Juridical protection of the rights of nature is steadily emerging in several legal systems and in public discourse. Building on a recent publication in Transnational Environmental Law in which we interrogated Ecuador’s constitutional experiment with the rights of nature, we critically reflect in this contribution on Bolivia’s legal regime providing for the rights of Mother Earth. We do so, first, by sketching the juridical-political context within which these statutes were drafted and adopted, and then by analyzing the relevant constitutional provisions that provide the basis for the laws of Mother Earth. The third part forms the bulk of the discussion and details the background and the most relevant provisions of Bolivian statutes with a view to enabling a deeper critique in Part 4, in which we critically evaluate both the symbolic and the theoretical significance of the statutes as well as concerns related to their practical implementation. Insofar as the rights of nature paradigm has now become a truly global debate and a consideration in transnational comparative legal borrowing practices, our analysis aims to reveal the Bolivian experience, which could be instructive for civil society groups, academics, politicians and legislatures in a transnational setting.

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与自然和谐相处？对玻利维亚地球母亲权利的批判性评价

自然权利的司法保护在一些法律体系和公共话语中不断出现。以最近发表的一篇文章为基础跨国环境法在我们审问厄瓜多尔关于自然权利的宪法实验时，我们在这篇文章中批判性地反映了玻利维亚为地球母亲提供权利的法律制度。为此，我们首先勾勒出起草和通过这些法规的司法-政治背景，然后分析为地球母亲的法律提供基础的相关宪法规定。第三部分构成了讨论的主体，详细介绍了玻利维亚法规的背景和最相关的规定，以期在第 4 部分中进行更深入的批评，其中我们批判性地评估了法规的象征意义和理论意义作为与其实际实施有关的问题。