UDTR — Radar mondial des droits de la Nature

Rights of nature : exploring the limits of legalist accounts of personhood

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openalex:w7081549317

Auteurs

Eric M. Rubenstein

Année déclarée

2025

Langue déclarée

en

Type source

dissertation

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Résumé documentaire — langue originale

Rights of Nature (RoN) seek to establish the legal rights of non-human nature, rights that nature has in and of itself. While various initiatives worldwide differ on the type of rights, legal standing, and methods of representation of nature, etc., they have in common the idea that natural entities or beings deserve legal protection irrespective of human interests. In order to have a robust set of rights, however, an entity must be a legal person, as opposed to being a ‘legal-thing’. It must be a subject of law, not merely an object. Thus the possibility of nature having robust rights requires it has the status of a legal person. This thesis contributes to the long-running debate on the necessary and sufficient conditions for legal personhood, with an eye to whether nature is the kind of being that can indeed be a legal person.On some accounts, legal personhood must track with features found in human beings, which depending on the version may focus on rationality, having a soul, or simply being genetically human. Such ‘Realist’ accounts contrast with a ‘Legalist’ strategy, whereby anything in theory could be deemed a legal person. My thesis will explore the extent to which a Legalist approach to nature’s personhood is preferable to the various Realist views that have been developed by many advocates of RoN. A test case for my analysis will be an exploration of how well Legalism fares in an Arctic context, particularly the case of Laponia in northern Sweden which while it has numerous legal protections does not have rights or personhood of its own. I argue that a Legalist rendering of personhood is better suited overall to the goals of RoN, and in particular the ongoing needs of the Laponia region and the Sámi People that lives there.

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OPENALEX

W7081549317

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1946/51241

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dissertation

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OpenAlex · Document 1 · Document 2

• Document · https://hdl.handle.net/1946/51241
• OpenAlex · https://openalex.org/W7081549317

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