YAFFA EPSTEIN: "Developing Rights of Nature Jurisprudence in Europe"
- Date: 13 February 2024, 10:15–12:00
- Location: SCAS, Thunbergssalen, Linneanum, Thunbergsvägen 2
- Type: Seminar
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- Organiser: Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS)
- Contact person: Sandra Rekanovic
Yaffa Epstein (Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study & Uppsala University) will give a seminar on the topic “Developing Rights of Nature Jurisprudence in Europe". The seminar will be followed by a Q&A session.
ABSTRACT:
Rights of nature laws, which recognize legal rights for natural entities such as ecosystems, bodies of water, or even Mother Earth, have been enacted in a growing number of jurisdictions around the world. This legal tool has gained the greatest traction in Latin America, where a lack of effective environmental laws helped spur legal innovation. In 2022, Spain enacted the first European rights of nature law, granting legal personhood and other rights to the Mar Menor Lagoon and its basin. Several other European jurisdictions have or are considering following suit. In this presentation, I discuss some challenges as well as possibilities for these new laws to be effective in European legal systems.