Climate Justice Seminar
As a main component of our efforts, the Three Degrees Project has developed curriculum for a multidisciplinary graduate-level seminar in climate justice. Now entering its third year, the Climate Justice Seminar is a working model with the goal of leveraging the university as a resource for climate-vulnerable communities with limited resources that seek strategies for adapting to climate change. The seminar facilitates groups of students and faculty to work directly with communities impacted by the climate crisis and to use legal and policy tools to assist them with their climate adaptation goals. The Climate Justice Seminar is structured off of the Three Degrees Project’s five-part framework for climate justice, and aims to be replicable at other universities worldwide.
Climate Justice Seminar
In Winter Quarter 2012, the Climate Justice Seminar will be meet on Tuesdays and
Thursdays from 8:30–10:30 a.m. at the law school in Room 116. The Spring Quarter
Climate Justice Seminar will not be offered in 2012.
The Climate Justice Seminar is open to 25 graduate and professional students from across the University of Washington by application (note:
J.D. students need not apply). The course examines predicted climate
futures in locations around the globe where climate change is likely to harm
disadvantaged populations, with the goal of understanding the limitations and
strengths of the international and domestic legal and political systems
available to alleviate these impacts. The winter quarter will focus on global
climate-related impacts to health, food and water, security, equity, and
justice.
All applications must be e-mailed to by 12:00 noon on Wednesday, November 16, 2011. If you have questions in the interim, please contact the seminar’s Teaching Fellow,
Brandon Derman at
Reminder: J.D. students need not submit an application for the 2012 Climate Justice Seminar.