Mauricio Guim and Michael A Livermore, ‘Where Nature’s Rights Go Wrong’, 107 Virginia Law Review 1347 (2021). In ‘When Nature’s Rights Go Wrong’, Professors Mauricio Guim and Michael Livermore offer much needed analytical clarity to a significant, yet still understudied, field: rights of nature. After centuries of adopting a predominantly human-centric perspective, a more biocentric outlook is now coming to the fore. Much like property rights, nature’s rights award control over clusters of natural resources. However, unlike traditional property rights, in the case of nature’s rights – as the name suggests – the right holders are non-human … (more)
[Yael Lifshitz, JOTWELL, 1 February]
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