The Trees Are Still Standing: The Backstory of
            <i>Sierra Club v. Morton</i>

McKeown, Mick

doi:10.1111/jsch.12210

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“…Although Justice Douglas shared Stone’s concern about the urgency of protecting nature—he was personally committed to nature conservation and had been a member of the Sierra Club (McKeown 2019)—what he was trying to address was primarily a technical issue: the question of the possibility to sue on behalf of a natural element. It was for him a procedural tool, as is the case for ships or corporations which, despite being inanimate objects or abstract entities, have the status of legal persons.…”

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A Tale of Many Battles: Arguing Legal Personhood for Animals in the United States and India

Berti

2023

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In this article, I focus on how the issue of considering animals as legal persons has been argued in court by the Nonhuman Rights Project led by Steven Wise in the United States and how this project was recently adopted and reinterpreted by an animal rights organisation in India in preparation for their own court battle. In turn, Indian cases raising the question of the legal personhood of animals and rivers have been used by Wise as examples to argue his case in court. The comparison will raise the question of how legal ideas and strategies regarding so-called ‘rights of nature’ travel around the world, giving rise to reciprocal appropriations and possible idealisations.

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A Tale of Many Battles: Arguing Legal Personhood for Animals in the United States and India

Berti

2023

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The Trees Are Still Standing: The Backstory of Sierra Club v. Morton

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A Tale of Many Battles: Arguing Legal Personhood for Animals in the United States and India

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