Legal systems have inherited a deep ordering of the world, one in which human beings sit at the center as the principal subjects of justice. The larger, more-than-human world becomes something available for use and management. This assumption is embedded in legal categories and procedures, shaping what systems can recognise, and whose suffering becomes a question of justice. The Courts of the Living competition matters because the next generation of lawyers will inherit these difficult ecological questions, and will need to build new legal imagination alongside other key stakeholdes.