By Luana Elena Miu What if a polluted river could take its polluter to court? What if a forest had a legal right to exist, not just because it’s nice for us to look at, but because it has a right to thrive? This is the radical idea at the heart of the Nature’s Rights Bill...
by Niamh McConnell Bees play a vital role in pollination, sustaining the worldās food supply. It has been said that if bees were to disappear off the surface of the globe, humanity would only have four years of life left.1 They are particularly crucial in the ecosystem of the vast...
By David Lewis-Hall, Barrister The New Zealand Parliament has recently granted (1) legal personhood to a third natural entity, following Te Urewera (a forest) in 2014 (2) and Te Awa Tupua (the Whanganui River) in 2017. (3) Whilst this, along with other recent developments, may be good evidence of...
Review by Randi Milgram, A-LAW Blog Editor and Companion Animals SIG Co-chair The book āWhat Can Animal Law Learn from Environmental Law?ā, now in its second edition, is at once a legal textbook (though a fairly accessible one) and a call to action. Itās a veritable treatise on the answer to the...
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