Learning Ecological Law: Innovating Legal Curriculum and Pedagogy
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Graham, Nicole
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Dominant Western legal systems are deeply implicated in the economic structures and values that have resulted in the climate emergency. Contemporary legal systems have developed alongside Western industrialization to facilitate and secure investment and the accumulation of capital: ecologies as commodities. This chapter critically examines the role of legal education within the law's own ecosystem and its consequences for the text and practice of law – and for the planet. Legal education is a form of professional education, the purpose of which is to inculcate the novice into the shared knowledge, values, and practices of the profession. It is thus implicated in the reproduction of an unsustainable human–Earth relationship that is inconsistent with calls from climate scientists to urgently redirect that relationship. Legal education also, however, offers part of the solution to the dominance and ubiquity of anthropocentric law. By adopting strategies such as integrative thinking and by reframing the doctrinal canon, it is possible to unmask the intellectual assumptions about the role of law – and the role of humans – in planetary-level ecologies that are entrenched within legal education.
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The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene on 15 May 2023, available online: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003388081. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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Galloway, K; Graham, N, Learning Ecological Law: Innovating Legal Curriculum and Pedagogy, The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene, 2023, pp. 330-342