Rattling The Cage: Toward Legal Rights For AnimalsHachette+ORM, 08.07.2014 - 384 Seiten Rattling the Cage explains how the failure to recognize the basic legal rights of chimpanzees and bonobos in light of modern scientific findings creates a glaring contradiction in our law. In this witty, moving, persuasive, and impeccably researched argument, Wise demonstrates that the cognitive, emotional, and social capacities of these apes entitle them to freedom from imprisonment and abuse. |
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... four thousand years ago was Babylonian or Hebrew. And why, four hundred years ago, an early animal advocate stood up for barleyeating rats in a French courtroom. And, most surprisingly, why John Quincy Adams would thunder on the floor ...
... four thousand years ago was Babylonian or Hebrew. And why, four hundred years ago, an early animal advocate stood up for barleyeating rats in a French courtroom. And, most surprisingly, why John Quincy Adams would thunder on the floor ...
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... the Cage, Nonhuman Rights Project lawyers traveled from one end of New York State to the other, filing three common law habeas corpus suits on behalf of four imprisoned chimpanzees. Common law habeas corpus is xix Preface.
... the Cage, Nonhuman Rights Project lawyers traveled from one end of New York State to the other, filing three common law habeas corpus suits on behalf of four imprisoned chimpanzees. Common law habeas corpus is xix Preface.
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... four petitioners were the only chimpanzees the Nonhuman Rights Project could identify as living in New York State. Originally, the project's legal team was planning to file a single habeas corpus petition on behalf of Merlin and Reba ...
... four petitioners were the only chimpanzees the Nonhuman Rights Project could identify as living in New York State. Originally, the project's legal team was planning to file a single habeas corpus petition on behalf of Merlin and Reba ...
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... Four unless we persuaded judges that they were legal persons rather than things. We attacked that problem from two directions. Our first task was to persuade the judges that chimpanzees are autonomous. Half of Rattling the Cage sets out ...
... Four unless we persuaded judges that they were legal persons rather than things. We attacked that problem from two directions. Our first task was to persuade the judges that chimpanzees are autonomous. Half of Rattling the Cage sets out ...
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... Four was a beneficiary to give them the rights granted under the New York pet trust statute, provided the courts agreed that chimpanzees were domestic or pet animals. We asked the judges to recognize that the Chimpanzee Four ought to ...
... Four was a beneficiary to give them the rights granted under the New York pet trust statute, provided the courts agreed that chimpanzees were domestic or pet animals. We asked the judges to recognize that the Chimpanzee Four ought to ...
Inhalt
1 | |
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3 The Legal Thinghood of Nonhuman Animals | 23 |
4 Border Crossings | 35 |
5 What Are Legal Rights? | 49 |
6 Liberty and Equality | 63 |
7 The Common Law | 89 |
8 Consciousness Taxonomy and Minds | 119 |
9 Seasons of the Mind | 163 |
10 Chimpanzee and Bonobo Minds | 179 |
11 Bending Toward Justice | 239 |
Other Cages Other Peaks | 267 |
Notes | 271 |
About the Author | 339 |
Index | 341 |
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