The third installment of the Global Program on More-Than-Human Rights will take place at New York University in London from July 20th through July 25th, 2025.

We are thrilled to announce the third installment of the Global Program on More-Than-Human Rights, which will take place in London (United Kingdom) from July 20th – July 25th, 2025 on the NYU London campus. 

More-than-human (MOTH) rights is a quickly evolving field, one that draws on perspectives, insights, and ideas from law, science, Indigenous knowledge, philosophy, and the arts to advance legal actions, strategies, and research to protect the diversity, richness, and well-being of the more-than-human world.

The Global Program on More-Than-Human Rights is an intensive five-day course designed to impart students with the essential elements of rights of nature / more-than-human rights law  and contemporary practices and thinking associated with the MOTH paradigm.With classes and immersive learning modules taught by world-renowned experts in rights of nature law and jurisprudence, multispecies justice philosophy, biology, Indigenous storytelling, writing, and more, students walk away with a firm understanding of the rights of nature / more-than-human rights field. In particular, the course modules are structured around the conceptual, theoretical, and practical foundations of the MOTH field.

Key Topics

  1. Who has a voice: who counts as a legal subject for the law? Who is included in the circle of moral concern?
  2. How do we listen: how do we listen to the voices of the more-than-human world? How do we enter into dialogue with these voices, and what implications does it have for how we understand law, governance, and participation?
  3. How do we act: how do we act on and with the voices of the more-than-human world?
  4. How do we think: what are the knowledges and disciplines that should participate in conversations and actions to protect the more-than-human world?

Learning Objectives

Students will conclude the Program with:

  1. A clearer understanding of how to move beyond anthropocentrism in legal actions and legal practice.
  2. A firm grasp of the state of the rights of nature / more-than-human rights field.
  3. An enhanced comprehension of the interdisciplinary and intercultural elements of the MOTH field.
  4. An improved ability to reimagine the actions and tools needed to protect the human and more-than-human world.

2025 Program Instructors

Confirmed instructors include: 

  • Merlin Sheldrake
  • Robert Macfarlane
  • César Rodríguez-Garavito
  • Elizabeth Macpherson
  • Patricia Gualinga
  • Jacqueline Gallant
  • Carlos Andrés Baquero-Díaz

Apply

To  apply  to the 2025 Global Program on More-Than-Human Rights, please submit your application to either the English or Spanish language version of the following form: 

Form (English)

Formulario (Español)

The deadline to submit your application is March 16th, 2025.

Tuition & Accommodations

Please see below for information on the cost of tuition for the Program and accommodations. 

Cost of Tuition: $775 USD

Cost of Tuition and Accommodation: $1775 USD