María Teresa Vicente Giménez is professor and researcher in Philosophy of Law and director of the Chair of Human Rights and Rights of Nature. Her research interests are ecological justice and the rights of nature, legal feminism, justice and social rights as well as the new paradigms of the international criminal justice. She has been researching the legislation around the River Atrato in Colombia and the Whanganui River in New Zealand, and initiated the Popular Legislative Initiative to grant rights to the Mar Menor. She is an organiser of the Earth Assembly of April 2024 in New York.