Description
Book SynopsisThis book re-imagines law as ecolaw.
The key insight of ecological thinking, that everything is connected to everything else at least on the earth, and possibly in the cosmos has become a truism of contemporary theory. Taking this insight as a starting point for understanding law involves suspending theoretical certainties and boundaries. It involves suspending theory itself as a conceptual project and practicing it as an embodied and material project. Although an ecological imagining of law can be metaphorical, and can be highly imaginative and suggestive, this book shows that it is also literal. Law is part of the material everything' that is connected to everything else. This means that once the previous certainties of legal thinking have been dismantled, it is after all possible to think of law as natural' as embedded in and emergent from a normative biophysical nature. The book proposes that there exists a natural nomos: animals, plants, and Earth systems that p
Table of Contents
Introduction, 1. A New Living Law, 2. Teleologies of the Nonhuman, 3. Biogenesis and Jurisgenesis, 4. Geolaw as Flow and Stasis, 5. Law, Nature, and Legal Theory Conclusion
