The Rights of Nature concept not only breaks with the anthropocentrism of existing (environmental) law; it also recognizes that nature has private interests, in addition to being of public interest. That is, whereas in classic sustainability thinking, the use of certain resources is allowed as long as public interests are not systematically/systemically harmed, rights of nature facilitate the protection of nature before planetary boundaries are transgressed. This recognition of nature as having private interests enables the framing of disagreements around ‘nature’ as matters of corrective justice, which renders the application of private legal doctrines more easily conceivable and arguably even necessary.The contributions to this Symposium Collection showcase the viability of the intersection of private law and rights of nature. Firstly, it is necessary to research how existing private law will influence the effectiveness of rights of nature. Such an exercise is undertaken by Björn Hoops, who carefully assesses what rights for the German Black Forest would mean in terms of German constitutional property law. The mirror image of this approach is to explore what impact Rights of Nature will have on private law. Such an approach is taken by Alex Putzer and co-authors in their article on the transformation of land-ownership regimes after the introduction of Rights of Nature in Ecuador and Uganda. A third line of scholarship assesses the significance of Rights of Nature for private law theory: Visa Kurki proposes a new concept of legal personhood, prompting us to think through the meaning of statements like ‘a river is a legal person’.

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自然的私人权利

自然权利概念不仅打破了现有（环境）法的人类中心主义；它还承认，除了公共利益之外，大自然还有私人利益。也就是说，在经典的可持续发展思想中，只要公共利益没有受到系统性/系统性损害，就允许使用某些资源，而自然权利有助于在地球边界被侵犯之前保护自然。这种对自然具有私人利益的认识使得围绕“自然”的分歧成为矫正正义的问题，这使得私人法律学说的应用更容易想象，甚至可以说是必要的。对本次研讨会集的贡献展示了私法与自然权利的交集。首先，有必要研究现有的私法将如何影响自然权利的效力。Björn Hoops 进行了这项工作，他仔细评估了德国黑森林的权利在德国宪法财产法方面意味着什么。这种方法的镜像是探索自然权利对私法的影响。Alex Putzer 及其合著者在他们关于厄瓜多尔和乌干达引入自然权利后土地所有权制度转型的文章中采用了这种方法。第三条学术路线评估了自然权利对于私法理论的意义：Visa Kurki 提出了一个新的法人概念，促使我们思考“河流是法人”等陈述的含义。