Law as if Earth Really Mattered by Nicole Rogers, Michelle Ma... - 9781138669086

Taylor & Francis

Law as if Earth Really MatteredThe Wild Law Judgment Project\nAuthor(s): Nicole Rogers, Michelle Maloney\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138669086, 978-1138669086\nSynopsis\nThis book is a collection of judgments drawn from the innovative Wild Law Judgment Project. In participating in the Wild Law Judgment Project, which was inspired by various feminist judgment projects, contributors have creatively reinterpreted judicial decisions from an Earth-centred point of view by rewriting existing judgments, or creating fictional judgments, as wild law. Authors have confronted the specific challenges of aligning existing Western legal systems with Thomas Berrys philosophy of Earth jurisprudence through judgment writing and rewriting. This book thus opens up judicial decision-making and the common law to critical scrutiny from a wild law or Earth-centred perspective.\n\nBased upon ecocentric rather than human-centred or .