Reimagining the law of the forest 

Dr Helen Dancer invites you to imagine how the perspective of young people and more-than-human future generations could transform law and help protect trees, woods and forests. 

Dr Helen Dancer invites you to imagine how the perspective of young people and more-than-human future generations could transform law and help protect trees, woods and forests. 

Helen is a legal anthropologist, Earth lawyer and co-editor of UK Earth Law Judgments: Reimagining Law for People and Planet. Her fieldwork in the UK, Tanzania and Ecuador has been dedicated to understanding peoples’ ecological concerns, ways of knowing and struggles for justice. She is interested in how these insights could help bring about positive change in law and human-forest relationships for the future.