Rights of Nature and Legal Personality of Natural Entities in New Zeland: Making a Commons?
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https://doi.org/10.63277/gsc.v38i.4476Keywords:
Legal person, Nature as Legal Person, Whanganui River, Representation, Representative claim, Rights of natureAbstract
In various doctrines and developments around the world, various “rights of nature” have been incorporated into the constitutions of several countries or international non binding agreements while legal recognition of nature or natural entities as having legal personality can be seen as emerging. A growing number of theories are also seeking how to represent the “Nature” or natural world. As the main issue was the property of a river and a park, to recognize these entities as legal person as it was done in New Zealand, makes a complex form of a common (or a sort of).
