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Apr. 13, 2010
On Bestowing Rights to the Unthinkable
In an excerpt from his 35th edition of "Should Trees Have Standing?" USC law school professor Christopher Stone writes that "each successive extension of rights to some new entity has been, theretofore, a bit unthinkable."
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 35th anniversary edition of this influential book, Christopher D. Stone updates his original thesis with the exploration of recent cases and current events.
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