There is increasing support, in international legal theory and advocacy, for water
governance approaches that go beyond the technocratic, and recognise the reciprocal …

Exploring the intricate relationship between individual and collective experiences, this study
explores dignity from the perspectives of people with disability. Using an extreme citizen …

Abstract Purpose Based on a 2022 Speech Pathology Australia National Conference
keynote address, the author explores the concept of autonomy and how it can be …

The transnational movement to recognise the rights of Nature continues to fuel
experimentation by a growing number of jurisdictions in legal form, content, powers, and …

Representation is a core component of Rights of Nature (RoN). While giving a human voice
to more-than-humans might be seen as anthropocentric, RoN is one of the best tools …

There is now a large body of scholarly literature on the legal and governance arrangements
for the Whanganui River in Aotearoa New Zealand, given the rights of a legal person under …

The twenty-first century has already been characterised by substantive shifts in theory and
law on legal personhood. 1 There have been profound legal commitments to the full …

Relationships with rivers in British Columbia are often imbued with social and material
toxicity. Learning from three sources of law in British Columbia—Indigenous, Canadian, and …

This paper explores two concepts of recent interest to Keebet von Benda-Beckmann,
including notions of personhood as expressed in the law and diverse felt obligations of care …

The prominence of robots as interdependent social agents continues to grow, leading to
important conversations about legal and ethical considerations not just for humans, but also …