Legal Voices for the Future @ Wakelyns 2025

It was such fun to welcome the LVF crew for their first weekend learning field trip.

They wrote it up here.

And they made this lovely video record:

This is LVF:

Legal Voices for the Future launched in 2023, but the idea was born almost two years earlier, growing in ambition and reality every time the founding members met and talked. A few realisations, which our founders perceived as huge gaps in legal education and community, motivated them to push forward with it.

First, our founders realised that modern legal education does not cover the issue of climate change and other planetary and societal dimensions in its core curriculum. This means that young lawyers embark on their professional lives ill-equipped to understand how their work and decisions impact the planet and the society.

Second, young lawyers are largely isolated from one another once they leave university and qualify. We pursue our careers on our own, sometimes under mentorships of our colleagues and friends, but rarely are we connected to one another for the same reason. This means that many young lawyers feel lost in their careers, guided only by people whose experience is often not reflective of the young lawyers’ daily reality.

Third, building on the previous two realisations, our founders realised that without the right education and connections, the legal profession risks becoming complacent in some of the worst planetary and societal injustices.

And Legal Voices is here to address all three of these gaps:

We are here to enable anyone to gain the benefit of high-quality peer-led education on important planetary and societal issues.

We are here to enable anyone to connect to their peers and feel empowered to become a maker rather than a victim of their career.

And we are here to make sure that the legal profession we are proud members of will keep making us proud in the years and decades to come.

We do this by holding regular knowledge sessions in person and online which cover various important planetary and societal issues. Given the current state of international affairs, it is perhaps no surprise that much of our work to date has focussed on climate change and ecological issues.