He holds a J.D. from Boston University Law School and has practiced animal protection law for 30 years throughout the United States and is admitted to the Massachusetts Bar. He is the author of four books: Rattling the Cage -- Toward Legal Rights for Animals (2000), Drawing the Line -- Science and the Case for Animal Rights (2003), Though the Heavens May Fall -- The Landmark Trial That Led to the End of Human Slavery (2005), and An American Trilogy -- Death, Slavery, and Dominion Along the Banks of the Cape Fear River (2009), and working on a fifth, which will be a memoir about the Nonhuman Rights Project.
The Personhood Beyond the Human conference was organized by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics at Yale University, Yale's Animal Ethics Group and Yale's Technology and Ethics Group.
image: http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/03/world/africa/lola-ya-bonobo-congo/
On December 7, 2013 Steve Wise spoke on "The Nonhuman Rights Project: The Struggle for Legal Personhood for Nonhuman Animals" at the Personhood Beyond the Human conference at Yale University.
He holds a J.D. from Boston University Law School and has practiced animal protection law for 30 years throughout the United States and is admitted to the Massachusetts Bar. He is the author of four books: Rattling the Cage -- Toward Legal Rights for Animals (2000), Drawing the Line -- Science and the Case for Animal Rights (2003), Though the Heavens May Fall -- The Landmark Trial That Led to the End of Human Slavery (2005), and An American Trilogy -- Death, Slavery, and Dominion Along the Banks of the Cape Fear River (2009), and working on a fifth, which will be a memoir about the Nonhuman Rights Project.
The Personhood Beyond the Human conference was organized by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics at Yale University, Yale's Animal Ethics Group and Yale's Technology and Ethics Group.
image: http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/03/world/africa/lola-ya-bonobo-congo/
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