Exploring Wild Law -- Title page -- Imprint page -- Dedication -- Epigraphs -- Contents page 1 -- Contents page 2 -- Preface -- PART ONE: What is Earth Jurisprudence? -- Dedication to Thomas Berry by Jules Cashford -- Ten Principles of Jurisprudence -- Notes -- A History of Wild Law by Cormac Cullinan -- Earth Jurisprudence -- Principles of Earth Jurisprudence -- Thomas Berry -- The Earth Justice Network -- Going public -- Connecting with traditional wisdom in Africa -- The United Kingdom -- Earth democracy in India -- EJ in the USA -- The Center for Earth Jurisprudence -- The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund -- The rights of Pachamama -- Ecuador -- The Bolivian initiative -- The path ahead -- Notes -- Reflections on an Inter-cultural Journey into Earth Jurisprudence by Liz Hosken -- The Journey Unfolds -- Taking Stock -- The Flowering of Things -- A Global Alliance is Formed -- A Turning Point -- A Legacy to be Upheld -- Notes -- One In All: Principles and Characteristics of Earth Jurisprudence by Ian Mason -- Philosophic Foundations -- A Materialist View -- Mutual Enhancement -- Learning by Intimacy -- Intimate Law -- Wild Law -- Earth-Centred Law -- Commons -- Restorative justice -- Community Ecological Governance -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Key Principles to Transform Law for the Health of the Planet by Judith E. Koons -- A New Vision of Jurisprudence -- The Principle of Subjectivity: Intrinsic Value of Earth -- The Principle of Communion: Relational Responsibility -- The Principle of Differentiation: Earth Democracy -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- The Great Jurisprudence by Peter Burdon -- Anthropocentrism and the Law -- Legal Theory -- Nature as Human Property -- Legal Rights -- Earth Jurisprudence -- Legal Categories -- The Great Law -- Human Law -- The Function of the Great Law -- Legal Quality.

Corruption & Civil Disobedience -- Conclusion: Re-thinking Law for the Ecological Age -- Notes -- PART TWO: Inspiration for Earth Jurisprudence -- Section 1: Science and Nature -- Gaia and Earth Jurisprudence by Stephan Harding -- Bibliography -- Eco-Centric Paradigm by Peter Burdon -- Communion -- Differentiation -- Autopoiesis -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Place as Inspiration by Joel Catchlove -- Activity - Mapping Home -- Activity - Touch Hunt -- Activity - Blindfold Walk -- Activity - Seeing Ecology -- Notes -- Section 2: Theology and Philosophy -- Beyond Dominion and Stewardship by Gloria L . Schaab -- The Critique -- Dominion -- Imago Dei -- This World or the Next? -- Redeeming the Tradition -- Relational Lens -- Sacramental Lens -- Incarnational Lens -- Practical Ramifications -- Notes -- 'And finally … humans!' by Jason John -- The first story: Genesis 1 (dominion, fear and dread) -- The second story: Genesis 2 (to serve and protect) -- The third story: life-centred Christianity -- Notes -- Cosmology and Earth Jurisprudence by Herman F. Greene -- Earth Jurisprudence: The Great Law, Rights of Nature, and Natural Law -- Cosmology as the Authoritative Ground of Earth Jurisprudence -- Modernity and the End of Cosmology -- Cosmology and the Universe -- Phenomenology -- Post-Modern Science -- Ontology -- Process Metaphysics -- Indigenous Traditions -- The Universe Story -- Ecology as a Functional Cosmology -- Does Existence Determine the Rights of Nature? -- Notes -- Extracting Norms From Nature: A Biogenic Approach to Ethics by Pamela Lyon -- The Biogenic Approach -- Making a Living is Intrinsically Normative -- Taking the next step -- Notes -- Elusive Lines and Environmental Rules by Lawrence E. Johnson -- Line Drawing: Precision, Determinability and Accuracy -- Note -- Section 3: Customary Law.

