A Socio-Legal History of Australia's Environmental Lawyers

Project: Research

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Description

This historical study of 50 years of Australian environmental lawyering (1970-2020) aims to develop and preserve an unprecedented data set of environmental lawyers over multiple generations. It will create important new knowledge, challenging the common and limited treatment of lawyers as mere instruments of social causes and revealing a novel, and previously unexplored, layer of environmental governance. This new knowledge can beused by environmentalists, researchers and policy makers to better understand and engage with this importantclass of social reformers. It can inform environmental advocacy, governance and environmental protection. Otherbenefits include building capacity in Australian socio-legal historical research.
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date1/01/2231/12/24

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