Earth Law Center
Executive Director
Durango, CO, USA
Grant Wilson, Esq., is the Executive Director of Earth Law Center. For the last decade, he has defended the rights and interests of Nature all over the world, including by co-drafting legal instruments recognizing the Rights of Nature. He is a co-lead editor of the seminal Earth Law textbook, Earth Law: Emerging Ecocentric Law—A Guide for Practitioners (Aspen Series, 2021). He is also a member of the World Commission on Environmental Law and the UN Harmony with Nature Initiative. Grant earned a J.D. with a Certificate in Environmental and Natural Resources Law from Lewis & Clark Law School.
Offer
My offer is to use my expertise as a lawyer for the Earth--with expertise in the rights of nature, legal guardianship of nature, and other innovations--in order to elevate the movements of other participants. Specifically, I love dreaming up new legal and policy frameworks that strengthen other ecological movements.
NEED
At Earth Law Center, we need more opportunities to work directly with governments, corporations, and other actors to put into place innovative, Earth-centered legal frameworks. Ideally for a consulting fee. Sometimes this requires a leap of faith, but we need proof of concept that innovative ecological laws and governance can work in practice.
Call-to-Action
My CTA is to help develop a network of governments (including national and sub-national), businesses, and other actors who will begin harmonize their laws and governance with Nature as leaders and innovators, showing other actors what is possible.
