... the Birrarung (Yarra) River, the Whangaehu River, the Rangitaiki and Wheao Rivers, the Waikato River and the ʔEsdilagh River. Rights for rivers Legally living rivers Rights of Nature Birrarung (Yarra River) Australia Earth jurisprudence Ecojurisprudence Environmental law Ecological...

.../methodology/approach This paper adopts a doctrinal and conceptual methodology. It reassesses classic and contemporary theories of legal personhood (legalist and metaphysical; interest and will theories) alongside recent Rights of Nature and “rights of rivers” scholarship. These conceptual debates are tested...

...Kellianne Elliott; Zelda Clegg; Mason Charles Favro; Joyce Fang; Molly Weiner; Matt Zepelin Purpose Because “rights” are typically paired with “duties” in legal systems, this paper aims to give careful consideration to this relationship in the Rights of Nature framework. Design/methodology...

... tasks in the processes of representation of both environmental and Indigenous interests. After a brief introduction to the cases, this article will firstly consider the modern rights of nature movement, then the idea of “personhood” in legal usage. The term has recently gathered a great deal...

...Angela María Sánchez-Alfonso; Rana Göksu Purpose This paper tackles the reliance of the Rights of Nature (RoN) practice on expert knowledge and aims to spatialise and materialise other-than-expert knowledges within RoN practice by proposing “grounded” knowledges. Design/methodology/approach...