As a follow-up to the GAI workshop ' Trans-species Listening and Rights of Nature: Legal Persons beyond the Human ' which was organized on October 5 th , 2018, a special issue was published in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment in Summer 2020. This issue was edited by GAI affiliates Jeffrey Nicolaisen and Ambika Aiyadurai and the GAI director, Prof. Prasenjit Duara.