Law and Ecology: Literary and Philosophical Perspectives
On March 27, 2019, I'll be directing an invited seminar for PhD researchers at Ghent University in Belgium. The seminar is called "Law and Ecology: Literary and Philosophical Perspectives." Here's what we'll be thinking about: The Anglo-American legal tradition is fundamentally anthropocentric and individualist. As the legal philosopher Desmond Manderson observes, criminal law, contract law, property law, and even constitutional law all start “with the assumed primacy of ‘I’,
