Created in response to widespread calls for environmental protection and public participation in NSW in the 1970s, the opening of the Land and Environment Court in 1980 was significant far beyond NSW. The Land and Environment Court was the world’s first specialist environmental court created as a superior court of record, and its jurisprudence has played a critical role in the development of environmental law in NSW, nationally and internationally. Today, the Land and Environment Court remains at the forefront of environmental law, helping to develop the law around new issues such as climate change law.
The Land and Environment Court Clinic is an experiential learning program. In this course students will put their legal skills and knowledge to use and gain practical experience of the law in action. At the same time they will be critically analysing the effect of law and legal policy on clients and the environment in a court setting.
The Land and Environment Court Clinic is one of the elective subjects for law and will normally be taken after completion of AWS8071/JURD7371 Development and Planning Law, or Environmental Law LAWS3361/JURD7361 Environmental Law. It fits within the Environmental law stream, which includes such subjects such as Climate Law, Natural Resources Law and Environmental Markets. It provides a good grounding for further studies in this area.

More information can be found on the 'Law in Action' in Law Website.