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A Brook With Legal Rights: The Rights Of Nature In Court, Hope M. Babcock
A Brook With Legal Rights: The Rights Of Nature In Court, Hope M. Babcock
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Over two decades ago, Professor Christopher Stone asked what turned out to be a question of enduring interest: should trees have standing? His question was recently answered in the affirmative by a creek in Pennsylvania, which successfully intervened in a lawsuit between an energy company and a local township to prevent the lifting of a ban against drilling oil and gas wastewater wells. Using that intervention, this Article examines whether such an initiative might succeed on a broader scale. The Article parses the structure, language, and punctuation of Article III, as well as various theories of nonhuman personhood to see …
Book Review Of Bradin Cormack, A Power To Do Justice: Jurisdiction, English Literature, And The Rise Of Common Law, 1509-1625 (2007), Jennifer Locke Davitt
Book Review Of Bradin Cormack, A Power To Do Justice: Jurisdiction, English Literature, And The Rise Of Common Law, 1509-1625 (2007), Jennifer Locke Davitt
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
"A Power to Do Justice" by Bradin Cormack is a scholarly work offering a critical examination of several sixteenth-century literary texts. Cormack shows how those texts reflect a shifting understanding of the legal concept of jurisdiction during that period.