Teaching and Learning Climate and Environmental Justice in Law Schools

About the Authors

Preface

Richard Grimes, Stephen Levett, Rebecca Samaras and Rebecca Williams

Foreword

PART 1 The Case for Including Climate and Environmental Justice in the Law School Portfolio

1 Climate Change and the Environment: The Educational Imperative

Richard Grimes

2 Locating the Learning and Teaching of Climate and Environmental Justice in the Law School Portfolio: 'Best Practice' and Logistics

Rebecca Samaras

3 Climate Lawyering and Legal Education: Decolonizing the Experience

Ashley Nemeth and Arpitha Kodiveri

PART 2 Models for Addressing Climate and Environmental Justice within and Extra to the Curriculum

4 Addressing Dimensions of Environmental Justice through Experiential Learning

Rebecca Williams

5 Legal Ethics, Law Schools, and the Climate Emergency

Camila Bustos

6 Developing Environmental Agents of Change Within the Core Legal Curriculum

Sean Whittaker and Andrea Ross

7 Climate Change, the Environment and Legal Education: Creation of Knowledge through Transformative Experience

Stephen Levett

PART 3 Working in Partnership - Establishing and Maintaining Sustainable and Effective Relationship between Law Schools, NGOs and the Wider Community

8 Establishing Environmental Legal and Policy Clinics in Partnership with Universities

Tom Brenan

9 The Heart of Partnerships: Working with Environmental and Climate Justice Stakeholders

Douglas Ruley and Abigail Fleming

PART 4 Lawyers as Activists - Practitioners, Academics and Students

10 A Student Perspective on Environmental Education at Law School

Harrison Singh

11 Ethos Warriors: Developing Law Students' Leadership Skills to Create a More Sustainable Planet

Richard Owen

PART 5 Case Studies from Around the World

12 Making Sense of the Climate Crisis: Reflections on the Role of Legal Education for Future Lawyering through a Climate Change & Sustainability Law Clinic

David Rossati and Clemens Kaupa

13 Legal Education at the Frontier of the Ecological Transition: A Case Study from Turin

Christina Mosalagae and Ulrich Stege

14 Pursuing Environmental Justice through North-South Collaborations: A Transnational Human Rights and Environmental Law Clinic

Sue Willman

15 The Power of Climate Justice 'Movement Lawyering' in Legal Education

Hubert Algie, Isobel Graham and Parker Vize

16 Integrating Climate Change Education in an English Law School

Kim Bouwer

17 Building a Multi-Modal Effort on Climate and Environmental Justice: The Journey So Far

Michael Robinson-Dorn

Conclusion

Richard Grimes, Stephen Levett, Rebecca Samaras and Rebecca Williams