Science and the legal rights of nature
Epstein, Yaffa ; Ellison, Aaron M. ; Echeverría, Hugo and Abbott, Jessica K. LU
(2023)
In Science
380(6646).
- Abstract
We review the use of science by lawmakers and courts in implementing or rejecting legal rights for nature in Ecuador, India, the United States, and other jurisdictions where some type of rights of nature have been recognized in the legal system. We then use the “right to evolve” to exemplify how interdisciplinary work can (i) help courts effectively define what this right might entail; (ii) inform how it might be applied in different circumstances; and (iii) provide a template for how scientists and legal scholars can generate the interdisciplinary scholarship necessary to understand and implement the growing body of rights-of-nature laws, and environmental law more generally. We conclude by pointing to what further research is needed... (More)
We review the use of science by lawmakers and courts in implementing or rejecting legal rights for nature in Ecuador, India, the United States, and other jurisdictions where some type of rights of nature have been recognized in the legal system. We then use the “right to evolve” to exemplify how interdisciplinary work can (i) help courts effectively define what this right might entail; (ii) inform how it might be applied in different circumstances; and (iii) provide a template for how scientists and legal scholars can generate the interdisciplinary scholarship necessary to understand and implement the growing body of rights-of-nature laws, and environmental law more generally. We conclude by pointing to what further research is needed to understand and effectively implement the growing body of rights-of-nature laws.
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- author
- Epstein, Yaffa
; Ellison, Aaron M.
; Echeverría, Hugo
and Abbott, Jessica K.
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2023
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- Science
- volume
- 380
- issue
- 6646
- article number
- eadf4155
- publisher
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- external identifiers
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- pmid:37200429
- scopus:85159770775
- ISSN
- 0036-8075
- DOI
- 10.1126/SCIENCE.ADF4155
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 9e875121-2c1c-4733-a7ec-f28894743aeb
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- 2023-08-21 15:47:15
- date last changed
- 2024-04-20 02:12:45
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