Rights of nature approaches are instructive to the cause of animal rights, intellectually and practically. They do not offer a model to be copied wholesale, but instead call for careful study of the parallels and points of disconnection, of the commonalities and the conflicts, with the potential for significant results.
The keyword filters, which included PETA, PETALatino, animal (s), cruel, cruelty, and hashtags #stopanimaltesting, #stoptesting, and #stoptestingonanimals, automatically hid many comments critical of NIH from public view. 19 In response, PETA and two animal rights activists sued to challenge NIH’s use of keyword filters, arguing that the ...
If animal rights efforts are to gain momentum in law, they may need help from activists who are willing to test the boundaries of the law, and even risk being deemed outside the law. Such projects are important not only to test the bounds of existing positive law, but also to elevate the status of the animal rights law agenda more generally.
Rights of Nature, Rights of Animals Vol. 134 No. 5 March 2021 The fields of animal law and environmental law have an uneasy relationship. At a basic level, they are intertwined by the fundamental observation that...
RIGHTS OF NATURE, RIGHTS OF ANIMALS Kristen Stilt - Harvard Law Review
ANIMAL RIGHTS — UTILIZATION OF RACIAL PRECEDENT — NEW YORK COURT OF APPEALS REJECTS EXTENDING WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS TO ELEPHANT. — Nonhuman Rights Project, Inc.,
While California’s animal rights activists may be the immediate winners in Ross, the Court’s fractured opinion on the dormant commerce clause will — in the long run — likely benefit states with large economies and political ambitions for government-imposed economic regulation.
