[Imc-newsroom] Fwd: Drawing the Line: Which nonhuman animals are entitled to legal rights?

[Dan Chambers]

Hey everyone,

Can anyone cover this? Steven Wise is a good speaker.

Dan C.


>From: ISEN/Laura Huth <isen at isenonline.org>
>To: isen at isenonline.org
>Subject: Drawing the Line: Which nonhuman animals are entitled to legal 
>rights?
>Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 18:21:34 -0500
>
>Drawing the Line:
>     Which nonhuman animals are entitled to legal rights?
>Steven Wise, JD
>Tuesday, April 29
>2 presentations: Noon, Law Building Auditorium and 7pm, University YMCA
>
>Driven by recent advances in primatology suggesting that some primates may 
>qualify as "persons" under common law, animal law is a rapidly growing 
>field attracting substantial interest. Currently, however, UIUC doesn't 
>offer any courses in the subject, making the presentations from Steven 
>Wise, an authority in the field, a great opportunity for the UIUC 
>community.
>
>Steven Wise, JD, "the country's best-known animal lawyer" (USA Today), 
>teaches Animals Rights Law at the Harvard, Vermont, and John Marshall Law 
>Schools and has worked with the world's most prominent
>primatologists. He's co-founder with Dr. Jane Goodall of the Center for the 
>Expansion of Fundamental Rights, which seeks to extend basic legal 
>protections to some animals, beginning with chimpanzees and bonobos.


"When I fed the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why they are 
poor, they called me a communist."

--Brazilian Archbishop Dom Helder Camara

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