Should Trees Have Standing? Law, Morality, and the Environment

Stone, Christopher D. Should Trees Have Standing? Cover of the third edition (2010)

Stone, Christopher D. Should Trees Have Standing? Cover of the third edition (2010)

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Stone, Christopher D. Should Trees Have Standing? Law, Morality, and the Environment. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

“Originally published in 1972, Should Trees Have Standing? was a rallying point for the then burgeoning environmental movement, launching a worldwide debate on the basic nature of legal rights that reached the U.S. Supreme Court. Now, in the thirty-fifth anniversary edition, Christopher D. Stone updates his original thesis and explores the impact his ideas have had on the courts, the academy, and society as a whole. At the heart of the book is a compelling argument that the environment should be granted legal rights.

For the new edition, Stone explores a variety of recent cases and current events—and related topics such as climate change and protecting the oceans—providing a survey of the past and glimpse at the future of the environmental movement.” (Text adapted from Oxford University Press website)