The path of decolonization has always been difficult to walk, mazed as it is with contradictions and double binds, but the existential threat of climate change adds new urgency. This essay suggests that decolonial legal practice be organized around, not the struggle for new rights, but the struggle to imagine new legal subjects. Two types of legal-ontological work are described: rethinking the legal subjecthood of nonhuman entities, and rethinking the legal subjecthood of human collectivities. Although law schools have not yet recognized the urgency of this work, movements organized around “justice” are already leading the way.

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气候混乱中的非殖民化法律主体

非殖民化的道路向来艰难，曲折曲折，矛盾重重，但气候变化的生存威胁增加了新的紧迫性。本文建议非殖民主义法律实践的组织不是围绕新权利的斗争，而是围绕想象新法律主体的斗争。描述了两种类型的法律本体论工作：重新思考非人类实体的法律主体性，以及重新思考人类集体的法律主体性。尽管法学院尚未认识到这项工作的紧迫性，但围绕“正义”组织的运动已经在引领潮流。