Valentina Dotto

• Policy and Law
• Environmental Law
• Constitutional Law
• Political Science

The Doctrine of Public Trust

Valentina's research focuses on a regulatory tool called the Doctrine of Public Trust. Since much has been written on the narrow definition of the Doctrine of Public Trust, my research uses the rhetoric and the metaphor of the Doctrine to translate broad principles of duty of care and fiduciary responsibility into useful mechanisms to establish litigation strategies. This strategies are focused on forcing governments to take action in order to create an idea of governmental responsibility towards custody and guardianship of the earth’s resources for future generations.