Mari Margil is the Associate Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF). She leads CELDF’s International Center for the Rights of Nature.
CELDF has assisted the first communities in the United States to secure the rights of nature in law, and is representing the first ecosystems to defend those rights. Margil assisted Ecuador’s Constituent Assembly to draft rights of nature constitutional provisions. In 2008, Ecuador became the first country to recognize these rights. She is now working in Nepal, India, Australia, and other countries – as well as with tribal nations – to advance rights of nature frameworks. Margil received her Master’s degree in Public Policy and Urban Planning from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
She is a co-author of The Bottom Line or Public Health, 2010, Oxford University Press, and Exploring Wild Law: The Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence, 2011, Wakefield Press.
