Earth Law: Emerging Ecocentric Law--A Guide for Practitioners, Second Edition

Buy a new version of this textbook and receive access to the Connected eBook on Casebook Connect, including academic lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities. Access also includes an outline tool and other helpful resources. Connected eBooks provide what you need most to be successful in your law school classes. The much-anticipated second edition ofEarth Law: Emerging Ecocentric Law—A Guide for Practitioners expands the world’s leading coursebook on the Rights of Nature and other ecocentric legal frameworks. Building on the groundbreaking first edition, this new volume offers both a sharper conceptual focus and a greatly broadened set of case studies.   Earth Law is a book for students and practicing lawyers who seek to preserve a habitable planet and question whether current environmental law is sufficient for the task. Earth law is the emerging body of ecocentric law for protecting, restoring, and stabilizing the functional interdependency of Earth’s life and life-support systems, expressed in constitutional, statutory, common law, customary law, treaties, and other agreements. It is a rapidly developing field in many nations, municipalities, Indigenous communities, and international institutions. This course of study is for those who know that nature and human environmental rights must have seats at the table of law. Case studies in the second edition include landmark Rights of Nature legislative wins such as legal guardianship for Spain’s Mar Manor and Panama’s national Rights of Nature law, crucial international court cases including one for the rights of Peru’s Marañón River,Indigenous-led legal initiatives recognizing Nature as a rights-holder and kin, and many more. What’s New in the Second Edition:  Nine brand-new chapters, including specific geographical focuses, broader concepts in Earth law, and movement lawyering. Expanded chapters on a wide range of Earth law topics, presenting up-to-date information on this rapidly expanding area of the law, including Indigenous-led Rights of Nature campaigns and other Indigenous Earth jurisprudence, featuring main tenets and methodologies, understanding rights as grounded in responsibilities that arise from kinship, and the modern bioregionalism movement national and international legal campaigns, such as ecocide as a crime, the public trust doctrine and atmospheric trust litigation, rights of future generations, and potentials and pitfalls of the UN Harmony with Nature Programme  Rights of Nature and other Earth law frameworks, including novel applications such as cities, space, and AI Case excerpts and analysis from crucial developments that have occurred since the publication of the first edition  Professors and Students Will Benefit From: A unique coursebook, the first to address ecocentric law and jurisprudence comprehensively  Examination of the settings in which Earth law is developing and the principles of Earth jurisprudence on which it is based  Practical and theoretical foundations for developing systems of ecological governance and the ethical responsibilities of lawyers Accumulated knowledge of dozens of lawyers and researchers Practical tools for the Earth law practitioner’s toolbox