{"id":69386,"date":"2024-01-10T16:10:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T16:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/?post_type=event&p=69386"},"modified":"2024-01-11T09:30:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T09:30:50","slug":"should-nature-have-rights","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/events\/should-nature-have-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Should nature have rights?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Please join Legal Voices for the Future for our first January knowledge session, hosted in partnership with the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & the Environment.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flora Curtis<\/strong>, Vice Chair of the Legal Voices for the Future Stewardship Committee and barrister at FTB Chambers, will discuss the rights of nature movement, part of the wider earth law movement that seeks to put ecocentrism at the heart of environmental law. This session will be hosted by Joana Setzer,<\/strong> from the Grantham Research Institute. We will explore how modern environmental law has failed to make progress in preventing environmental degradation and will ask the question whether or not a radical shift in the way we relate to the environment is needed in order to prevent further deterioration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Substantive presentation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The substantive presentation will consider the emergence of the modern rights of nature movement and will explore the ways in which rights of nature have been recognised by courts and states across the globe. It will also consider how the rights of nature movement might fit into the UK context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interview with an expert<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This session will include a panel interview with the following guest practitioners and academics who will bring the topic of the presentation to life by discussing their own involvement in the domestic and international rights of nature movements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n