Uppsala University, Faculty of Law, Uppsala, Sweden.
Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, Sweden.
Science. 2023 May 19;380(6646):eadf4155. doi: 10.1126/science.adf4155.
We review the use of science by lawmakers and courts in implementing or rejecting legal rights for nature in Ecuador, India, the United States, and other jurisdictions where some type of rights of nature have been recognized in the legal system. We then use the "right to evolve" to exemplify how interdisciplinary work can (i) help courts effectively define what this right might entail; (ii) inform how it might be applied in different circumstances; and (iii) provide a template for how scientists and legal scholars can generate the interdisciplinary scholarship necessary to understand and implement the growing body of rights-of-nature laws, and environmental law more generally. We conclude by pointing to what further research is needed to understand and effectively implement the growing body of rights-of-nature laws.
我们回顾了立法者和法院在厄瓜多尔、印度、美国和其他一些在法律体系中承认某种形式的自然权利的司法管辖区中，利用科学来实施或拒绝自然权利的情况。然后，我们使用“进化权”来说明跨学科工作如何能够：（i）帮助法院有效地定义这项权利可能包含的内容；（ii）告知如何在不同情况下适用；以及（iii）为科学家和法律学者提供一个模板，以生成理解和实施日益增多的自然权利法以及更广泛的环境法所需的跨学科学术研究。最后，我们指出需要进一步研究以理解和有效实施日益增多的自然权利法。
