Should Trees Have Standing?: Law, Morality, and the Environment

Originally published in 1972, Should Trees Have Standing? Was a rallying point for the then burgeoning environmental movement, launching a worldwide debate on the basic nature of legal rights that reached the U.S. Supreme Court. Now, more than 35 years after this remarkably influential book was published, Christopher D. Stone updates his original thesis and explores the impact his ideas have had on the courts, the academy, and society as a whole.

This enduring work continues to serve as the ...