Nils Richterich is a sociologist based at the research training group “Fixing Future” (University of Frankfurt am Main), where he works on more-than-human sociology of inequality, environmental sociology, and Science and Technology Studies (STS). In his dissertation, he investigates the question of what is required to establish different forms of the rights of nature.
How can more-than-human representations be successful through the idea of a legal personhood? Moreover, how can related conflicts be understood? And to what extent are these developments changing the field of law? He examines these questions by mobilising the example of the Spanish saltwater lagoon Mar Menor and the social movements associated with it.