Earth jurisprudence in South America: Trends and developments

Presented in this article is an analysis of the evolution and contributions developed and integrated into the corpus of Earth Jurisprudence from practice in seven South American countries, where 135 records were found between 2005 and 2023. The authors emphasize the need to elevate the rights of nature and animals to constitutional status, claiming Indigenous and ancestral cosmogonies regionally since it includes a legal stability that would facilitate the work of judicial and legislative actors and decision-makers for developing public policies. This would contribute to the practical development of the new Latin American constitutionalism and the Earth Jurisprudence.