Steven Wise

Steven M. Wise is founder and director of the Nonhuman Rights Project.  The purpose of the Nonhuman Rights Project is to attain legal personhood for nonhuman animals through litigation. With the help of dozens of volunteers, the Nonhuman Rigfhts Project intends to file its first suits in 2013.  He has written four books, Rattling the Cage -Toward Legal Rights for Animals, Drawing the Line - Science and the Case for Animal Rights, Though the Heavens May Fall - The Landmark Trial That Led to the End of Human Slavery, and An American Trilogy - Death, Slavery & Dominion on the Banks of the Cape Fear River, and is working on a memoir. His numerous law review articles have been cited hundreds of times. He teaches “Animal Rights Jurisprudence” at Lewis and Clark, Vermont, St. Thomas, and the University of Miami Law Schools, and has taught “Animal Rights Law” at Harvard and John Marshall Law Schools. He has practiced animal protection law for 32 years.

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Articles

"Legal Personhood and the NonHuman Rights Project"   Lewis and Clark   Jul 12, 2012