EcoLAWgy is a transdisciplinary research group intersecting Western sciences, Indigenous knowledge and environmental justice.

The EcoLAWgy center was established by Dr Christine Frison within the Faculty of Law, Political Science, and Criminology at the University of Liège in 2024. Its mission is to fundamentally rethink environmental law. Rather than merely regulating human activities to mitigate harm to nature, EcoLAWgy seeks to build a truly ecological legal framework to support the living in a generative manner.

This new legal paradigm places the protection of ecological balance at the heart of its approach. It incorporates scientific, ethical, and Indigenous knowledge into the development of legal norms and challenges the anthropocentric vision of law. The center draws inspiration from movements such as biocentrism, the rights of future generations, and the rights of nature, as illustrated with a generative approach by the legal recognition of natural entities like rivers or forests, but also from movements contesting power and oppression (decolonial, feminist, anti-capitalist, etc.).

Through its interdisciplinary and innovative approach, EcoLAWgy aims to actively contribute to the transformation of law in response to today’s ecological challenges.

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