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Role of legal education in achieving sustainability
growing role of legal education in achieving sustainability, which can be downloaded at the bottom of the page. Environmental Justice and Sustainability: Setting the Agenda for Legal EducationView more webinars from UK Centre for Legal Education.…
Sustainability policy
align its own practices and activities with sustainability principles. The UKCLE team are therefore committed to minimising their environmental impact through continuous improvement in environmental performance and to contribute to the ethos of fair and equitable society locally…
A new sense of purpose: education for sustainability in law
education project is exploring the concept of sustainability literacy within legal education. Following a discussion session at the Learning in Law Annual Conference 2007, a consultation paper was written to explore the issues and put forward some proposed survey questions. I…
Education for sustainability: do we have a choice? Conference paper
teachers start to develop a vocabulary around ‘sustainability literacy’ that makes sense to practitioners, academics and students raise awareness of the potential of this agenda for making the study of law vibrant, relevant and exciting for students Hugh kick…
Introduction of sustainability literacy into a company law module
(tutorial groups) Summary: introduction of sustainability concepts into the study of company models Contact: Nigel Firth, University of Plymouth (e-mail: nigel.firth@plymouth.ac.uk) The company law module engages the learner in the exploration of different forms of company mo…
Integrating sustainability concepts in an environmental law module
5-10 (tutorial groups, stage 3) Summary: sustainability as a pervasive theme in the study of environmental law Contact: Jason Lowther, University of Plymouth (e-mail: jason.lowther@plymouth.ac.uk) Environmental law offers a relatively straightforward means of introducing sust…
Teaching environmental law, ethics and sustainability - case study
module on environmental law, ethics and sustainability Contact: Simon Payne (e-mail:simon.payne@plymouth.ac.uk) and Jason Lowther, University of Plymouth (e-mail: jason.lowther@plymouth.ac.uk) In this module students synthesise materials and ideas on law, ethics and sustainabi…
Workbook integrating sustainability concepts in legal system and method
autonomous learning. The relevance of the sustainability concept to legal systems is reflected and provides a themed focus for some of the exercises. Contact: Jo Sellick, University of Plymouth (e-mail: joanne.sellick@plymouth.ac.uk) Revalidation of the legal systems and metho…
Education for sustainability: do we have a choice? Consultation paper
education project is exploring the concept of sustainability literacy within legal education. This consultation paper, developed from the authors’ session at the Learning in Law Annual Conference 2007, explores the issues and puts forward some proposed survey questions, ai…
UKCLE sustainability policy
align its own practices and activities with sustainability principles. The UKCLE team are therefore committed to minimising their environmental impact through continuous improvement in environmental performance and to contribute to the ethos of fair and equitable society locally…
Developing global citizens through legal education
summary: an exploration of the concept of sustainability literacy within legal education Completion date: July 2008 Funding: £4,000 (Higher Education Academy) This two year project, funded by the Higher Education Academy’s Education for Sustainable Development Project…
Case studies on education for sustainable development in law
case studies on how they are integrating sustainability literacy into the curriculum at various stages of study. We are looking for further case studies – if you would like to contribute contact us on e-mail: ukcle@warwick.ac.uk. ESD at Plymouth At Plymouth the educ…
Education for sustainable development
growing role of legal education in achieving sustainability – paper by Professor John Dernbach (University of Widener Law School), on which his keynote was based. An audio slidecast of the keynote is also available. Environmental justice in Spanish environmental law R…
Education for sustainable development: what does it mean for legal education?
