Nature Rights: ‘More Than Human Rights’ Project Pushed by NYU Law

How radical are our leading law schools becoming? I wrote recently that Harvard Law School and Harvard University are instituting a class that will teach nature rights. Well, it’s way behind New York University’s School of Law, which recently launched and sponsors the MOTH project — “more than human life” — an initiative of the TERRA (The Earth Rights Research and Action) Program that pushes the nature-rights paradigm toward societal dominance.

MOTH has already published a book — More Than Human Rights — promoting the idea that all of nature has rights and that the age of “human supremacism” must end. This is made clear by the founder of the project, César Rodríguez-Garavito, a NYU law professor whose “current scholarship and legal practice focus on the intersection of climate change, biodiversity, rights of nature and human rights.” He writes in the book’s introduction:

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How radical are our leading law schools becoming? I wrote recently that Harvard Law School and Harvard University are instituting a class that will teach nature rights. Well, it’s way behind New York University’s School of Law, which recently launched and sponsors the MOTH project — “more than human life” — an initiative of the TERRA (The Earth Rights Research and Action) Program that pushes the nature-rights paradigm toward societal dominance.

MOTH has already published a book — More Than Human Rights — promoting the idea that all of nature has rights and that the age of “human supremacism” must end. This is made clear by the founder of the project, César Rodríguez-Garavito, a NYU law professor whose “current scholarship and legal practice focus on the intersection of climate change, biodiversity, rights of nature and human rights.” He writes in the book’s introduction: