Sentences with phrase «nonhuman rights»

In this episode of the legal - affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we talk with pioneering animal rights lawyer Steven M. Wise, president of the Nonhuman Rights Project, author of four books about animal rights, and lecturer at several law schools.

Animal - rights lawyer Steve Wise Sometime in the next couple of months, in a yet - to - be disclosed courthouse somewhere in the United States, the Nonhuman Rights Project is planning to file a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of a chimpanzee.

Sometime in the next couple of months, in a yet - to - be disclosed courthouse somewhere in the United States, the Nonhuman Rights Project is planning to file a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of a chimpanzee.

On this edition of Lawyer2Lawyer, hosts Bob Ambrogi and J. Craig Williams will talk with Wise about the case to grant a chimp the right to bodily liberty and The Nonhuman Rights Project's long - term plans for animal rights

The cases were filed on the chimpanzees» behalf by the Nonhuman Rights Project of Coral Springs, Florida.

In the fall, we hosted guest speaker Steven Wise, who spoke about the Nonhuman Rights Project's initiative to expand certain legal rights to animals.

«Michael is the former president and one of the founders of Best Friends Animal Society, and continues to help us at the Nonhuman Rights Project,» Natalie says, adding, «Of course, I would be nowhere in this field today without the constant guidance of Steven Wise.»

With help from Professor Randall Abate and their co-sponsor, the Federalist Society, they presented The Legal Battle on Personhood Debate, featuring Steve Wise, president of the Nonhuman Rights Project, and Bob Kohn, fellow at the Center for Great Ideas.

I also volunteered with the Nonhuman Rights Project both during law school and after I graduated.

This week, a New York appellate court rejected a lawsuit by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) to free a chimp named Tommy from captivity.

Tommy the chimpanzee lives in a cage on private property in New York, according to the Nonhuman Rights Project.

While there, the Nonhuman Rights Project — an animal rights group based in Coral Springs, Florida — filed a lawsuit to have Hercules and Leo declared legal persons and moved to a sanctuary in Florida.

«I'm glad to hear Hercules and Leo are getting out of New Iberia,» says Steven Wise, founder and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project.

«This is a big step forward to getting what we are ultimately seeking: the right to bodily liberty for chimpanzees and other cognitively complex animals,» says Natalie Prosin, the executive director of the animal rights organization, the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), that filed the case.

«We're shifting from a legal to a political campaign,» says Steven Wise, the president of the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) in Coral Springs, Florida.

The Nonhuman Rights Project has responded to the amendment, stating, «This case is one of a trio of cases that the Nonhuman Rights Project has brought in an attempt to free chimpanzees imprisoned within the State of New York through an «Article 70 - Habeas Corpus» proceeding.

Asserting that the primates» relatively high intelligence entitles them to legal rights, the Nonhuman Rights Project went to court in three places in New York State in 2013.

Not exact matches

In terms of this principle, I expect, one might speak of the prima facie «rights» of nonhuman animals, at least of those that are conscious, and in a more extended sense of the term, the prima facie «right» of the natural order to its own diversity

«Rights of the Nonhuman World.»

«The Rights of Nonhuman Beings.

In recent years, animal rights groups have pressured the few airlines that still transported nonhuman primates for research into ending their service.

Ethologist Frans de Waal has offered several observations of apparent empathy among nonhuman primates in his 1996 book Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals, but richer insights come from a series of studies published about 40 years ago, when standards for animal welfare were minimal.

It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.

Greater legal rights for nonhuman species.

The Association of Veterinarians for Animal Rights actively works toward the acquisition of rights for all nonhuman animals by educating the public and the veterinary profession about a variety of issues concerning nonhuman animaRights actively works toward the acquisition of rights for all nonhuman animals by educating the public and the veterinary profession about a variety of issues concerning nonhuman animarights for all nonhuman animals by educating the public and the veterinary profession about a variety of issues concerning nonhuman animal use.

But I've also come to see substantial merit in the emerging concept of nonhuman personhood, having worked with Pace University students and faculty members in trying to pass legislation in New York banning circuses from using elephants, and absorbing much about animals» feelings and rights from writers and scientists like Carl Safina.

For a brief explanation of this perspective, see my «Primer on Nonhuman Personhood, Cetacean Rights and «Flourishing.

After I wrote over the weekend about new research on the killing method employed in the dolphin roundups undertaken in Taiji, Japan, a fascinating comment on the rights of «nonhuman persons» was posted by Thomas I. White, who is the Conrad N. Hilton Professor in Business Ethics at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

Project lawyer Steven Wise told Reuters that Fahey's opinion «could be a historical turning point in the struggle to obtain legal rights for nonhuman animals in the United States.»