Animal Rights on Trial: Bibliography and Links
Books
Wise, Steven. Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals (2000, Perseus Publishing).
Wise, Steven. Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights (2002, Basic Books).
Regan, Tom. Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights (Roman & Littlefield, 2005).
Andrews, Kristen and Comstock, Gary, et al. Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers' Brief (Amazon Digital Services, 2018).
Singer, Peter. Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement (original publication:1975)(Harper Reissue Edition, 2009).
Francione, Gary & Steiner, Gary. Animals as Persons: Essays on the Elimination of Animal Exploitation (Columbia University Press, 2008).
Sunstein, Cass & Nussbaum, Martha. Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions (Oxford University Press, 2005).
Regan, Tom. The Case for Animal Rights (original publication: 1983)(reissue with update: Univ. of California Ress, 2004).
de Waal, Frans. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (W. W. Norton, 2017).
Safina, Carl. Beyond Words: What Animals Feel and Think (original publication: 2015)(Repriint edition: Picador, 2016).
Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff. When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals (Delta, 1996).
Articles
"His Day in Court: A Chimpanzee is Making Legal History by Suing his Captor--and Raising Profound Questions About How We Define Personhood" (New York Times Magazine, April 27, 2014).
Epstein, Richard, "Animals as Objects, or Subjects, of Rights" (Univ. of Chicago Law School)(2002).
Posner, Richard A., "Animal Rights" (110 Yale L. J.)(2000).
Regan, Tom, "The Case for Animal Rights", In Defense of Animals (Peter Singer, ed.)(1985)
Singer, Peter, "All Animals Are Equal" (1989).
Video
Hegedus, Chris & Pennebaker, D. A., directors. Unlocking the Cage (2017, 91 minutes).
Cowperthwaite, Gabriela, director. Blackfish (2013, 83 minutes).
Mukherji, Kevin. We Are One (2018, 88 minutes).
Links
Nonhuman Rights Project: Litigation
Wikipedia: Animal Liberation (Singer book)
Wikipedia: Great Ape Personhood
Extensive Bibliography for Scholars
Richard A. Epstein, Animals as Objects of Subjects of Rights, ANIMAL RIGHTS: CURRENT DEBATES AND NEW DIRECTIONS (Cass R. Sunstein & Martha C. Nussbaum eds. 2004); Richard A. Posner, Animal Rights: Legal Philosophical, and Pragmatic Perspectives, ANIMAL RIGHTS: CURRENT DEBATES AND NEW DIRECTIONS (Cass R. Sunstein & Martha C. Nussbaum eds. 2004); VI. Aesthetic Injuries, Animal Rights, and Anthropomorphism, 122 HARV. L. REV. 1204, 1216 (2009); Jeffrey L. Amestoy, Uncommon Humanity: Reflections on Judging in A Post-Human Era, 78 N.Y.U. L. REV. 1581 (2003); Richard A. Epstein, Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights, 46 PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE 469 (2003); Craig Ewasiuk, Escape Routes: The Possibility of Habeas Corpus Protection for Animals Under Modern Social Contract Theory, 48 COLUM. HUM. RTS. L. REV. 69 (2017); Adam Kolber, Standing Upright: The Moral and Legal Standing of Humans and Other Apes, 54 STAN. L. REV. 163 (2001); Will Kymlicka, Social Membership: Animal Law beyond the Property/Personhood Impasse, 40 DALHOUSIE LAW JOURNAL 123 (2017); Kenan Malik, Rights and Wrongs, 406 NATURE 675 (2000); Greg Miller, A Road Map for Animal Rights, 332 SCIENCE 30 (2011); Greg Miller, The Rise of Animal Law: Will Growing Interest in How the Legal System Deals with Animals Ultimately Lead to Changes for Researchers? 332 SCIENCE 28 (2011); Martha C. Nussbaum, Working with and for Animals: Getting the Theoretical Framework Right, 94 DENV. L. REV. 609, 615 (2017); Martha C. Nussbaum, Animal Rights: The Need for A Theoretical Basis, 114 HARV. L. REV. 1506, 1541 (2001); Richard A. Posner, Animal Rights, 110 YALE L.J. 527, 541 (2000); Diana Reiss, The Question of Animal Rights, 418 NATURE 369 (2002); Cass R. Sunstein, The Rights of Animals, 70 U. CHI. L. REV. 387, 401 (2003); Cass R. Sunstein, Standing for Animals (with Notes on Animal Rights), 47 UCLA L. REV. 1333 (2000); Laurence H. Tribe, Ten Lessons Our Constitutional Experience Can Teach Us About the Puzzle of Animal Rights: The Work of Steven M. Wise, 7 ANIMAL L. 1 (2001). 