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After Dr. Cameron’s untimely passing in 2020, the centre continued the
project. The main component of the project is an upper-year J.D. seminar
taught by the centre’s director, Professor Stepan Wood. The seminar carves
out a unique niche in environmental law education by combining legal
analysis and advocacy with journalistic techniques of documentary film,
interviews, blogging and storytelling. Students write blog posts about “warrior
lawyers” like Tony Oposa in the Philippines and Terri-Lynn Williams-
Davidson in Haida Gwaii. They conduct research into cutting-edge issues of
environmental rights, some of which is published in the centre’s working
paper series.
The longer-term goal of the Green Rights and Warrior Lawyers project is
to develop a suite of educational resources for learners in a range of fields
at various stages of lifelong learning from high school to retirement, in a
variety of formats including fee-based continuing professional education
programs similar to Allard’s new Mining Law and Sustainability executive
learning program, for-credit university courses, open online courses and
open-access educational videos.
Training a New Generation
A big part of the centre’s mandate is helping train the next generation of
environmental lawyers. Aside from the Green Rights and Warrior Lawyers
seminar, it does this by offering Allard students experiential education
opportunities with environmental law organizations; administering the J.D.
specialization in environmental and natural resource law; helping organize
the biennial Willms & Shier Environmental Law Moot, which will be held
virtually in March 2022; supporting student-initiated environmental law
projects; and appointing J.D. and graduate students as fellows of the centre.
Stay in Touch
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about upcoming events and opportunities.