OEP SIG webinar – Creating Open ‘Living Textbooks’ for a Climate Conscious Legal Education

This webinar is a lunchtime panel co-hosted with our colleagues from the Australian Law Librarians’ Association (ALLA).

Panel brief

As the world grapples with the escalating challenges of climate change, the legal profession finds itself at a crossroads. There is an urgent need to appropriately support and resource legal professionals to navigate the ways climate change is transforming the legal landscape to ensure they have the relevant expertise and competencies to deliver legal services and promote climate justice to a wide range of clients in a climate transformed world.

This seminar will explore how legal practitioners, legal academics, law librarians, and open education specialists have collaborated to create a ‘living’ open educational resource (OER) to advance these objectives. Our panel will discuss how we created Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer: Climate Change and the Australian Legal System (La Trobe eBureau, 2024) and how these ‘Third Space’ cross-disciplinary collaborations can tackle large problems at scale in an environment of rapid legal changes and urgent advocacy for change.

When

Wednesday 30th October 2024
1:00pm AEDT (convert to your local time here)

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Speaker details

Julia Dehm (OER co-editor), Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow, School of Law, La Trobe University.

Steven Chang, Coordinator of Open Education & Scholarship, La Trobe University.

Heidi Butters-Stabb, Senior Learning Librarian (Law), La Trobe University.