That leads to the topic of legal personhood, defined by the late Steven Wise, founder of the Nonhuman Rights Project, as the capacity to have any rights at all. In the United States, rights are ...

The Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP), an advocacy organization that seeks legal rights for intelligent animals, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of five elephants in 2023 to end ...

In recent years, there have been some truly groundbreaking cases. For instance, the Nonhuman Rights Project in the United States has sought to free chimpanzees and elephants from captivity by ...

(The NonHuman Rights Project first tried this same tack with chimps.) Harvard history professor Jill Lepore, writing in The Atlantic, is all for it. Why, not only do elephants deserve rights ...

As part of an ongoing legal case brought against the institution by the activist group Nonhuman Rights Project, in April Jaffe ordered Stony Brook University to provide justification for its custody ...