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83 Ohio St. L.J. Online 1 (2022)

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OHIO STATE LAW  JOURNAL  ONLINE


  Towards a Loraxian Praxis: Lessons from Legal
           History, Lake Erie, and The Lorax

                        BROOKE   ZENTMEYER*

                        TABLE  OF CONTENTS

I.  INTRODUCTION...............................................................................1
II. BACKSTORY ON RIGHTS OF NATURE THEORY..................................4
     A. The  Standing Requirement.......................................................4
     B. Rights of Nature Theory in Scholarship ...................................5
     C. Reactions to Rights of Nature Theory.................................. 6
III. RIGHTS  OF NATURE  RE-IMAGINED.................................................8
     A . Individual R ights .................................................................. 8
     B. Towards  Collective Rights .....................................................10
     C.  I am the river, and the river is me......................................10
IV.  MAKING   KIN: A LORAXIAN   PRAXIS.............................................11
     A. Make  Like The Lorax.............................................................12
     B. Making  Kin to Change  the Story ............................................13
     C. A Loraxian  Look at LEBOR  ...................................................14
         1. A Loraxian Praxis for Policymakers .................................15
         2. A Loraxian Praxis for Litigators .......................................15
         3. A Loraxian Praxis for Courts............................................15
         4. A Loraxian Praxis for the Community ...............................16
V . U N LESS .......................................................................................16


                          I. INTRODUCTION

    You're glumping the pond where the Humming-Fish hummed!
    No more can they hum, for their gills are all gummed.
    So I'm sending them off. Oh, their future is dreary.
    They'll walk on their fins and get woefully weary
    in search of some water that isn't so smeary.
    I hear things are just as bad up in Lake Erie.
    -The Lorax, 19711


    * Chief Articles Editor, Ohio State Law Journal; Juris Doctor Candidate, Class of
2022, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. I would like to thank my literature,
science, and law professors and teachers, past and present, for introducing me to the ideas
and scholarship that helped inspire this Note. Thank you to Hannah Wirt for her insightful
comments on earlier drafts of this piece and encouragement to find my authentic voice as a
writer. Thank you to the OSLJ Online staff for their excellent editing work and feedback,


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