Podcast appearances and mentions of Steven M Wise

REMEMBERING TWO LEADERS WHO LEFT US THIS YEAR Dr. John McDougall, MD Dr. John McDougall national recognition as a nutrition expert earned him a position in the Great Nutrition Debate 2000 presented by the USDA. He was a board-certified internist, author of 13 national best-selling books and co-founder of the McDougall Program who dedicated over 50 years of his life caring for people with diet and lifestyle medicine.             Steven M. Wise Steven M. Wise was President of the Nonhuman Rights Project, Inc. He held a J.D. from Boston University Law School and a B.S. in Chemistry from the College of William and Mary. He practiced animal protection law for 30 years throughout the United States and was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar. Steve taught “Animal Rights Jurisprudence” at the Vermont, Lewis and Clark, University of Miami, and St. Thomas Law Schools, and taught “Animal Rights Law” at the Harvard Law School and John Marshall Law School. He is the author of four books: * Rattling the Cage – Toward Legal Rights for Animals * Drawing the Line – Science and the Case for Animal Rights * Though the Heavens May Fall – The Landmark Trial That Led to the End of Human Slavery * An American Trilogy – Death, Slavery, and Dominion Along the Banks of the Cape Fear River He has authored numerous law review, encyclopedia, and popular articles. His work for the legal rights of nonhuman animals was highlighted on Dateline NBC and was the subject of the documentary, A Legal Person. The documentary Unlocking the Cage follows Wise in parts of his struggle for chimpanzees. Links mentioned in the podcast: UN Goal 2: Zero Hunger Food from Somewhere, Building food security and resilience through territorial markets

Annabel Abbs-Streets, SLEEPLESS, Unleashing the Subversive Power of the Night Self Annabel Abbs-Streets is a writer of highly researched, award-winning fiction as well as both narrative and practical non-fiction. Her non-fiction includes Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women, 52 Ways to Walk, and The Age Well Project. Abbs-Streets also wrote the novels The Joyce Girl, the story of James Joyce's daughter Lucia, and Miss Eliza's English Kitchen, an international bestseller optioned by CBS Studios. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She lives in London and Sussex with her family. Links mentioned in the program: Remembering Steve Wise. Steve Wise was Founder and President of the Nonhuman Rights Project, NhRP. The NhRP is the only civil rights organization in the United States dedicated solely to securing rights for nonhuman animals. He passed away on February 15th after a long illness. The NhRP posted about this sad loss. Here are three interviews with Steve Wise on IT'S ALL ABOUT FOOD. Steven M. Wise, An American Trilogy Steven M. Wise, Nonhuman Rights Project Steven M. Wise, Nonhuman Rights Project, Expanding Mission and Work Beyond the Courtroom

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: In memory of Steven M. Wise, published by Tyner on February 21, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. LINK: https://everloved.com/life-of/steven-wise/obituary/ Renowned animal rights pioneer Steven M. Wise passed away on February 15th after a long illness. He was 73 years old. An innovative scholar and groundbreaking expert on animal law, Wise founded and served as president of the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), the only nonprofit organization in the US dedicated solely to establishing legal rights for nonhuman animals. As the NhRP's lead attorney, he filed historic lawsuits demanding the right to liberty of captive chimpanzees and elephants, achieving widely recognized legal firsts for his clients. Most notably, under Wise's leadership the NhRP filed a habeas corpus petition on behalf of Happy, an elephant held alone in captivity at the Bronx Zoo. Happy's case, which historian Jill Lepore has called "the most important animal-rights case of the 21st-century," reached the New York Court of Appeals in 2022. The Court of Appeals then became the highest court of an English-speaking jurisdiction to hear arguments calling for a legal right for an animal. Although the Court ultimately denied Happy's petition, two judges wrote historic dissents refuting the idea that only humans can have rights. Under Wise's leadership, the NhRP also helped develop and pass the first animal rights law in the country in 2023-an ordinance that protects elephants' right to liberty. Wise said he decided to become a lawyer after developing a deep commitment to social justice as a result of his involvement in the anti-Vietnam War movement while an undergraduate at the College of William and Mary. He graduated from Boston University Law School in 1976 and began his legal career as a criminal defense lawyer. Several years later, Peter Singer's book Animal Liberation inspired Wise to become an animal protection lawyer. From 1985 to 1995, Wise was president of the Animal Legal Defense Fund. As Wise told The New York Times Magazine, his litigation work during this time led him to conclude that the rightlessness of animals was the fundamental barrier to humans vindicating animals' interests. This is because, under animal welfare laws, lawyers must make the case for how a human has been harmed by the animal's treatment or situation; as Wise elaborated in his writings and talks, legal injuries to animals do not matter in court because animals are unjustly considered legal "things" with no rights, legally equivalent to inanimate objects, their intrinsic interests essentially invisible to judges. In 1995, Wise launched the Nonhuman Rights Project to address this core issue facing all animals and their advocates. After more than a decade of preparation, the NhRP filed first-of-their-kind lawsuits in 2013, demanding rights for four captive chimpanzees in New York State. A year and a half later, two of the NhRP's clients became the first animals in legal history to have habeas corpus hearings to determine the lawfulness of their imprisonment. Wise was also a leading force in the development of animal law as a distinct academic curriculum, teaching the first-ever animal law course offered at Harvard University in 2000. He remained committed to educating the next generation of animal rights lawyers throughout his career, teaching animal rights jurisprudence at law schools around the world, including Stanford Law School, the University of Miami Law School, St. Thomas University Law School, John Marshall Law School, Lewis and Clark Law School, Vermont Law School, Tel Aviv University, and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Wise is the author of four books: Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals (2000); Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights (2002); Though the Heavens May Fall: T...

