ABSTRACT Legislation in New Zealand dictates that the Whanganui River is a living entity
and a legal person. Guardians uphold the river's environmental, social, cultural and …

The idea of human dominion over nature has become entrenched by the dominant rights-
based interpretation of private property. Accordingly, nature is not attributed any inherent …

In the past few years, the subject of AI rights—the thesis that AIs, robots, and other artefacts
(hereafter, simply 'AIs') ought to be included in the sphere of moral concern—has started to …

This book provides a reimagining of how Western law and legal theory structures the human–
earth relationship. As a complement to contemporary efforts to establish rights of nature and …

Abstract Earth System Law has been proposed as an alternative conceptual framework to
animate and support more adequate legal responses to planetary change. The emerging …

Colombian courts have issued ruling recognizing 14 distinct eco-regions as rights-holders
since 2016. Ten of these rights-bearing ecosystems are river basins. According to the …

In the past two decades global citizenship education (GCE) has become established in
national and international education policy. This article focuses on the emergence of GCE in …

Socio-legal studies is a 'heterogeneous field'that encompasses a broad range of topics.
Indeed, recently, legal scholars who regard their work as socio-legal have accepted the …

In the recent" National Youth White Paper on Global Citizenship"(2015), a selection of
Canadian youth identified their vision for global citizenship education (GCE). The document …

Nature's rights approaches are being developed as an alternative legal means to enable
justice for nature and, oftentimes, humans, too. This study examines Colombia's two seminal …