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18 Penn St. Envtl. L. Rev. 47 (2009-2010)
What Is Earth Jurisprudence: Key Principles to Transform Law for the Health of the Planet

handle is hein.journals/pensaenlar18 and id is 49 raw text is: What is Earth Jurisprudence?: Key Principles to Transform Law for the Health of the Planet Judith E. Koons* But we have only begun to love the earth. We have only begun to imagine the fullness of life. How could we tire of hope? - so much is in the bud. - Denise Levertovl I. INTRODUCTION Earth Jurisprudence is an emerging legal theory based on the premise that rethinking law and governance is necessary for the well- being of Earth and all of its inhabitants.2 Earth Jurisprudence is an * Professor of Law, Barry University School of Law, Orlando, Florida. B.A., J.D., University of Florida, M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School. Copyright, Judith E. Koons, 2009. Co-chair of the governing committee of the Center for Earth Jurisprudence (CEJ), a collaborative initiative of St. Thomas and Barry Universities. I am grateful for the philosophical groundwork of Thomas Berry and Cormac Cullinan, the spiritual leadership of Sr. Patricia Siemen, O.P., J.D., the insightful comments of CEJ members Mary Munson, Jane Goddard, and Nicole Gerard, and the helpful research assistance of Tim Martin, Erin Cox, Lisabeth Fryer, and Jimmy Davis. All errors are my own. 1. Denise Levertov, Beginners, in JOAN CHITTISTER, THE CRY OF THE PROPHET: A CALL TO FULLNESS OF LIFE 55 (Mary Lou Kownacki ed., 2009). 2. The term Earth Jurisprudence arose out of a meeting hosted by the Gaia Foundation with environmental thinker Thomas Berry in April of 2001 at the Airlie Center in Virginia. See CORMAC CULLINAN, WILD LAW: A MANIFESTO FOR EARTH JUSTICE 17 (2d. ed. 2003). The major works of Thomas Berry are THE DREAM OF THE EARTH (1988), THE UNIVERSE STORY (co-authored with Brian Swimme, 1992), THE GREAT WORK (1999), and EVENING THOUGHTS (2006). Chief among other works significant to the spawning of Earth Jurisprudence are Christopher D. Stone, Should 47

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