Teaching and Learning in Environmental Law: Pedagogy, Methodology and Best Practice (The IUCN Academy of Environmental Law series)

"This unique book focuses specifically on teaching and learning in environmental law, exploring innovative techniques, tools and technologies employed across the globe to teach this ever more important subject. Chapters identify particular challenges that environmental law poses for pedagogy, offering a mix of theory and practical guidance to legal scholars who are seeking to take up, or improve, their teaching of this subject. Providing an examination of teaching formats and methodologies that are both innovative and particularly adapted to the teaching of environmental law, contributions explore topics such as digital learning, joint teaching, flipped classrooms and scenario-based approaches, as well as discussing teacher-based, reflective, student-centred and research-based methods. The book also considers specific contexts for teaching environmental law such as specialized postgraduate programs, supervision methods for research students, teaching within non-law programs, and teaching online. Environmental law scholars at all levels of university instruction will find this book an invaluable opportunity to learn about new methods and approaches to teaching in this area. Its insights into legal teaching methodologies more broadly will also be of interest to legal academics in other areas of the law"-- Provided by publisher Contents List of contributors 1 From ‘marginality’ to ‘mainstream’: the evolution of teaching and learning in environmental law • Rob Fowler, Ceri Warnock, Amanda Kennedy, Anél du Plessis and Evan Hamman Part I: Values-based dimensions of environmental law 2 Engendering hope in environmental law students • Lynda Collins and Brandon D. Stewart 3 Bringing the ‘heart’ into environmental law teaching • Karen Bubna-Litic 4 Placing natural resources law: preliminary thoughts on decolonizing teaching and learning about people, places, and law • Estair Van Wagner Part II: Formats and methodologies for teaching environmental law 5 Is your textbook (still) really necessary? • Stuart Bell 6 Techniques for enhancing the lecture format in teaching environmental law • Tracy Bach 7 Teaching and learning environmental law using small group teaching methodologies • Ben Boer 8 Enhancing learning in environmental law through assessment design • Ceri Warnock, James Higham, Sara Walton, Lyn Carter and Daniel Kingston 9 Environmental law clinics in Australia and the United States: a comparison of design and operation • Evan Hamman and Jill Witkowski Heaps Part III: The teaching of international environmental law 10 Game on! Game-based learning as an innovative tool for teaching international environmental law • Alexandre Lillo and Thomas Burelli 11 Teaching international environmental law as a story • Chris McGrath Part IV: Environmental law at the postgraduate level 12 The emergence of specialist postgraduate coursework programs in environmental law • Heather McLeod-Kilmurray 13 Enriching the postgraduate environmental law classroom: combining mixed cohorts and intensive mode teaching • Erika Techera 14 Doctoral research in environmental law (Part 1): rationale and some supervision challenges • Willemien du Plessis and Anél du Plessis 15 Doctoral research in environmental law (Part 2): the student-supervisor relationship • Anél du Plessis and Willemien du Plessis Part V: Challenges for teaching environmental law 16 Of density and decline: reflections on environmental law teaching in the UK and on the co-production of environmental law scholarship • Steven Vaughan 17 Never mind the platform, here’s the pedagogy: e-learning in environmental law • Amanda Kennedy and Amy Cosby 18 Teaching environmental law in Thailand • Chacrit Sitdhiwej and Rob Fowler Index "This unique book focuses specifically on teaching and learning in environmental law, exploring theory and practice as well as innovative techniques, tools and technologies employed across the globe to teach this ever more important subject. Chapters identify particular challenges that environmental law poses for pedagogy. It offers practical guidance and serves as a source of authority to legal scholars who are seeking to take up, or improve, their teaching and knowledge of this subject."