UDTR — Radar mondial des droits de la Nature

From Moral Crusade to European Reality: The Rights of Nature “Solution” in Search of a Problem

Identification

Clé publique

doi:10.1017/aju.2026.10088

Auteurs

Julien Bétaille

Année déclarée

2026

Langue déclarée

en · und

Type source

article

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2026-11-09T19:04:47.830366+00:00

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2026-11-10T16:58:51.450308+00:00

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Institutions déclarées par la source

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement · Professor of Environmental Law, University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour, France; Member of the Institut universitaire de France; Associate member of the Toulouse School of Economics. · TSE-R Toulouse School of Economics – Recherche · Transitions Energétiques et Environnementales · Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour

Pays d’affiliation déclarés

FR

Résumé documentaire — langue originale

By what sleight of hand could the simple idea of personifying nature and granting it rights outperform contemporary environmental law, a sophisticated normative edifice built over the last fifty years? This is the question that led me, about a decade ago, to engage critically with rights of nature. 1 In this essay, I focus on the concept from a European standpoint, without claiming to do full justice to the live debate over the concept in other jurisdictions, such as Latin America, New Zealand, and the United States. I challenge the claim that rights of nature offer a meaningful legal alternative to contemporary environmental law in Europe. The arguments advanced here, however, have broader relevance: European law — including under the European Convention on Human Rights — shows that effective protection of nature does not require personification, and the theoretical critiques of rights of nature are also relevant to the international debate. The argument that it might provide such an alternative rests on a form of ancient natural law thinking, and it carries a strong ideological charge that leads to a flawed diagnosis of what environmental law actually is and does. Rather than re-inventing environmental law through personification of nature, the pressing task is to sustain the existing legal framework.

Identifiants

DOI

10.1017/aju.2026.10088

HAL

hal-05698725

ISSN

2398-7723

OPENALEX

W7169729739

OPENAIRE

doi_dedup___::d8cb6afcb9a127499df725ae98b5ae88

Repères documentaires

Famille documentaire

Doctrine

Types déclarés par les sources

ART · Article · article

Juridictions étudiées — sources explicites

ECHR · REGIONAL_EUROPE

Libellés de juridiction dans les sources

Droit européen / European law (including ECHR)

Éditeurs

Cambridge University Press

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Sources

DOAJ · Document 1 · Document 2

HAL · Document 1 · Document 2 · Document 3

OpenAIRE · Document 1

OpenAlex · Document 1 · Document 2 · Document 3

Publisher / institutional publication record · Document 1

• DOI · https://doi.org/10.1017/aju.2026.10088
• HAL · https://hal.science/hal-05698725
• Document · https://univ-pau.hal.science/hal-05698725v1
• Document · https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/article/from-moral-crusade-to-european-reality-the-rights-of-nature-solution-in-search-of-a-problem/1C0A9CAE72997803A5377E3BE3051C24
• Document · https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2398772326100889/type/journal_article
• OpenAlex · https://openalex.org/W7169729739

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