CRS' Rights of Nature project publishes special edition of Nordic Environmental Law Journal

Now Available: The latest issue of Nordic Environmental Law Journal is a special issue based on our 2023 symposium, “National Interest, Representation and the State: Implications for the Recognition of Rights of Nature.” Project members served as the guest editors for the special issue. The issue contains articles from nearly all presenters during the symposium. It also contains additional articles, including contributions from attendees of the symposium.

All articles from the special edition are freely available on the journal's website:

https://nordiskmiljoratt.se/latest-issue.html.

Contents:

David Langlet: “Editor’s Introduction”

Seth Epstein, Victoria Enkvist, and Marianne Dahlén: “Guest Editor’s Introduction”

Marianne Dahlén and Victoria Enkvist: “Rights of Nature meets the Swedish Constitution”

Seth Epstein and Anton Andersen: “Contemplating Rights of Nature in Sweden: Democratic Legitimacy, Conflict, and Centralization of Power”

Claes Tängh Wrangel: “Dreaming of a Decolonial Language? The Limits of Posthuman Critique in the Anthropocene”

Love Rönnelid: “Rights critique and rights of nature – a guide for developing strategic awareness when attempting to protect nature through legal rights”

Maria Refors Legge: “The Symbolic Nature of Legal Rights”

Jonas Hultin Rosenberg: “The Democratic Inclusion of Nature –Exploring the Categorical Extension of the All-Affected Principle”

Lauren Strumos: “Religion, Nonreligion and Nature’s Rights: What’s the Connection?”

Andreas Brutemark, Maria Brandt and Daniel Schrire: “Reflections on nature experiences and knowledge shaping attitudes towards the rights of nature”

Yaffa Epstein, José Vicente López-Bao and Jeremy Bruskotter: “Most EU Residents Support Rights of Nature Laws”

Lina Langby: “What is valuable in human and non-human nature?”

Fabianne Lenvin: “Intresseavvägningar och implementeringen av naturens rättigheter i svensk rätt”

Fabianne Lenvin; Balance of interests and the implementation of the rights of nature in Swedish law”

Pella Thiel: “Moral imagination for the rights of Nature: An Embassy of the Baltic Sea”

Michael Nausner: “Imagining Mutuality as Base for Rights of Nature. A Theological Perspective on Humanity’s Relation to the More-than-human World”