Fossil Free Law student gathering
Join us at our inaugural Fossil Free Law student gathering. This one-day event is an opportunity for law students to network, gain campaigning skills, and plan together how we can collectively challenge ties between Scotland’s legal sector and the fossil fuel industry.
Why attend?
We are building a new network of climate conscious law students, and we want you to be part of it.
As the future workforce of Scotland’s legal sector, law students have a vital role to play in challenging the acceptability of law firms providing services to the fossil fuel industry. They can shape emerging norms and drive a cultural shift within the legal profession, ensuring that the work undertaken by lawyers remains compatible with Paris Agreement climate targets.
What is the problem?
Scientists are warning that climate breakdown is happening faster than expected and that the window for action is closing fast.
If we are serious about limiting dangerous temperature rises, there is no space for new fossil fuels, but oil & gas companies have failed to diversify and continue to seek licences to exploit new reserves.
Law firms provide a range of services to oil, gas and mining companies, enabling transactions that finance future fossil fuel development, litigation against climate accountability, and fossil fuel lobbying.
However, until now, the enabling role of our legal sector has escaped scrutiny, and there has been little consideration of whether work undertaken by lawyers on behalf of the fossil fuel industry is consistent with the Paris Agreement targets to limit temperature rises to 1.5 degrees.
It’s time to build a new generation of climate conscious lawyers – join us.
What to expect:
- Networking and movement building
- Skill sharing and training workshops
- Strategy and campaign planning
- Discussion and debate
Refreshments and lunch/dinner provided
Event details & accessibility
This event is only open to law students and recent graduates in Scotland. ERCS is able to contribute to travel and childcare/caring expenses, please don’t hesitate to contact us at events@ercs.scot.
We want this event to be accessible to all. If you have any particular accessibility requirements, please contact Jack, our Office Manager (email: events@ercs.scot, tel: 0131 358 0038), as soon as you can so that we can make any arrangements required. BSL users can contact us via an online BSL/English interpreter.
We ask everyone to follow the ERCS Event Code of Conduct.
Programme
12 – 12.15pm | Welcome, drinks & networking
12.15 – 1pm | Introductions: why are we here?
1 – 2pm | Workshops: tips & tricks to mobilise
2—2.45pm | Lunch
2.45 —3.30pm | Strategy planning
3.30 —3.45pm | Break
3.45 —4.30pm | Regional organising
4.00 —5.00pm | Next steps
6pm + | Pizza + social
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