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Jedediah Britton-Purdy is William S. Beinecke Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. His most recent book is This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth.
If we are to emerge from this era of crisis, we need legal thinking that operates on fundamentally different presumptions.
It is impossible to divorce nature from human influence. Can that influence be democratic?
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