Abstract
The Monash University, Climate Justice Clinic (CJC) - a scalable and practical solution for the education and development of climate justice law and movement lawyering. Providing climate justice specific clinical legal education, the CJC offers legal support to a number of leading national organisations within the climate justice movement. The CJC aims to improve and shape Australia’s law, policy and action on Climate Change. The CJC is led and supervised by two experienced solicitors form leading national/international law firms, providing a unique opportunity for university law students to be exposed to diverse actors within the Australian climate justice movement, developments in climate litigation, and the intersection of law and policy within the broader socio-political context. The CJC is a unique, scalable and an adaptable solution to practical legal education within the Climate Justice Movement. CJC aims to ensure students enter their legal careers ready and able to assist in responding to the climate crisis. Topics considered include: (1) The need for legal education to cultivate a mature, compassionate, and resilient mindset in students to allow them to pursue climate justice in a healthy and sustainable fashion. (2) the benefits of the CJC’s “movement lawyering” approach; (3) importance of inter-disciplinary partnerships within the existing environmental movement; (4) examples of legal work undertaken by the CJC to date and its impact on past students; (5) Importance of in-depth reading and guest speaker program to support students’ deepening understanding of the climate crisis and the various roles the law has within that movement.
Presenters
Hubert AlgieClinical Supervisor, Law Faculty, Monash University, Victoria, Australia Isobel Graham
Student, Bachelor of Laws/Arts, Monash University, Australia Emma Jackson
Student, Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and Bachelor of Science, Monash University, Victoria, Australia Malvina Hagedorn
Russell Kennedy Lawyers, Australia
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Technical, Political, and Social Responses
KEYWORDS
CLINICAL LEGAL EDUCATION, CLIMATE JUSTICE EDUCATION, CLIMATE MOVEMENT LEGAL SERVICES
