César Rodríguez-Garavito is an Earth rights scholar, field lawyer, and the founding director of the More-Than-Human Life (MOTH) Project at New York University School of Law.
He is a Professor of Clinical Law and Director of the Earth Rights Research & Action (TERRA) Clinic at NYU Law. César has pioneered ideas and legal actions worldwide on issues such as climate justice, Indigenous rights, and what he has termed “more-than-human rights” (rights of nature).
His ongoing MOTH initiatives include a partnership with Project CETI on the legal implications of AI-assisted translation of sperm whale communications, a legal bid to recognize a forest as a co-author of a song (with musician Cosmo Sheldrake, writer Robert Macfarlane, and mycologist Giuliana Furci), and a collaboration with the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks to use eDNA data in legal actions to protect mycorrhizal fungi around the world.
His most recent book is More Than Human Rights: An Ecology of Law, Thought and Narrative for Earthly Flourishing.
