IEET Appoints Steven M. Wise as Fellow

Jul 12, 2012

IEET is very pleased to announce that Steven M. Wise has accepted an appointment as Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. 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 Rights Project intends to file its first suits in 2013. 

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Steven M. Wise 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.