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LUMEN – LAW OF NATURE AND HUMAN ECOSYSTEM APPROACH: MODELLING A TRANSCULTURAL ECO-LEGAL FRAMEWORK
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Video Pills
Video Pill #6: Vito Comar on the Rights of Nature, Indigenous Worldviews, and Ecological Resilience
The sixth LUMEN video pill explores the connection between Indigenous knowledge and ecosystem protection in Brazil
Video Pills
Video Pill #5: Interview with Liana Amin Lima da Silva on Consultation Protocols and the Rights of Nature in Brazil
The fifth LUMEN project insight focuses on Indigenous communities and the protection of ancestral territories.
Model Laws
Model law for the recognition of Nature's rights
Second model law of the LUMEN project to promote Nature as a rights-bearing entity by Silvia Bagni from the University of Bologna and Vito Comar from the Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados
News
Call for Contributions – II International Congress on Comparative and Constitutional Law “Cuba CON-PARA 2026”
Professors, researchers, students, and legal and political science professionals worldwide are invited to participate in Havana, February 3–6, 2026 - deadline Nov. 30, 2025
Events
15 OCT
- 19 NOV 2025
Decolonising Plant Knowledge: Thinking around ‘Rau’
A series of seminars at Cambridge explores botanical knowledge and Indigenous perspectives, available online – opening 15 October 2025
30 OCT
- 30 NOV 2025
Call for Contributions – II International Congress on Comparative and Constitutional Law “Cuba CON-PARA 2026”
Professors, researchers, students, and legal and political science professionals worldwide are invited to participate in Havana, February 3–6, 2026 - deadline Nov. 30, 2025
NextGenerationEU
PRIN 2022 PNRR “LUMEN - Law of nature and human ecosystem approach: modelling a transcultural eco-legal framework”, P.I. prof.ssa S. Bagni, Università degli Studi di Bologna, finanziato dall'Unione Europea – NextGenerationEU a valere sul Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR) – Missione 4 Istruzione e ricerca – Componente 2 Dalla ricerca all’impresa – Investimento 1.1, Avviso PRIN 2022 PNRR DD n. 1409 del 14 settembre 2022, codice proposta P20222H49L – CUP J53D23018680001.