The ‘Earth Jurisprudence’ (EJ) Lecture Series, introducing Earth Jurisprudence in Korea, is aimed at finding solutions to resolve the harmful consequences, which come from the current human-centered industrialization, and to implement an environment favorable to research and the fostering of new abilities. Since 2015, lecture series has been held four times a year in partnership with the Pro Bono Center of One Law Partners. This lecture series constitutes a training program for judicial officers, lawyers and law-students, and is accredited by the Korean Bar Association (KBA) and responsible for playing important roles in transforming governance-systems.
Sun-Hee Kim, a former senior researcher at the Constitutional Research Institute, delivered Lecture 2 of the 2023 Earth Jurisprudence Lecture with the topic "Earth Jurisprudence Judgments in North America and Other Regions".
I. Significance and Development of Rights of Nature
Earth Jurisprudence and Rights of Nature; Rights of Nature, a subcategory of Earth Jurisprudence
The concept and history of Rights of Nature
contnets of the Rights of Nature
II. International discussion of the Rights of Nature
UN: 1982 United Nations Charter for Nature
European Union: EU Charter of Fundamental Rights of Nature and its three guiding principles
Bolivia: 2010 Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth
the International Union for the Conservation of Nature
Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN)
Earth Law Center
Oslo Manifesto
III. Protecting Rights of Nature through positive law
New Zealand: Te Urewera Act (2014) and Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act (2017)
Uganda: Environmental Law (2019)
Australia: The Yarra River Protection (Wilip-gin Birrarung murron) Act (2017)
Canada: Legal Entity Recognition Resolution for the Magpie River
United States of America: Pennsylvania, Ohio, California, Florida, Native American Tribal Nations
IV. Guaranteeing the Rights of Nature through legal decisions
India: Judgment of the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers and Himalayan Glaciers
Bangladesh: Judgment on the Turag River
Pakistan: Supreme Court decision on environmentally fragile zones, "Negative Areas" (2021)
V. Evaluation and Recapitulation
VI. Q & A
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