Over the past decade and a half, various natural entities have been recognised as having
rights or legal personhood in certain domestic jurisdictions. The idea of nature as rights …

Indigenous Water Rights in Law and Regulation responds to an unresolved question in
legal scholarship: how are (or how might be) indigenous peoples' rights included in …

Both posthuman theory and the rights of nature (RoN) movement have the potential to
challenge the anthropocentrism of international environmental law (IEL). Scholars have …

We are delighted to present the first Routledge Handbook of Socio-Legal Theory and
Methods, a collection that showcases the breadth of work animating contemporary socio …

This book examines the relationship between gender and crime and explores both the
gendered nature of crime alongside the gendered nature of criminal victimisation. Covering …

This book brings the insights of theatre theory to law, legal interpretation and the
jurisprudential to reshape law as a practice of response and responsibility. Confronting a …

The global ecological crisis is now well documented. 1 Throughout the twentieth century, we
have seen unprecedented deforestation, biodiversity loss, air and water pollution and the …

Since the early 2000s, many of the left groups that spurred the alt-globalization movement
have embraced directly democratic organizing and the creation of ethical relationships and …

Protecting forests is an increasingly essential and urgent priority to address the climate and
biodiversity crises. These forests are home to communities, often Indigenous communities …

Feminist approaches to international law have been mischaracterised by the mainstream of
the discipline as being a niche field that pertains only to women's lived experiences and …