This module explores environmental lawyers (including lawyering, litigation, and access to environmental justice) in a contemporary, communicative, and...

This module explores environmental lawyers (including lawyering, litigation, and access to environmental justice) in a contemporary, communicative, and critical way.

The fields of environmental litigation and access to environmental justice are highly contentious for both legal and political reasons and this module will equip students with vital legal skills and knowledge to navigate contested social issues that manifest in environmental lawyering and dispute resolution. Students will explore fundamental concepts and concerns (which may include such topics as environmental ethics, environmental justice, environmental cause lawyering, the funding of cases, the law on standing) and then draw on those concepts and concerns in a variety of different local, national and global contexts (for example, climate change, the oil and gas sector, ‘toxic torts’).

This module aims to provide an understanding of printing using moveable type from the mid 15th century to the 1930s, of the printed book as object, and of the...

This module aims to provide an understanding of printing using moveable type from the mid 15th century to the 1930s, of the printed book as object, and of the principles of bibliographic.

By the end of the module, students will have an overview of the history of the book printed with moveable type and of the materials that make it up (print processes, paper-making, format, bindings, illustrations, etc), some practical experience of bibliographic description of rare printed published materials, and knowledge of the major techniques for research, including provenance research. Topics will be approached from three perspectives: initial production technologies, the social, ethical and political context of production (censorship; book trade; geographical, religious and linguistic impact of the printing press), and the biography of a book after production (readership; annotations; provenance; sale and collecting history; hidden and marginalised voices; binding, cutting up and adding to books).

Classes are a mix of lectures, seminars, and practical hands-on sessions, some of which take place - when COVID restrictions allow – with library or museum collections. Current practitioners (many of them alumni of the module) sometimes share their expertise as workshop hosts and / or guest lecturers. The assessment for the module is an exercise in bibliographic description and an essay.