Associate Director) introduces the concept of sustainability literacy and UKCLE’s Developing global citizens through legal education project. Some background In March 2005 Tony Blair launched the UK government’s sustainable development strategy Securing the futur…
Building the sustainable university
on the symposium or on ESD at UCL. The sustainability message is now hitting higher education! For a long while the education for sustainable development (ESD) movement seemed to be confined to schools, but now it is spinning in many directions, involving all education sector…
Building the sustainable university: examples
beyond the ‘teaching about/teaching for’ sustainability dichotomy UKCLE is developing a set of case studies on education for sustainable development in law how sustainable is your course? STAUNCH (Sustainability Tool for Auditing for University Curricula in Higher Educat…
Recognising the intersection between human rights and environment in legal education
Damilola Olawuyi (University of Oxford) will present a paper at the UKCLE event on Environmental justice in legal education on 29 March 2010. He will examine the need for law faculties to develop courses and seminars that expose students to the intersection between human rights …
Teaching environmental justice across international, European and national disciplinary 'boundaries'
David Ong (University of Essex) will present a paper at the UKCLE event on Environmental justice in legal education on 29 March 2010. He will consider environmental justice in relation to the jurisdictional boundaries of international, European and national law, and the sub-disc…
Law and science and environmental justice in the curriculum
Sharron McEldowney (University of Westminster) will present a paper at the UKCLE event on Environmental justice in legal education on 29 March 2010. She will explain how an understanding of sound science as a basis for environmental justice may be integrated more fully into the …
Environmental justice in Spanish environmental law (Environmental justice in legal education event)
Jordi Jaria i Manzano and Maria Marqués i Banqué (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) presented a paper at the UKCLE event on Environmental justice in legal education on 29 March 2010. They explored how environmental justice has been incorporated into the Masters in Environmental La…
UKCLE professional development seminars
UKCLE is able to offer advice and input for law schools on a range of learning and teaching topics. Whatever your development needs, contact us. Events can be tailored to the specific requirements of individual departments but we are also happy to run ‘regional’ events for g…
Developing environmental justice in the curriculum
John McEldowney (University of Warwick) is presenting a paper on how environmental justice can be more fully integrated into the curriculum at the UKCLE event on Environmental justice in legal education on 29 March 2010. He will trace the historical development of how environmen…
Designing an environmental justice course
Andrea Ross (University of Dundee) will present a paper on designing an environmental justice course at the UKCLE event on Environmental justice in legal education on 29 March 2010. She will explore the rationale of including a specialist module in environmental justice at LLM l…
Land reform in Scotland: is it achieving environmental justice?
Aylwin Pillai and Anne-Michelle Slater (University of Aberdeen) are unable to attend to present their paper at the UKCLE event on Environmental justice in legal education reform in Scotland: is it achieving environmental justice? on 29 March 2010. The details of their paper and …
Jane Holder
teaches courses in Environmental Law and Sustainability and Environmental Justice, and is currently working on sustainable cities issues as part of UCL’s Grand Challenges . Work with UKCLE Environmental justice in legal education – speaker at conference at the U…
Papers presented at 2007 Conference
Patricia McKellar (UKCLE) et al Education for sustainability: do we have a choice? – Hugh Brayne (consultant) and Tracey Varnava (UKCLE) Introducing clinics in Olomouc: the application of common law clinical models in a civil law system – Vendula Bryxová and Max…
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2007
curriculum, the Bologna process and education for sustainability Creativity in the law curriculum – approaches described include peer assisted learning, using a wiki and ‘teaching without talking’ Making good lawyers – making lawyers good – focu…
Education for sustainable development: how can we fit it into the law curriculum?
subjects lend themselves to the integration of sustainability themes. Where subject do not readily demonstrate an SD component the workshop will explore different methods of incorporating sustainability concerns into teaching and learning materials. It will explore the advantage…
Ethics and legal education
University) Teaching environmental law, ethics and sustainability – case study on a masters level module synthesising law, ethics and sustainability, contributed by Simon Payne and Jason Lowther (University of Plymouth) ETHICS project – details of UKCLE participa…
Archived Events (2)
Environmental justice in legal education
This conference was designed to give space to people to share and discuss questions and ideas surrounding environmental justice in teaching, legal practice and research. Through workshops and group discussion, participants were offered some clear pointers, ideas and guidance as t...…
15th Annual SEDA conference 2010
The annual conference will take an interesting new form this year. The event will have a number of strands running throughout the two days intended to provide an opportunity for educational developers to engage with their peers in their own professional development. The strands...…
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