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Environmental personhood: Philosophical foundations in Tantric ecology

open access: yes
The emergent trend of granting legal personhood to natural entities – environmental personhood – is a promising approach to nature's conservation. This inquiry explores its philosophical foundations and prerequisites for successful implementation.
Kochetkova, Tatjana   +1 more
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‘We Are Australia’: Unpacking Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People's Understandings and Experiences of Australian Identity

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the oldest living custodians in the world. However, Australian identity has been purposefully established to exclude Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, contributing to systemic oppression and harmful consequences. Understanding the perspectives and experiences of Aboriginal and Torres
Jack Farrugia, Jonathan Bullen
wiley   +1 more source

US AND THE OTHERS: NOTION OF PERSON IN THE NATIONAL CONGRESS DEBATES ABOUT INDIGENOUS INFANTICIDE

open access: yesEspaço Ameríndio, 2014
This essay reflects upon the contrasting conceptions of personhood which pervade the legal debate surrounding indigenous infanticide. For the defenders of the Muwaji Law - as the Project of Law 1057/07 became known, which proposes the criminalization of ...
Marlise Mirta Rosa
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Rights for and with animals

open access: yes(Des)troços
Drawing from Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of the body, care ethics, and philosophy of ethology, this interdisciplinary article depicts beyond-human animals not as more or less like typical adult human beings, but rather as embodied, vulnerable ...
Anna Caramuru Pessoa Aubert
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Legal Personhood of Nature

open access: yes
This article offers a critical assessment of the technique of granting legal personhood to nature, based on the observation, from various legal fields, that such recognition has not led to tangible improvements in environmental protection. Firstly, it is questioned whether this formula is legally desirable in the Spanish legal system.
openaire   +1 more source

The Radial Conception of Legal Personhood in Seven Theses [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper summarizes the Radial Conception of legal personhood in seven theses. On this view, legal personhood resists checklist definitions; it is a category anchored in a paradigmatic central case formed by the convergence of entrenched (and idealised)
Novelli, Claudio
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Barriers and Enablers for Effective Support Coordination in the National Disability Insurance Scheme

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Support coordinators act as intermediaries between the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and participants, facilitating access to funded supports. To optimise outcomes, they must navigate NDIS complexities, identify services that meet individual needs and engage with diverse stakeholders.
Sharyn McDonald   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vicente de Paula Ataide Jr. Introdução ao direito animal: A teoria das capacidades jurídicas animais

open access: yesDerecho Animal
Introdução ao direito animal: A teoria das capacidades jurídicas animais by Vicente de Paula Ataide Jr. is a trailblazing contribution and a mandatory source for those dedicated to the research and effectiveness of Animal Law in Brazil and overseas. The
Deborah Regina Lambach Ferreira da Costa
doaj   +1 more source

Artificial Intelligence and Access to Justice at the ‘Shop Front’: The Potential and Limitations of Meeting Legal Need Through Technology

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Australia, governments fund Community Legal Centres (CLCs) as part of the legal assistance sector (LAS) to meet the ‘legal needs’ of people experiencing disadvantage who cannot afford private legal services. Persistent unmet demand for CLCs is well‐documented. As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in private legal practice to
Catherine Hastings   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Should great apes have 'human rights'? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Celebrating 60 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides an opportune moment to ask whether it is time for the other great apes to be granted ‘human rights’.
Rook, Deborah
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