Frankfurter Debatten III with Frank Adloff and Tine Stein

8 November 2022

The DFG Centre for Advanced Studies "Futures of Sustainability" would like to draw your attention to the following event:

Gibt es Rechte der Natur?
Frankfurter Debatten III

Romanfabrik, Frankfurt a.M., 9 November, 2022

In-Person event and Livestream

All informations to the event are here.

In the environmental protection and ecology movement, voices are being raised that want to grant rights to the nature. At first, it sounds astonishing to imagine nature as a legal subject. But this has recently been demonstrated in Spain: The House of Represntatives and the Senate in Madrid have given the Mar Menor its own legal personality and enforceable rights by a large majority. The Mar Menor, a lagoon near Murcia, can now sue for its survival rights in court, represented by people. But is such a step also legally possible or even reasonable in our country?

Frank Adloff teaches sociology at the University of Hamburg and conducts research on the possibilities of regulating the economy and society. Tine Stein teaches political theory and the history of ideas at the University of Göttingen and researches the normative foundations of our constitutional state. Moderated by Claus Leggewie.

The series "Frankfurter Debatten" is sponsored by Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft, Kulturamt Frankfurt and Kulturfonds Frankfurt-RheinMain. In cooperation with hr2-kultur.