# Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer: Climate and the Australian Legal System

- By: Anna Huggins - Author / Ellen Hawkins - Author / Steven Tudor - Author / Nicole Rogers
- Publisher: La Trobe University
- Source: [Open Textbook Library](https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/becoming-a-climate-conscious-lawyer-climate-and-the-australian-legal-system)
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- Online: https://latrobe.studium.pub/climate-conscious-lawyer/
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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.