Author Archives: Natalie Prosin

By Natalie Prosin On February 6, 2012, a Federal Court in San Diego held a hearing on a Motion to Dismiss filed by SeaWorld in a case where PETA claimed that SeaWorld was enslaving orcas in violation of the Thirteenth … Continue reading →

Steven Wise’s presentation, “Liberty and Justice for All – the Nonhuman Rights Project”– at the 2010 Lewis & Clark Animal Law Conference in Portland, Oregon, is now available for viewing here. The video runs about 90 minutes and is a … Continue reading →

Congratulations to our Volunteer of the Month for January 2012: Kevin Schneider. Kevin Schneider started working with the Nonhuman Rights Project in the summer of 2010 as a volunteer social-media contributor and web editor. In the summer of 2011, Kevin … Continue reading →

Staff Report In Miller-McCune’s magazine article, “Should Animals be Considered People?” Steven Wise explains the rationale underlying the Nonhuman Rights Project. He describes how he came to take a different approach from other legal experts, as well as from the … Continue reading →

The Equality Working Group meets in New York

On December 8, 2011, The Portland Tribune published an op-ed by Steven M. Wise, President of the Nonhuman Rights Project.

On November 11, 2011, the Brooklyn Law School Student Animal Legal Defense Fund hosted a dinner and lecture with Professor Steven Wise, President of the Nonhuman Rights Project.

Congratulations to our Volunteer of the Month for December 2011: Elizabeth Stein.

Feld Entertainment, the owners of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, just agreed to pay a $270,000 fine to settle USDA allegations of mishandling the elephants and other exotic animals they enslave.

“The problem with animal rights claims in American courts is always standing,” Molly Peterson writes in her blog. “Courts are for laws; laws are for people. Animals might have ethical rights; those rights have little-to-nothing to do with human laws.”

Lewis & Clark Law School begins LL.M in Animal Law Lewis & Clark Law School recently announced the world’s first advanced degree in animal law. The Animal Law LL.M Program received approval from the American Bar Association. An LL.M is … Continue reading →

Hears federal preemption case that has ties to animal welfare National Meat Association v. Harris For the second time in three years the US Supreme Court has taken up an animal welfare issue. The National Meat Association, an industry trade … Continue reading →

Steve Wise, Judge Richard Posner, and Professor Richard Epstein debate animal rights particularly concerning Steve Wise’s book, “Rattling the Cage: Towards Legal Rights for Animals.”  The debate was filmed April 4, 2000 for C-SPAN.  

In this interview on Urban Update, a New England program on Boston’s NBC affiliate, Steve discusses Lord Mansfield’s decision in the 1772 Somerset v. Stuart case that abolished slavery in Great Britain.

Steven Wise discusses his book “Though the Heavens May Fall” with Barry Nolan on the show “Nitebeat”. The book describes how a 1772 court case was responsible for making slavery illegal in Great Britain.

Steve is interviewed on CNBC’s “Hotwire” on August 19, 1999, about his Animal Law course at Harvard Law.

In this video clip from September 19, 1999 which aired on MSNBC, Steve Wise, President of the Nonhuman Rights Project, is interviewed about the burgeoning field of animal rights law and how he is leading the charge to change the … Continue reading →

In this clip from Fox News “Face Off,” which aired August 24, 1999, Steve discusses why animals should have legal rights to liberty. Steve explains why he is seeking to establish bodily liberty and bodily integrity to certain nonhuman animals.

The Nonhuman Rights Project has just launched our Youtube channel.  Check it out at: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheNhRP and click “subscribe” to be notified every time we post a new video!

Steve Wise was invited to speak at the Arcus Foundation’s conference in New York City this past month.  Michael Mountain at Zoe Nature discusses Steve’s talk. http://www.zoenature.org/2011/08/can-a-non-human-be-a-%E2%80%98person%E2%80%99/

Steven Wise explains what a “legal person” means and how it relates to animals and the Nonhuman Rights Project. http://www.zoenature.org/2010/10/making-the-case/

Steven Wise discusses the Nonhuman Rights Project with Zoe Nature. http://www.zoenature.org/2010/10/dolphins-legal-rights/

Steve Wise is interviewed by Voiceless: The Animal Protection Institute. http://www.voiceless.org.au/Law/Special_Guest_Lawyers/April_2005_Steven_M._Wise.html