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María Valeria Berros is a professor and researcher at the National University of the Littoral and the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research in Santa Fe City, Argentina. She completed her doctoral degree in law with a focus on the sciology of law at the National University of the Littoral. Her work deals with the intersection between environmental law, sociology of risk, and social sciences studies, and she has participated in research projects at Sorbonne University, the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris, Limoges University, and Nantes University. Her current research focuses on environmental law, rights of nature, and social movements in Latin America. She analyzes the processes by which non-anthropocentric perspectives are incorporated into legal structures in different countries in Latin America.
RCC Research Project: River Rights: Tracing the Ebb and Flow of Judicial Currents across Continents and Countries
2015: RCC Research Project: Rights of Nature in Latin America: Ethics and Juridical Field in Dialogue
Film Interview with María Valeria Berros
Lunchtime Colloquium Video - The Rights of Nature in Latin America: Ethics and Law in Dialogue
Selected Publications:
- "Challenges for Implementing Rights of Nature: The Cases of Ecuador and Bolivia as the First Experiences of an Expanding Movement." Latin American Perspectives 48 (April 2021): 192–205.
- "Rights of Nature in the Anthropocene: Towards the Democratization of Environmental Law?" In Charting Environmental Law Futures in the Anthropocene, edited by Michelle Lim, 21–31. Singapur: Springer, 2019.
- with María Carman. "Ser o no ser un simio con derechos." Revista Direito GV 14, no. 3 (Autum 2018):1139–1172.
- with Anna Leah Tabios Hillebrecht, eds. "Can Nature Have Rights? Legal and Political Insights." RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2017, no. 6.
- with Victoria Haidar and Marianela Galanzino. "La mirada jurídica sobre los animales: un análisis de su estatuto en el derecho privado argentino." Revista de Derecho de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, no. 48 (2017): 79–101.
- with Rafael Colombo. "Miradas emergentes sobre el estatuto jurídico de los ríos, cuencas y glaciares." Rivista quadrimestrale di diritto dell’ambiente, no. 1 (2017): 31–72.