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Supreme Court Of The United States, October Term 2016 Preview, Georgetown University Law Center, Supreme Court Institute
Supreme Court Of The United States, October Term 2016 Preview, Georgetown University Law Center, Supreme Court Institute
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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
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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 …