This book engages with a traditional yet persistent question of legal theory–what is law?
However, instead of attempting to define and limit law, the aim of the book is to unlimit law, to …

Today, numerous constitutions provide for a rights-based approach to environmental
protection. Based as they are on an instrumentalist rationality that seeks to promote human …

This book explores how, in the wake of the Anthropocene, the growing call for urgent
decarbonisation and accelerated energy transitions might have unintended consequences …

Rights of Nature, the idea of extending legal personhood to nature, is today's most
prominent alternative to mainstream environmental governance. Proponents describe …

This article rethinks the doctrines of responsibility and protection in international
environmental law in light of notions of response-abilities and care in more-than-human …

The premise of this series is that the current environmental crisis cannot be solved by
technological innovation alone and that the environmental challenges we face today are, at …

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 …

Against the backdrop of failing environmental governance, rights of nature (RoN) are lauded
as the paradigm shift needed to transform law's approach to nature. RoN have been …

This article examines the concept of granting legal rights to nature as a strategy for more
effective environmental protection in the era of the Anthropocene. Following decades of …

Global environmental law is characterized by Eurocentric cultural paradigms that perceive
humanity as external and superior to Nature. This supremacy over Nature reflects a legacy …