Rattling the Cage : Toward Legal Rights for Animals

Wise, Steven M.; Goodall, Jane (FRW)

ISBN 10: 0738204374 / ISBN 13: 9780738204376

Editore: Perseus Publishing, 2000

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• Titolo: Rattling the Cage : Toward Legal Rights for Animals
• Editore: Perseus Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0738204374
• ISBN 13: 9780738204376
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

Argues that the failure to recognize the legal rights of chimpanzees and bonobos in light of modern scientific findings creates a contradiction in our law, and seeks to demonstrate the cognitive, emotional, and social capacities of apes. Reprint.

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Steven M. Wise, J.D., has practiced animal law for over twenty years and has taught at the Harvard, Vermont, and John Marshall law schools. He is President of the Center for the Expansion of Fundamental Rights, which he founded in 1995. The author of Rattling the Cage, praised by Cass Sunstein as "an impassioned, fascinating, and in many ways startling book" (New York Times Book Review), and Drawing the Line, which Nature called "provocative and disturbing," he has been profiled nationally by such publications as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Time magazine.

Steven M. Wise, J.D., has practiced animal law for over twenty years and has taught at the Harvard, Vermont, and John Marshall law schools. He is President of the Center for the Expansion of Fundamental Rights, which he founded in 1995. The author of Rattling the Cage, praised by Cass Sunstein as "an impassioned, fascinating, and in many ways startling book" (New York Times Book Review), and Drawing the Line, which Nature called "provocative and disturbing," he has been profiled nationally by such publications as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Time magazine.