“Wildlife as Property Owners” – Karen Bradshaw (Arizona State University)
May 25, 2022
5:00 pm CEST / 11:00 am EST
(This seminar will be conducted in English)  

Zoom : https://u-paris2-fr.zoom.us/j/95964577023?pwd=Qk5CL3pKUTZoOWgycmJUTDhkM1E0Zz09

Humankind coexists with every other living thing. People drink the same water, breathe the same air, and share the same land as other animals. Yet, property law reflects a general assumption that only people can own land. The effects of this presumption are disastrous for wildlife and humans alike. The alarm bells ringing about biodiversity loss are growing louder, and the possibility of mass extinction is real. Anthropocentric property is a key driver of biodiversity loss, a silent killer of species worldwide. But as law and sustainability scholar Karen Bradshaw shows, if excluding animals from a legal right to own land is causing their destruction, extending the legal right to own property to wildlife may prove its salvation. Wildlife as Property Owners advocates for folding animals into our existing system of property law, giving them the opportunity to own land just as humans do—to the betterment of all.

Karen Bradshaw is a Professor of Law and the Mary Sigler Fellow at Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. She is concurrently a Faculty Affiliate Scholar at the New York University School of Law Classical Liberal Institute and Senior Sustainability Scientist at the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University.


This seminar is co-organised by the CRED and CERSA laboratories of Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas and the ECN Team (Environment : Concepts and Norms) of the Institut Jean Nicod at the École Normale Supérieure.

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For more information about the seminar series:
http://www.institutnicod.org/seminaires-colloques/seminaires/law-economics-of-nature/?lang=en