Steven M. Wise—founder and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP); an attorney, author, and legal scholar, Wise is leading NhRP's pioneering effort to free an elephant named Happy from […] The post Steven M. Wise, founder and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project first appeared on Talking Animals.

This week we interview Kevin Schneider, an attorney and the Executive Director of the Nonhuman Rights Project. Founded in 1996 by attorney Steven M. Wise, the Nonhuman Rights Project works to secure legally recognized fundamental rights for nonhuman animals through litigation, advocacy, and education. Their mission is to change the legal status of at least some nonhuman animals from mere “things,” which lack the capacity to possess any legal right, to “persons,” who possess such fundamental rights as bodily integrity and bodily liberty and those other legal rights to which evolving standards of morality, scientific discovery, and human experience entitle them. Music by Izaak Opatz & Sun Araw

Steven M. Wise is founder and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP). He has taught animal rights law at Harvard Law School, Vermont Law School, John Marshall Law School, Lewis & Clark Law School, and Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine and is the author of numerous books and articles. He has practiced animal protection law for 30 years throughout the US and his work on the legal personhood of chimpanzees and elephants has been featured in the New York Times, CNN, BBC, and The Guardian, among others, as well as in the HBO documentary movie Unlocking the Cage. Steven gave this lecture at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, on 5 April 2018. This talk was part of the “Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy” series. For more information on the talk series, visit: http://www.talkinganimals.co.uk This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U.

Steven M. Wise is founder and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP). He has taught animal rights law at Harvard Law School, Vermont Law School, John Marshall Law School, Lewis & Clark Law School, and Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine and is the author of numerous books and articles. He has practiced animal protection law for 30 years throughout the US and his work on the legal personhood of chimpanzees and elephants has been featured in the New York Times, CNN, BBC, and The Guardian, among others, as well as in the HBO documentary movie Unlocking the Cage. Steven gave this lecture at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, on 5 April 2018. This talk was part of the “Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy” series. For more information on the talk series, visit: http://www.talkinganimals.co.uk.

Steven M. Wise is founder and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP). He has taught animal rights law at Harvard Law School, Vermont Law School, John Marshall Law School, Lewis & Clark Law School, and Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine and is the author of numerous books and articles. He has practiced animal protection law for 30 years throughout the US and his work on the legal personhood of chimpanzees and elephants has been featured in the New York Times, CNN, BBC, and The Guardian, among others, as well as in the HBO documentary movie Unlocking the Cage. Steven gave this lecture at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, on 5 April 2018. This talk was part of the “Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy” series. For more information on the talk series, visit: http://www.talkinganimals.co.uk This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U.

Steven M. Wise is founder and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP). He has taught animal rights law at Harvard Law School, Vermont Law School, John Marshall Law School, Lewis & Clark Law School, and Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine and is the author of numerous books and articles. He has practiced animal protection law for 30 years throughout the US and his work on the legal personhood of chimpanzees and elephants has been featured in the New York Times, CNN, BBC, and The Guardian, among others, as well as in the HBO documentary movie Unlocking the Cage. Steven gave this lecture at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, on 5 April 2018. This talk was part of the “Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy” series. For more information on the talk series, visit: http://www.talkinganimals.co.uk.

Steven M. Wise is founder and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP). He has taught animal rights law at Harvard Law School, Vermont Law School, John Marshall Law School, Lewis & Clark Law School, and Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine and is the author of numerous books and articles. He has practiced animal protection law for 30 years throughout the US and his work on the legal personhood of chimpanzees and elephants has been featured in the New York Times, CNN, BBC, and The Guardian, among others, as well as in the HBO documentary movie Unlocking the Cage. Steven gave this lecture at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, on 5 April 2018. This talk was part of the “Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy” series. For more information on the talk series, visit: http://www.talkinganimals.co.uk This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U.

Steven M. Wise is founder and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP). He has taught animal rights law at Harvard Law School, Vermont Law School, John Marshall Law School, Lewis & Clark Law School, and Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine and is the author of numerous books and articles. He has practiced animal protection law for 30 years throughout the US and his work on the legal personhood of chimpanzees and elephants has been featured in the New York Times, CNN, BBC, and The Guardian, among others, as well as in the HBO documentary movie Unlocking the Cage. Steven gave this lecture at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, on 5 April 2018. This talk was part of the “Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy” series. For more information on the talk series, visit: http://www.talkinganimals.co.uk This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U.

