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By Bill Donohue | June 2, 2021 | 4:16pm EDT Professor Christopher D. Stone gives an interview with his school. (Photo credit: YouTube/USC Gould School of Law) Christopher D. Stone is not exactly a household name, but he clearly left his mark on the "rights" movement. The University of Southern California law professor recently died. More well-known was his father, I.F. Stone, whom the New York Timesobituary on Stone called a "crusading reporter." They left o...

Christopher Stone, Who Proposed Legal Rights for Trees, Dies at 83 A law review article he wrote in 1972 kick-started a worldwide movement to grant nature the same rights enjoyed by human beings. Christopher D. Stone in an undated photo. “I am quite seriously proposing,” he wrote in an influential article, “that we give legal rights to forests, oceans, rivers and other so-called ‘natural objects’ in the environment.”Credit...via USC Gould School of Law May 28, 2021, 5:13 p.m. ET Chr...

This river in Canada is now a ‘legal person’ Jillian Kestler-DAmours © The Magpie River, a 300km waterway in the Cote Nord region of the Canadian province of Quebec, was r... The Magpie River, a 300km waterway in the Cote Nord region of the Canadian province of Quebec, was recognised as a legal person in February [Courtesy Uapukun Metokosho/International Observatory on the Rights of Nature] Montreal, Canada – Jean-Charles Pietacho says the belief that nature is a living...