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Rights of Nature and Legal Personhood to Bison in Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2021

Laura Shay Lynes
Laura Shay Lynes*
Affiliation:
President at The Resilience Institute (TRI) in Canada.
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Extract

Laura Shay Lynes's presentation focused on the rights of nature and the extent to which it could be used in climate change litigation. One prominent example is the grant of legal personhood to the Whanganui River in New Zealand.

Type
Climate Change Litigation and the Future of the International Climate Change Regime
Information
Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 114 , 2020 , pp. 87
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The American Society of International Law.

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References

1 Laura S. Lynes, The Rights of Nature and the Duty to Consult in Canada, 37 J. Energy & Natural Res. L. 353 (2019).