There is a great fight over the release of two chimpanzees, Tommy the chimpanzee, caged in a warehouse in Gloversville, New York, and Kiko, caged in a storefront at the Primary Sanctuary in Niagara Falls, New York. In a recent legal ruling by a New York appeals court, the court struck down the habeas appeal by the Nonhuman Rights Project. According to a Nonhuman Rights project press release, “the court held that the NhRP did not have the right to seek second writs of habeas corpus on behalf of Tommy and Kiko then gave certain non-binding opinions about granting legal personhood to nonhuman animals. The NhRP intends to seek appeal of this decision to New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals.” The Nonhuman Rights Project vows to continue to argue that the chimps’ capabilities require that they have the same fundamental rights as humans. Others have disagreed that this is not a “personhood issue” but rather a human responsibility issue. On Lawyer 2 Lawyer, hosts Bob Ambrogi and Craig Williams join guests, Steven M. Wise, president of the Nonhuman Rights Project, and Richard L. Cupp, J.D., the John W. Wade professor of law at Pepperdine University, as they discuss the recent legal ruling involving captive chimpanzees, the debate over animals as "legal persons,” animal rights, animal law, and next steps. Steven M. Wise is president of the Nonhuman Rights Project, the only civil rights organization in the United States working for the legal rights of nonhuman animals. Richard L. Cupp, J.D. is the John W. Wade professor of law at Pepperdine University, where he teaches torts, products liability, remedies, and animal law. Special thanks to our sponsors, Clio and Litera.

2017.03.07 World-renowned animal rights attorney Steven Wise talks about his ground-breaking efforts to win legal personhood status for highly intelligent animals such as chimpanzees, elephants, and whales. The author of four books on the history of animal law, he has gone toe to toe with some of the best legal minds in the world, in defense of his efforts on behalf of sentient beings with no rights to defend themselves. Wise made history by filing lawsuits on behalf of caged chimps, cases heard for the first time in U.S. civil courts. Speaker Steven M. Wise Founder and President, The Nonhuman Rights Project

On December 2, 2013, the first ever lawsuit on behalf of captive chimpanzees was filed in the New York Supreme Court. The objective of that lawsuit was to grant Tommy (a chimpanzee) bodily freedom through a common law writ of habeas corpus. Since then, two similar lawsuits have been filed. Leading the charge in all three actions is world-renowned animal rights lawyer Steven M. Wise from the Nonhuman Rights Project. In this episode of Lawyer 2 Lawyer, host J. Craig Williams welcomes back Mr. Wise to discuss the legal theories behind his cases as well as other animals that could potentially benefit. Tune in to hear why Steven is not deterred by the recent loss in Tommy's appeal and the difference between legal personhood and being human. To hear more from Steven M. Wise on this topic, please listen to "Should a Chimpanzee Have Human Rights?" which was recorded before Tommy's case was filed. Steven M. Wise is the president of the Nonhuman Rights Project and has been practicing animal protection law nationwide for 30 years. He currently teaches Animal Rights Jurisprudence at Lewis and Clark, University of Miami, and St. Thomas Law Schools and has previously taught Animal Rights Law at the Harvard and John Marshall Law Schools. Wise has published four books on animal rights, including Rattling the Cage - Toward Legal Rights for Animals, and is currently heading three simultaneous lawsuits in the State of New York to free Chimpanzees. Special thanks to our sponsor, Clio.

We make split second decisions about others – someone is male or female, black or white, us or them. But sometimes the degrees of separation are incredibly few. A mere handful of genes determine skin color, for example. Find out why race is almost non-existent from a biological perspective, and how the snippet of DNA that is the Y chromosome came to separate male from female. Plus, why we’re wired to categorize. And, a groundbreaking court case proposes to erase the dividing line between species: lawyers argue to grant personhood status to our chimpanzee cousins. Guests: David Page – Biologist and geneticist, at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Stephen Stearns – Evolutionary biologist, Yale University John Dovidio – Social psychologist at Yale University Steven M. Wise – Lawyer, Nonhuman Rights Project Descripción en español

If it’s not legally a human, it’s a thing. But animal rights advocates argue these alternatives fail to recognize that there are many cognitively complex species who deserve to be treated as people. The Nonhuman Rights Project is planning to file a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of a chimp to grant her the right to bodily liberty. This will release her from the cage she is currently living in, and the project will have her admitted into a cageless sanctuary. Steven M. Wise, president of The Nonhuman Rights Project, has been researching and planning this case for 20 years. Steven M. Wise has been practicing animal protection law nationwide for for the past 30 years. He was the first professor to teach animal law at Harvard University and is still teaching animal law courses all over the world. He has published four books on the matter, including Rattling the Cage – Toward Legal Rights for Animals. On this edition of Lawyer2Lawyer, hosts Bob Ambrogi and J. Craig Williams will talk with Wise about the case to grant a chimp the right to bodily liberty and The Nonhuman Rights Project’s long-term plans for animal rights Special thanks to our sponsor, Clio.