Experiments with the Extension of Legal Personality to Ecosystems and Beyond-Human Organisms: Challenges and Opportunities for Company Law

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dc.contributor.authorJefferson, David
dc.contributor.authorMacpherson, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.authorMoe , Steven
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-27T22:44:10Z
dc.date.available2023-08-27T22:44:10Z
dc.date.issued2023en
dc.date.updated2023-05-30T07:33:11Z
dc.description.abstractin recent years, a number of jurisdictions have recognized diverse ecosystems and other-than-human organisms as legal persons. From national constitutions and legislation to subnational judicial decisions and ordinances, these legal experiments have extended legal personality to riverine and terrestrial ecological communities, including vast geographical areas and the beyond-human beings that inhabit them. A growing body of literature engages with these developments and, in particular, their consequences for states and governments. However, few analyses have considered the practical implications they may present for private organizations operating under company law. We address this research gap and explore potential challenges and opportunities that the recognition of ecosystems as legal persons may create for private legal persons, especially corporations. We also discuss the possible impacts and opportunities of the expansion of legal personality on company law and corporate practice more broadly, arguing for a reimagination of company law. This reimagination embraces an ethics of reciprocity, responsibility, and relationality between corporate entities, and ecological and human communities.en
dc.identifier.citationJefferson DJ, Macpherson E, Moe S Experiments with the Extension of Legal Personality to Ecosystems and Beyond-Human Organisms: Challenges and Opportunities for Company Law. Transnational Environmental Law. 1-23.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.1017/s2047102523000079
dc.identifier.issn2047-1025
dc.identifier.issn2047-1033
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/106052
dc.languageen
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherCambridge University Press (CUP)en
dc.rightsTransnational Environmental Law, page 1 of 23 © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited. doi:10.1017/S2047102523000079en
dc.rights.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651en
dc.subjectecosystem rights
dc.subjectbeyond-human rights
dc.subjectlegal personality
dc.subjectrights of nature
dc.subjectcompany law
dc.subject.anzsrc48 - Law and legal studies::4801 - Commercial law::480103 - Corporations and associations law
dc.subject.anzsrc48 - Law and legal studies::4802 - Environmental and resources law::480299 - Environmental and resources law not elsewhere classified
dc.titleExperiments with the Extension of Legal Personality to Ecosystems and Beyond-Human Organisms: Challenges and Opportunities for Company Lawen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
uc.collegeFaculty of Law
uc.departmentFaculty of Law
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