Doctoral Dissertation Research: How New Legal Doctrine Shapes Human-Environment Relations

博士论文研究：新法律学说如何塑造人类与环境的关系

• 批准号: 2315219
• 负责人: John Hartigan
• 金额: $ 3.15万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-03-01 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2315219&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; How; New

This project examines an experimental legal doctrine that defines environmental entities as legal subjects for the purposes of adjudicating land tenure and other resource disputes. Typically, laws treat environmental entities (such as rivers and mountains) as objects of ownership or protection. The new doctrine proposes a dramatic shift in the ways that laws deal with the environment. The research looks at a sociolegal context where legal experts are struggling to figure out how to implement a law that claims a river is a legal subject. In training a student in methods of scientific data collection and analysis, this research project would develop systems for better understanding of how the rights of nature framework is changing human relationships with the environment. The project also broadens the participation of underrepresented groups in science.This doctoral research project explores what implications a legal paradigm emphasizing the rights of nature doctrine has for transforming sociolegal relations between human and environmental systems. To carry out this project, the researchers are using a two-pronged approach. On the one hand, the researchers are conducting a series of standardized interviews with judges who have written rights of nature laws. On the other hand, the researchers are using semi-structured observational methods to study a committee that has been judicially mandated as the legal representative of a river. This research design helps the investigators to understand the rights of nature from both the practical side of policy implementation as well as the more theoretical side of policy conceptualization. On a scholarly level, this project contributes to theories in legal anthropological and sociolegal studies about the role of bureaucracy in social life.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目研究了一项实验性法律原则，该原则将环境实体定义为法律主体，以裁决土地保有权和其他资源纠纷。通常，法律将环境实体（例如河流和山脉）视为所有权或保护的对象。新学说提出了法律处理环境问题的方式的巨大转变。该研究着眼于社会法律背景，法律专家正在努力弄清楚如何实施一项声称河流是法律主体的法律。在培训学生科学数据收集和分析方法时，该研究项目将开发系统，以更好地理解自然权利框架如何改变人类与环境的关系。该项目还扩大了代表性不足的群体在科学领域的参与。该博士研究项目探讨了强调自然权利原则的法律范式对于改变人类与环境系统之间的社会法律关系的影响。为了开展这个项目，研究人员采用了双管齐下的方法。一方面，研究人员正在对拥有自然法成文权利的法官进行一系列标准化访谈。另一方面，研究人员正在使用半结构化观察方法来研究一个被司法授权为河流法定代表人的委员会。这种研究设计有助于研究人员从政策实施的实践方面以及政策概念化的理论方面理解自然权利。在学术层面上，该项目为关于官僚机构在社会生活中的作用的法律人类学和社会法学研究理论做出了贡献。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。