Rights of Nature Reach Europe - The Mar Menor Case in Spain in the Light of Latin American Precedents Fuchs, Marie-Christine Author aut Text xx# 2023 Verfassungsblog 2023-02-24 eng
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 On September 30, 2022, the Spanish Senate approved the "Mar Menor Act" (Law 19/2022) which granted legal personality to the Mar Menor lagoon and its basin. Being the first legal text in Europe to recognize a natural entity as a subject of rights, it is one more piece in the mosaic of a global movement towards ecological justice, which tries to find strong legal answers in times of global ecological crisis. In fact, the Spanish landmark decision follows the precedents of countries such as Colombia, Ecuador, New Zealand, India and the United States. In this context, it is worth asking whether the legal and socio-cultural bases of the concept of the rights of nature, as developed in the aforementioned cases, especially in those stemming from Latin America, are also sustainable in Europe and for the Mar Menor case. CC BY-SA 4.0 Fuchs, Marie-Christine Environmental Protection Legal Personality Mar Menor RIghts of Nature Spain 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/rights-of-nature-reach-europe/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20230224-185211-0 230224 10.17176/20230224-185211-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)