Many people, including animal advocates and others who want to grant legal rights (including personhood) to nonhuman animals, are often criticized for their views because others fear it will diminish ...

Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, appointed in the Philosophy Department and the Law School of the University of Chicago. She is the author of Justice for ...

Philosopher examines when it is—and isn’t—okay to hurt animals if it means helping other animals in need A simple, moral principle offers inspiration and motivation to philosopher, ethicist and animal ...

It is becoming increasingly difficult to deny the ethical and practical implications of animal welfare. While animals’ sentience raises profound questions about their rights, as philosopher Martha ...

We talk about human rights and animal rights - what about the rights of nature itself? The right to not be polluted, even the right to personhood. Many countries and towns have guaranteed rights to ...

“To give animals recognition as persons under constitutional law would be the goal,” says the esteemed author of a new book on animal justice. By David Marchese Over the course of her long career, the ...

Sign up for the On Point newsletter here. For years, legal activists fought to free their client ... who was ... an elephant. They argued that Happy the Elephant is ...

FILE - Jane Goodall kisses Tess, a female chimpanzee, at the Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary near Nanyuki, north of Nairobi, on Dec. 6, 1997. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju, File) Buy Photo The Gazette ...

The development of national and international standards to promote economic justice and the creation of new policies, business practices and societal mores to accomplish this goal are the focus of the ...

There are small political overlaps between conservative philosophy and the animal rights agenda, but animal rights is not a conservative movement.

A new U.S. law has eliminated the requirement that drugs in development must undergo testing in animals before being given to participants in human trials. Animal rights advocates have long pushed for ...