Earth Jurisprudence and Latin American’s Rights of Nature

This conference session explores how South Korea draws on South American modelsparticularly Ecuador and Bolivia’s rights of nature frameworksto shape its own approach to Earth jurisprudence. Speakers reflect on efforts to incorporate nature’s rights into civil law, reclassify animals as sentient beings, and build environmental justice frameworks sustained by Daoist and Confucian teachings that emphsize harmony, balance, and respect between people and the natural world.