Dr Joshua Gellers

Fellowship focus: Exploring posthuman law for Earth-space governance.

 

How to recognise and govern more-than-human entities – such as animals, nature and AI – across both terrestrial and orbital domains is a pressing challenge in contemporary legal thought. Dr Gellers’ Fellowship will bring together leading legal theorists and practitioners to test the portability of shared legal principles, including standing, guardianship, precaution and stewardship, across different entities and spatial scales. It aims to develop a trans-entity, Earth–space framework for legal doctrine, procedure and policy, and to compare existing models of status, standing and remedies available to more-than-human actors. The work will be shaped through a multidisciplinary workshop led by the School of Law research centres in collaboration with the Institute for People-Centred AI, the Institute for Sustainability and the Surrey Space Institute.