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The Gnat Is Older Than Man: Global Environment and Human Agenda. By Christopher D. Stone. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Pp. xxv, 330. Index. $21.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Stephen C. McCaffrey
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 88 , Issue 3 , July 1994 , pp. 567 - 569
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1994

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References

1 The quote is from Mahbubul Haq, a special adviser to the United Nations Development Programme.

2 86 AJIL 445 (1992).

3 Christopher D. Stone, Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects (1974).

4 See, e.g., pp. 51–53 passim, 55–56 (& n.14), 59, 61.

5 “The ICJ hands down edicts based on whatever general principles of international law the justices find to be applicable” (p. 60, note *).