UDTR Global Rights of Nature Legal Library

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A global documentary infrastructure designed to achieve the broadest verifiable and scientifically defensible coverage of the Rights of Nature.

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Can Nature Be a Legal Person: Perspectives on Rights of Rivers, Forests, and Ecosystems · Scholarship · 2026

Rights of Nature Beyond Legal Personhood: Guardianship Bodies as a Framework for Indigenous Co-Management in the United States · Thesis · 2026

Comparative Environmental Jurisprudence: A Multi-Country Analysis of Rights of Nature Applications · Scholarship · 2026

How Legal Systems Reflect Societal Views of Nature · Scholarship · 2026

Getting To Guardianship: Impacts of Kinship Guardianship Subsidies on Guardianship Permanency for Foster Care-Involved Youth · Working paper · 2026

As correntes formalistas e antiformalistas do Direito: o caso do positivismo analítico normativista de Hans Kelsen · Scholarship · 2026

Can Nature Be a Legal Person: Perspectives on Rights of Rivers, Forests, and Ecosystems · Scholarship · 2026

La IA en Relación con la Gestión Hídrica: Aproximación Jurídico-Constitucional a la Justicia Socioespacial y los Derechos de la Naturaleza · Scholarship · 2026

Who bears the responsibility? Legal liability allocation for AI agent conduct in platform ecosystem · Scholarship · 2026

Realizing the Law-Religion Synergy in Environmental Governance: The Right to Religious Freedom as an Instrumental Environmental Right in Indonesia · Scholarship · 2026

O “Livro Falante”: Algumas Notas sobre a Escravidãoe as Escrituras nos Estados Unidos · Scholarship · 2026

Adopting the Concept of Green Victimology in Recognizing the Environment as ‘Victims’ within the Indonesian Criminal Justice · Scholarship · 2026

Women’s Legal Agency in Colonial and Post-Colonial Contexts: Implications for Gender-Responsive Governance in the United States · Scholarship · 2026

NATURE AS KIN, THE NOTION OF PERSONHOOD, AND CHALLENGING UNITED STATES LEGAL AND JUDICIAL PRECEDENT · Thesis · 2026

Reconstructing The Role of Notaries in Electronic Commerce : A Notary-Based Digital Authentication Model for Ensuring Legal Certainty in Electronic Contracts · Scholarship · 2026

Ecuador y las relaciones diplomáticas por la paz en el conflicto Cuba-Estados Unidos (Sección Abierta) · Scholarship · 2026

From Animal Welfare to Animal Rights: Evaluating India’s Legal Enforcement Through Constitutional Jurisprudence and Comparative Legal Analysis · Scholarship · 2026

Rights of Nature in the United States: An Empirical Analysis of Local Legal Adoption · Scholarship · 2026

Esports legal status and governance gaps in comparative perspectives on global sports law · Scholarship · 2026

Adaptation-Based Climate Litigation and Climate Justice: A Comparative Legal Analysis with Special Reference to Bangladesh · Scholarship · 2026

A comparative legal analysis of avatar identity and regulatory gaps in virtual reality environments · Scholarship · 2026

SILENT VICTIMS IN ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES: NATURE AS A DAMAGED LEGAL ENTITY WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF VICTIMOLOGY · Scholarship · 2026

Rights of Nature · Book chapter · 2026

Radically Reimagining Expropriation: A Nature-Centered Approach to Just Compensation in the United States · Working paper · 2026

Carbon Pricing for GX and Renewable Energy : The Case of Japan and Comparisons to the United States · Scholarship · 2025

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