Anthropocentric and Ecocentric Versions of the Ethiopian Legal Regime by Melesse Damtie -- Anthropocentric Versions of Ethiopian Laws -- Influence by the Western Traditions -- Examples of Legal and other Instruments that Reflect Anthropocentric Views in Ethiopia -- Wildlife Development and Conservation Authority Establishment Proclamation No. 575/2008 -- The Ethiopian Water Sector Stragegy, 2001 -- Examples of Legal and other Instruments that Reflect Ecocentric Views in Ethiopia -- The FDRE Constitution -- The Environmental Policy of Ethiopia -- Examples of Traditional Cultures -- Oromo People -- Southern Region -- Amhara Region -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Earth Jurisprudence in the African Context by Ng'ang'a Thiong'o -- Reviving Customary Law in Africa -- What Space is There for Recognising Customary Law and Earth Jurisprudence? -- Some of the Challenges of Recognising Customary Law -- Community Dialogues and Working with the Elders -- An Effective Response to the Devastation of Kenya's Forests and Environment -- Africa - A Sleeping Giant? -- The Sources of Inspiration for Earth Jurisprudence -- Notes -- PART THREE: Earth Jurisprudence in Practice -- Section 1: Ecocentric Law -- Where the Wild Things Are: Finding the Wild in Law by Nicole Rogers -- Max's Journey and Wilderness Law -- Eco-Pragmatism and Wild Law -- Eco-Pragmatism at Work: Climate Change Litigation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Wild Law: Is There Any Evidence of Earth Jurisprudence in Existing Law? by Begonia Filgueira & Ian Mason -- Methodology -- Earth Jurisprudence and the law -- Justification for granting nature rights -- The indicators in theory and in practice -- Earth-centred governance in theory -- Earth-centred governance in practice -- Mutually enhancing relations in theory -- Mutually enhancing relations in practice -- Community ecological governance in theory.

Community ecological governance in practice -- Conclusion -- Practical suggestions -- Notes -- From Reductionist Environmental Law to Sustainability Law by Klaus Bos selmann -- The Flawed Design of Environmental Law and Policy -- Unravelling the Problem -- The Principle of Sustainability -- Ecological integrity as central reference -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Nature in Court: Conflict Resolution in the Ecozoic Age by Liz Rivers -- The Challenge -- The Answer -- The Old Paradigm: 'Empire' -- Our Current Litigation System -- The New Paradigm: 'Earth Community' -- The Growth of Mediation: A New Paradigm Process -- Jung and the Four Dimensions -- Environmental Constellations - A Case Study -- How they work -- Other Possible Processes -- For dialogue with the natural world -- Council of All Beings -- Shamanic Rituals -- For Dialogue Between Humans About Worldviews -- Applications of Systemic Family Therapy to Socially Divisive Issues -- Spiral Dynamics -- Rights-based thinking - is it part of the problem? -- Notes -- Section 2: The Rights of Nature -- Rights of the Earth: We Need a New Legal Framework Which Recognises the Rights of All Living Beings by Thomas Berry -- Acknowledgement -- If Nature Had Rights What Would We Need to Give Up? by Cormac Cullinan -- Acknowledgement -- Earth Day Revisited: Building a Body of Earth Law for the Next Forty Years by Linda Sheehan -- Earth Day Hits 40, Sits in Self-Reflection -- Archeological Dig Uncovers Long-Lost Assumptions: Inquiry Commences -- Science Evolves -- Ethics Evolves. Law Glances up -- Recipe for Earth Law: Fold in Ecosystems -- Clarify Relationships. Avoid Climate Microwave -- Letters from 2050 -- Notes -- Stories from the Environmental Frontier by Mari Margil -- The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund -- Blaine Township, Pennsylvania -- Town of Barnstead, New Hampshire -- Ecuador -- Conclusion.

Section 3: Ecological Conceptions of Property -- Owning the Earth by Nicole Graham -- Owning the Earth as a Right -- Owning the Earth as a Responsibility -- Ownership and Knowledge -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Private Rights in Nature: Two Paradigms by Eric T. Freyfogle -- The Setting -- Owning the Land: The Industrial View -- Owning the Land: An Ecological View -- New Ideas, New Rhetoric -- Notes -- How We Control the Environment and Others by Paul Babie -- Private Property: A Legal-Social Relationship -- Climate Change: A Physical-Spatial Relationship -- Weakness: 'Idea' and 'Sovereignty' -- Religion: Alternative Ideas -- Judaism -- Christianity -- Islam -- Religion is an Alternative Idea -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Earth Jurisprudence and the Ecological Case for Degrowth by Samuel Alexander -- Property, Wealth Maximisation, and the Growth Model of Progress -- A Brief History of Growth Scepticism -- Property beyond Growth -- Notes -- PART FOUR: International Law and Governance -- Towards a Garden of Eden by Polly Higgins -- The Crime of Ecocide -- Eco-Colonisation -- Responsibility is a Mantle Worn By All -- Conclusion -- Notes -- The Earth Charter, Covenants, and Earth Jurisprudence by J. Ronald Engel & Brendan Mackey -- The Defining Issues of Our Age -- The Faustian Pact -- The Earth Charter -- Keeping Promises Across the Generations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Governance for Integrity? A Distant but Necessary Goal by Laura Westra -- Introduction to Ecological Integrity -- Ecological Integrity and Science -- Ecofootprints, Colonisation and Mass Violence -- Genocide: The Question of Intent -- Colonialism and Structural Ecoviolence -- An Unsustainable Society? Ecology Integrity as a Counter Proposition -- Conclusion -- Notes -- EPILOGUE -- Island Civilisation: A Vision for Human Occupancy of Earth in the Fourth Millennium by Roderick Frazier Nash.

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