"Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America" analyses legal and constitutional developments in all states or regions outside of Europe as well as their regional and international integration. Founded in 1968 and inspired by decolonization and the idea of a cooperative new beginning, the Journal also promotes a special interest in contributions on 'Law and development'. The journal aims to provide a forum for a variety of perspectives on these fields of interest, be they focused on one country or comparative, theoretical or methodological in nature. Next to extensive articles, the journal publishes shorter reports about current events or conferences as well as book reviews. As a special service, each issue of "Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America" contains an international bibliography of relevant publications from around the world. This is compiled in cooperation with the Leibniz-Institute for Global and Regional Studies in Hamburg (GIGA). "Law and Politics" addresses authors and readers on all continents and aims to serve as a forum of mutual exchange. The journal is open for contributions from legal and social sciences as well as for analyses from practitioners. The journal is published quarterly and welcomes contributions in German, English, Spanish and French. Website: www.vrue.nomos.de
The law is deeply anthropocentric and tends to exclude nature from court proceedings. Consequently, in most states, pollution and destruction of ecosystems or animal abuse cannot be challenged directly by nature. This has been challengend constantly...
The author proposes a methodological exercise of transfer of concepts, norms and principles created in the Ecuadorian legal system - which recognizes Nature as a subject of Rights, and of the right to access justice in particular - to the facts that...
An increasing number of countries are recognising rights of nature across the world. In Germany, however, such rights largely remain uncharted territory with respect to dogmatics. The German legal system is essentially based on an anthropocentric...
The constraint posed by the cost of litigating environmental issues has made public interest litigation (PIL) to be a veritable tool for environmental protection and the realization of the right to a healthy environment in Nigeria. Environmental PIL...
Legal academia has historically been diligent in examining legal knowledge as a method of interacting with, controlling, or transforming the world. However, it has been only tangentially concerned with the discourses and practices that constitute...