As part of Gender Awareness Week’s lunch lecture series, Mana Elise Hera Tugend, Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea, will give a 20-minute presentation on her research, followed by a 10-minute discussion.
In times of accelerating socio-ecological crises, law is often called upon to regulate, manage, and control environmental harm. Yet the dominant legal imagination remains grounded in dualistic assumptions that separate humans from nature and prioritize mastery over interdependence. This presentation explores what it might mean to rethink law as a relational practice. Drawing on feminist ethics of care, it examines how concepts such as care, responsibility, and interconnection challenge the anthropocentric and hierarchical foundations of environmental law. By foregrounding the gendered histories of care and their marginalization within legal thought, the presentation reflects on how relational approaches to law may contribute to alternative human–more-than-human futures.
The event is part of Gender Awareness Week. The full program can be found here