Quantum Law: Rights of Nature & the next key milestone

A series of fortuitous ‘accidents’ led Alessandro Pelizzon to a legal movement he has subsequently helped become an exponentially growing force - not only as a profound transformation of legal norms, but as a radical reimagination of law itself. Akin to what quantum physics was to physics. And now he’s written a book on it, hoping it helps the next urgently needed steps.  Herman Greene said, ‘Along with [Christopher] Stone’s Do Trees Have Standing?, [Cormac] Cullinan’s Wild Law, and the Ecuadorian Constitution, we can now name Pelizzon’s Ecological Jurisprudence as a key milestone in the field.  Cullinan himself calls the book ‘a major contribution to the Great Work identified by Thomas Berry.’ For Alessandro, it’s a life’s work to date. A life journey we talk about here, along with how the book emerged from it, and the lengths he went to for the book to be made freely available. As a co-founder and Executive Committee Member of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN), co-founder of the GARN Academic Hub, and an expert member of the UN Harmony with Nature Program, Alessandro has been a leading voice in the push for ecological justice.  More listener shout outs feature at the end as usual. You can hear the last time Alessandro and I spoke on the pod, about the EU’s movement towards instituting the crime of ecocide, along with post-growth economies, for ep183.  And if you’re interested in hearing some of the story of the formal recognition of the Yarra River Birrarung Marr as an integrated living entity in Melbourne/Naarm, Katie Ross and I talk about it for the first 10 minutes of episode 302, on-location riverside. Subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review telling us what you thought of today's episode. If you’d like to go straight to a particular part of this episode, essentially viewing a table of contents, you can navigate via the chapter markers & transcript. Recorded 30 October and 6 November 2026. Title image taken during our conversation. You can also purchase a print version of Ecological Jurisprudence here. Thanks for listening. Music:  Andean Feeling, by Pangal & Gana (from Artlist). Regeneration, by Amelia Barden. Send us a voicemail Support the show Please share this episode or the trailer with a friend, follow the podcast, and subscribe if you can. The RegenNarration is independent and ad-free, with hundreds of episodes freely available, thanks to the generous support of listeners like you. If you're enjoying the podcast, I hope you'll consider becoming a paid subscriber, from as little as around $1 a week, to gain access to a great community, subscriber events and giveaways, and to help keep the show going, on Patreon or Substack (where you'll find some writing, photography and tunes too). You can also donate directly via the website (avoiding fees) or PayPal. I hope to see you at an event soon, even the shop. Thanks so much for your support!