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The Rights of Nature — Can an Ecosystem Bear Legal Rights?

Law Columbia

In 2020, a federal judge ruled that the Lake Erie Bill of Rights is “invalid in its entirety” based on the premise that the law itself was “unconstitutionally vague” and exceeded municipal powers. By Tiffany Challe*. Photo by Mark Koch on Unsplash. Climate litigation using the rights of nature. Province of Entre Ríos, et al.