Write an essay in which you discuss the choice of legal personhood for some natural entities and regions (rivers, mountains, old growth forests and eco-systems). Analyze and assess recent legal developments which have recognized nature as a legal person and removed it from the category of property. Your essay must include the following sections: 0 Explain the argument (theory) in favour of recognizing nature as a legal person. What makes it a good idea? What emerging crisis is animating the legal imagination (innovation) in this area? 0 Discuss how New Zealand law has recognized the Te Wegion and the Whanganui River as legal persons. What values is this recognition meant to promote? How has legal personhood been operationalized in these cases? 12 How is this analogous to the how the corporation functions as legal person?13 '- Analyze the extent to which the choice of nature as a legal person is a 'natural' t in the law of persons. What useful rights and benefits flow to nature as possessive individual (and have been built into examples in New Zealand)? Note: In this section try to address reactions that this is a crazy idea. '- Analyze the extent to which the choice of legal personhood for nature may indeed be a radical innovation at the level of system 'assumptions\" or operational characteristics. In particular, consider the extent to which it 1) unsettles some of the binaries in the conceptual framework of persons and property (e.g., subject-object; public-private; person-property; human-non-human persons)? and 2) unsettles (even We) some of the 'operators' in the conceptual framework of persons and property leg. the individual, the market, human society, European identity; economic growth, commodities and property as inanimate objects). Note: I do not want you to argue against nature as a legal person here. 14 Rather, I want you to consider the possible ramications of recognizing nature as a legal person. Finally sum up your essay by casting a vote: in favour of pursuing this line of legal change or opposed. State one main reason that tipped the balance for you and conclude your essay