Last week we began a series on an emerging area of law , earth jurisprudence, with talks from a symposium held at the world's first legal institute devoted exclusively to developing a body of law to give rights to nature. As we heard last week, the creatures and features of the natural world are regarded as property under most law. Our laws no more correspond to the reality of the natural world than does the once accepted idea that the sun revolves around the earth.
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