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Could Happy the elephant follow an Ecuadorian monkey into legal ...
When the case came before Ecuador's Constitutional Court in December 2021, the judges had a number of questions to consider. Not least, what is ...
Ecuador court ruling leaves a legal gray area in environmental ...
17, Ecuador's highest court ruled in favor of Indigenous and local communities by rejecting a controversial decree that promised to shape how ...
Rights of Nature: Protecting Wild Animals in the Anthropocene
In this on-demand CLE, Erica Lyman, Clinical Professor and Director of our Global Law Alliance for Animals and the Environment (GLA), ...
In a first, Ecuador has become the first country by expanding its legal rights to cover wild animals, getting them the rights they deserve ...
Ecuador's High Court Rules That Wild Animals Have Legal Rights
I was honored to be one of the authors of an amicus brief relied on by the Constitutional Court of Ecuador in deciding that “animals are the ...
Animal Law Digest: Search Articles | the Brooks Institute
The National Assembly in Ecuador published a Bill on Animal Law, which would establish protections for animals as part of a vulnerable group. The Constitutional ...
Traditional Conceptions of the Legal Person and Nonhuman Animals
The legal system does not consider nonhuman animals as legal persons but as property or as sentient beings regulated by the rules of property. Throughout ...
Los derechos de la naturaleza en la jurisprudencia de la Corte ...
Since 2008, Ecuador has constitutionally recognized Nature as a rights holder; however, the Constitutional Court has played a preponderant role ...
Indian Court Rules That Nature Has Legal Status on Par With ...
The case is the latest in a series of so-called “rights of nature” laws and court rulings that aim to give ecosystems, animals and elements of ...
Rights of Nature FAQ - International Joint Commission
In 2003, Wild Law ... In 2018, the Colombian Supreme Court recognized the Colombian Amazon as a “subject of ... This is the first law to secure legal rights of a ...
The rights of nature: A preliminary analysis of the recent case law of ...
The rights of nature: A preliminary analysis of the recent case law of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court ... Since 2008, the Ecuadorian ...
Rights of Nature: Timeline - Protecting Nature and Communities
The Ecuadorian Constitutional Court agreed to hear a case based on the Rights of Nature enshrined in Ecuador's Constitution. It will hear arguments in a ...
Trailblazing Captive Animals Are Changing Human Laws
“This case is a breakthrough because it's the first time that a court in Latin America has recognized that animals have constitutional rights.
Rights of nature and rivers in Ecuador's Constitutional Court
Perhaps surprisingly, given the general thrust of the literature so far, it shows that Indigenous law has been minimally important in this case.
Chile Supreme Court Dismisses Orangutan 'Personhood' Petition
And earlier this year, the Constitutional Court in Ecuador recognised that a similar rights of nature provision in the Ecuadorian constitution ...
The Constitutional Court of Ecuador entered a landmark ruling on the rights of nature in January when it recognized the legitimacy of a ...
Constitutional Court of Ecuador ... the constitution—even when it was directly related to the subject ... free animal behavior; to the behavior of wild animals ...
Colombia's Constitutional Court ruled that the Atrato River possesses rights to “protection, conservation, maintenance and restoration”, and established joint ...
This Ecuadorian forest thrived amid deforestation after being ... - BBC
In 2008, Ecuador became the first country to change its constitution to state that nature has the same rights as people. The change was led by ...
Let There Be Rights, But… - The Young Environmentalist
In the judgment released in January this year, the court ruled that Ecuador's rights of nature laws apply to wild animals like Estrellita. Wild ...