Does nature have rights?
This lecture is the first organised by King’s College London Faculty of Arts & Humanities and Arizona State University, generously supported by the Aurora and Tedworth Trusts, and marks the beginning of a major collaboration between King’s and ASU in the field of Environmental Humanities.
Professor Sir Jonathan Bate will trace the history of the idea of “the rights of nature” back to the revolutionary period of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and Professor Philippe Sands KC will explain the work of the international panel of legal experts, which he co-chaired, to develop a legal definition of ecocide.
