Faculty Development Program by Indo-Dutch Research Center On Climate Change: Register by May 26

About the Centre

The Indo- Dutch Research Centre on Climate Change Law Research and Education is a collaborative initiative between the Van Vollenhoven Institute at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands and Government Law College, Ernakulam, India. It aims to promote research and education in climate change law by facilitating knowledge exchange between the two countries. The center focuses on legal frameworks addressing climate change challenges and seeks to contribute to policy development and academic discourse. The Centre’s work is driven by a commitment to reimagining the role of legal education in addressing ecological precarity.

About The FDP

Climate change has a profound impact on the international community necessitating the initiation of urgent and sustained efforts directed towards its mitigation. In recent times, there has been the occurrence of a paradigm shift in enhancing the understanding of its legal implications, which has in turn driven towards a solution-oriented approach with legal education in its core. The Indo-Dutch Research Centre on Climate Change Law, Research and Education is acting in consonance with this ideal. With its works endeavoring towards the inculcation of climate law and other interdisciplinary laws to legal education, the Centre contributes to the fostering of awareness and realizing such meaningful academic engagements. 

The Faculty Development Program (FDP) is an attempt towards the furtherance of these objectives. It is organized in the online mode from the 2nd to 6th of June, 2025, aimed at equipping the members of the law faculty with the tools, insights and academic resources requisite to integrate aspects of climate change law across the legal curriculum. Further, the FDP facilitates a structured approach intended at creating a dialogue focusing on an issue-based analysis of climate concerns within the branches of law, including public, private, constitutional law etc. The participants are expected to take part in the hands on exercise with curriculum restructuring. 

The session aims to cover aspects ranging from foundational to thematic approaches, including the identification of pedagogical gaps relating to climate law, analysing interdisciplinary linkages, development of emotions and its effect in the climate classroom, rethinking doctrinal boundaries and reimagining teaching methodologies in view of the dynamic global imperatives. With expert lectures, group activities and dedicated time for syllabus development, this FDP seeks to support participants in critically rethinking the traditional curricula and further formulating one reflecting contemporary climate realities. 

The FDP is a step not only aiming at a curriculum reform, but is a reflection of the Centre’s commitment towards building a community of educators equipped to lead change. Thus, by bringing together various perspectives and fostering collaboration, FDP seeks to inspire innovation, deepen awareness and place climate responsiveness at the core of legal education.

Objectives

• To initiate a structured and critical engagement with the imperative of integrating climate change law into mainstream legal education.
• To examine the evolving intersections between climate change and diverse branches of law, particularly within public and private legal frameworks.
• To equip legal educators with the necessary theoretical and pedagogical tools to reframe curricula in response to climate realities.
• To encourage interdisciplinary thinking and foster dialogue on innovative teaching strategies suited for climate-responsive classrooms.
• To provide a platform for faculty members to collaboratively design, revise, and contextualise modules that embed climate law perspectives.

Outcomes

• Enhanced academic capacity among legal educators to address climate change through doctrinal, comparative, and interdisciplinary approaches.
• Development of revised or new course modules that reflect the urgency and complexity of climate issues within legal frameworks.
• Strengthening of an academic network dedicated to the advancement of climate law education and sustainable pedagogical practices.
• Increased awareness and institutional commitment to the integration of environmental considerations within the formal structure of legal education.
• Creation of a repository of climate law resources, teaching tools, and model syllabi for reference and future academic collaboration.

Date

2-6 June 2025

Mode

Online 

Open to

Members of the faculty of Law

Registration 

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Last Date of Registration: May 26, 2025 

Contact

Any clarification may be directed to [email protected]

• Nikitha A, +91 8281939905
• Aparna C T, +91 77368 37796

The brochure is here.