ABSTRACT
The success of twenty-five years of the Global Ecological Integrity Group (GEIG) is materially owed to Laura Westra and her extensive work on ecological integrity. GEIG has developed in three phases: clarification, dissemination and implementation. New concepts such as Earth systems law, Earth jurisprudence, Earth justice, Earth governance, Earth democracy or Earth as a legal entity consider Earth as a central reference point for the design of environmental law. GEIG and its members have made a considerable contribution to the development of environmental law. First its critique and second its transformation towards the ecologicalization of law in general. Ecological law and governance is no longer a distant dream, but an emergent characteristic of jurisprudence and law for our time. This time or epoch has been referred to as the Anthropocene. The notion of the Anthropocene is a timely wake-up call for realizing the fact that humanity has, to its own peril, overstepped Earth's ecological boundaries.
