
- Chapter 2: Climate Change and Administrative Law
- Chapter 3: Climate Change and Criminal Law
- Versioning History
- Review Statement
- Glossary
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Submit ancillary resourceAbout the Book
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.
About the Contributors
Authors
Anna Huggins is a Professor and the Director of Studies in the School of Law at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Anna teaches administrative law and her research examines environmental regulation and compliance at the international and domestic levels. Her book, Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Compliance: The Benefits of Administrative Procedures, was published by Routledge in 2018. Her latest co-authored book, Natural Capital, Agriculture and the Law, was published by Edward Elgar in 2022. Anna holds a PhD from the University of New South Wales, for which she received a PhD Excellence Award.
Ellen Hawkins is a Law and Environmental Science graduate from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Ellen has a strong research interest in environmental law and has worked as a research assistant on various environmental law projects. Ellen has published previously on the topics of transboundary air pollution and has a forthcoming publication on the topic of international climate change litigation under the World Heritage Convention.
Steven Tudor is a senior lecturer in the Law School at La Trobe University. He teaches mostly in criminal law and related areas, including the elective Crime and the Environment. His research interests mostly concern the philosophical aspects of criminal law. His publications include Remorse: Psychological and Jurisprudential Perspectives (2010) (co-authored with Michael Proeve), Remorse and Criminal Justice: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Routledge: London, 2021) (co-edited with Richard Weisman, Michael Proeve and Kate Rossmanith), Criminal Investigation and Procedure: The Law in Victoria, 1st ed. (Sydney: Thomson Reuters, 2009) (co-authored with Christopher Corns), and Waller and Williams Criminal Law Text and Cases 14th ed (LexisNexis: Sydney, 2020) (co-authored with Penny Crofts, Thomas Crofts, Stephen Gray, Tyrone Kirchengast and Bronwyn Naylor), as well as various articles in academic journals.
Nicole Rogers is a professor of climate law at Bond University, where she teaches into a world first climate law degree. She has researched and published widely in the areas of climate law, wild law, interdisciplinary climate studies, and performance studies theory and the law. In 2014, she instigated and then co-led the Wild Law Judgment project, which culminated in an edited publication of collected wild law judgments. Her 2019 monograph, Law, Fiction and Activism in a Time of Climate Change, was shortlisted for the 2020 Hart-SLSA Book Prize and the inaugural 2020 Australian Legal Research Book Award. Her latest co-edited book, The Anthropocene Judgments Project: Futureproofing the Common Law (Routledge, 2023), is the product of an international, interdisciplinary, collaborative project in which participants were tasked with writing the judgments of the future.