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41 Vt. L. Rev. 129 (2016-2017)
Building an Alternative Jurisprudence for the Earth: The International Rights of Nature Tribunal

handle is hein.journals/vlr41 and id is 137 raw text is: BUILDING AN ALTERNATIVE JURISPRUDENCE FOR THE EARTH: THE INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS OF NATURE TRIBUNAL Dr. Michelle Maloney, Australian Earth Laws Alliance*t INTRODUCTION. ................................................. 129 I. THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE RIGHTS OF NATURE AND MOTHER EARTH .............................. ...... 130 II. EARTH JURISPRUDENCE, WILD LAW, AND THE RIGHTS OF NATURE. ............................................. ....... 131 III. THE GLOBAL ALLIANCE AND ITS CREATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS OF NATURE TRIBUNAL ..................... 135 IV. REGIONAL CHAMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS OF NATURE TRIBUNAL: THE EXAMPLE OF AUSTRALIA'S RIGHTS OF NATURE TRIBUNAL .............................. ...... 136 V. PEOPLES' TRIBUNALS IN THE 20TH AND 21ST CENTURIES .................. 139 CONCLUSION: THE POSSIBLE IMPACTS OF RIGHTS OF NATURE TRIBUNALS ..................................... ....... 141 INTRODUCTION In January 2014, members of the civil society network, Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, held the world's first International Tribunal for the Rights of Nature and Mother Earth (International Tribunal) in Quito, Ecuador. Since that time, the International Tribunal has met in Lima, Peru and Paris, France in parallel with the Conference of Parties for UN climate change negotiations, and Regional Chambers of the International Tribunal have been held in the United States and Australia.' Given that the International Tribunal has emerged from civil society rather than state- centered international law, and given that countries like Australia and the United States do not recognize, in State or Federal law, the intrinsic rights of plants, animals, or ecosystems to exist, what possible benefits do Rights * Dr. Michelle Maloney is the National Convenor of the Australian Earth Laws Alliance (www.earthlaws.org.au) and is based in Brisbane, Australia. She can be contacted on convenor@earthlaws.org.au. t The author would like to thank Gill Boehringer for reading an early draft of this article, and Stephanie Griffin for assisting with research about Permanent Peoples' Tribunals. Your support is greatly appreciated. 1. International Rights of Nature Tribunal, GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR RTs. NATURE, http://therightsofnature.org/rights-of-nature-tribunal (last visited Nov. 23, 2016).

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