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Litigating Nonhuman Animal Legal Personhood, Richard L. Cupp Jr.
Litigating Nonhuman Animal Legal Personhood, Richard L. Cupp Jr.
Richard L. Cupp Jr.
The Primary Right, Carter Dillard
The Primary Right, Carter Dillard
Carter Dillard
As climate change materializes, legal theorists face the urgent need to develop a normative baseline for environmental regulation. Meanwhile, in the seemingly unrelated field of political exit theory, theorists have presumed that while one ought to be able to exit any polity one cannot exit all polities. This essay challenges that presumption, and simultaneously addresses the baseline problem in environmental law, by combining the analyses to develop a new human right derived from exit right theory called the primary right: a general claim-right of reasonable access to wilderness. The derivation is simple: If consent is necessary to justify political association, …