On Tuesday, December 12, 2023 (4:00pm, Madrid), Professor María Teresa Vicente Giménez, Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Murcia, will participate in the LXXIII session of the Amuchastegui Permanent Seminar with the presentation: «Nature as a Subject of Rights: The Case of the Legal Personality Recognition of the Mar Menor Lagoon».
With comments by Rosa María Giles Carnero (University of Huelva) and Digno Montalván Zambrano (Carlos III University of Madrid).
Teresa Vicente is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law and Director of the Chair of Human Rights and Rights of Nature at the University of Murcia. Her research and academic publications have focused on ecological justice, social rights, legal feminism, children’s rights, and new paradigms of International Criminal Justice. Since 2019, she has promoted, together with a group of lawyers, scientists, and activists, the Popular Legislative Initiative that led to Law 19/2022, of September 30, recognizing the legal personality of the Mar Menor Lagoon and its basin.
Event Details
Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Time: 4:00pm (Madrid)
Online event via Zoom (registration) and live streaming on the DerechoyJusticia channel
Activity organized within the framework of the research projects:
"Ecoprudencia: Review of the Anthropocentric Foundations of Contemporary Legal Theory in the Face of the Ecological Transition", ref. TED2021-132334B-I00, funded by MICIU/AEI /10.13039/501100011033 and the European Union NextGenerationEU/ PRTR.
"Teorías de la Justicia y Derecho global de los derechos humanos [JUSGLOBAL]", funded by the Spanish State Research Agency (PID2019-107172RB-I00 / AEI / 10.13039/501100011033).
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About the SPA Seminar
The Permanent Seminar Jesús G. Amuchastegui—which replaced the previous name Permanent Seminar Law and Justice (SPDJ) as a small act of recognition for the mentioned member of the group who passed away in 2008—aims to be an active space for the evaluation, promotion, and dissemination of research in the field of Philosophy of Law and Political Philosophy in Spain, fostering debate with internationally recognized academics about their ongoing research and latest publications.
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