Audio of “Experiments with the Extension of Legal Personality to Ecosystems and Beyond-Human Organisms: Challenges and Opportunities for Company Law”, published by the Transnational Environmental Law Journal

This is the audio of me reading an article published by the Transnational Environmental Law Journal, which I co-wrote with two academics from the University of Canterbury, David Jefferson and Elizabeth Macpherson, called “Experiments with the Extension of Legal Personality to Ecosystems and Beyond-Human Organisms: Challenges and Opportunities for Company Law”. Below each place in the audio is indexed.

To read the article this is the website link at the Transnational Environmental Law Journal.

Index

  • 01:51: Abstract
  • 03:15: Part 1: Introduction
  • 09:46: Part 2: The Company law dimensions of legal personality for ecosystems and behind-human beings. Setting a research agenda
  • 16:12: Part 3: The nature of companies and ecosystems as legal persons
  • 35:05: Part 4: Relationships between Companies and Ecological Communities as legal persons: A Though Experiment
  • 46:48: Part 5: Reflections on the possibilities for a reimagination of Company law
  • 54:39: Acknowledgments

Thank you to the Transnational Environmental Law Journal for permission to publish this in audio form – and hope it makes it more accessible for others.

Earlier article also co-written for the Institute of Directors on similiar topic with the same co-authours is here: “The future of corporate governance: what if the trees had a say?”

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