3 Richard A. Epstein, Animals as Objects of Subjects of Rights, ANIMAL RIGHTS: CURRENT DEBATES AND NEW DIRECTIONS (Cass R. Sunstein & Martha C. Nussbaum eds. 2004); Richard A. Posner, Animal Rights: Legal Philosophical, and Pragmatic Perspectives, ANIMAL RIGHTS: CURRENT DEBATES AND NEW DIRECTIONS (Cass R. Sunstein & Martha C. Nussbaum eds. 2004); Justin F. Marceau and Steven M. Wise, "Exonerating the Innocent: Habeas for Nonhuman Animals,” WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS AND THE DNA REVOLUTION - TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF FREEING THE INNOCENT (Daniel S. Medwed, ed. Cambridge University Press 2017); Steven M. Wise, A Great Shout: Legal Rights for Great Apes, in THE ANIMAL ETHICS READER (Susan J Armstrong & Richard G. Botzler eds., 2017); Steven M. Wise, Animal Rights, One Step at a Time, in ANIMAL RIGHTS: CURRENT DEBATES AND NEW DIRECTIONS (Cass R. Sunstein & Martha C. Nussbaum eds. 2004); Steven M. Wise, The Capacity of Non-Human Animals for Legal Personhood and Legal Rights, in THE POLITICS OF SPECIES: RESHAPING OUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER ANIMALS (Raymond Corbey & Annette Lanjouw eds., 2013); Katrina M. Albright, The Extension of Legal Rights to Animals Under A Caring Ethic: An Ecofeminist Exploration of Steven Wise's Rattling the Cage, 42 NAT. RESOURCES J. 915, 917 (2002); Jeffrey L. Amestoy, Uncommon Humanity: Reflections on Judging in A Post-Human Era, 78 N.Y.U. L. REV. 1581, 1591 (2003); Pat Andriola, Equal Protection for Animals, 6 BARRY U. ENVTL. & EARTH L.J. 50, 64 (2016); Louis Anthes & Michele Host, Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals. by Steven M. Wise, 25 N.Y.U. REV. L. & SOC. CHANGE 479, 482 (1999); Matthew Armstrong, Cetacean Community v. Bush: The False Hope of Animal Rights Lingers on, 12 HASTINGS W.-N.W. J. ENVTL. L. & POL'Y 185, 200 (2006); Rich Barlow, Nonhuman Rights: Is It Time to Unlock the Cage?, BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, July, 18, 2017, https://www.bu.edu/law/2017/07/18/nonhuman-rights-is-it-time-to-unlock-the-cage/; David Barton, A Death-Struggle Between Two Civilizations, 13 REGENT U. L. REV. 297, 349 (2001); Douglas E. Beloof, Crime Victims' Rights: Critical Concepts for Animal Rights, 7 ANIMAL L. 19, 27 (2001); Lane K. Bogard, An Exploration of How Laws Tend to Maintain the Oppression of Women and Animals, 38 WHITTIER L. REV. 1, 49 (2017); Purnima Bose & Laura E. Lyons, Life Writing & Corporate Personhood, 37 BIOGRAPHY 5 (2014); Becky Boyle, Free Tilly: Legal Personhood for Animals and the Intersectionality of the Civil and Animal Rights Movements, 4 IND. J.L. & SOC. 169 (2016); Taimie L. Bryant, Sacrificing the Sacrifice of Animals: Legal Personhood for Animals, the Status of Animals As Property, and the Presumed Primacy of Humans, 39 RUTGERS L.J. 247, 288 (2008); Taimie L. Bryant, Social Psychology and the Value of Vegan Business Representation for Animal Law Reform, 2015 MICH. ST. L. REV. 1521, 1556 (2015); David E. Burke, Lawsuits Seeking Personhood for Chimpanzees Are Just the Tip of the Iceberg, ORANGE COUNTY LAW, April 2014, at 18; Ross Campbell, Justifying Force Against Animal Cruelty, 12 J. ANIMAL & NAT. RESOURCE L. 129, 151 (2016); M. Varn Chandola, Dissecting American Animal Protection Law: Healing the Wounds with Animal Rights and Eastern Enlightenment, 8 WIS. ENVTL. L.J. 3, 14 (2002); Clifton Coles, Legal Personhood for Animals, 36 THE FUTURIST 12 (2002); R.A. Conrad, Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals, 166 MIL. L. REV. 226, 231 (2000); Richard L. Cupp Jr., A Dubious Grail: Seeking Tort Law Expansion and Limited Personhood As Stepping Stones Toward Abolishing Animals' Property Status, 60 SMU L. REV. 3 (2007); Richard L. Cupp, Jr., Human Responsibility, Not Legal Personhood, for Nonhuman Animals, 16 ENGAGE: J. FEDERALIST SOC'Y PRAC. GROUPS 34 (2015); Richard L. Cupp, Jr., Focusing on Human Responsibility Rather Than Legal Personhood for Nonhuman Animals, 33 PACE ENVTL. L. REV. 517, 518 (2016); Richard L. Cupp, Jr., Moving Beyond Animal Rights: A Legal/contractualist Critique, 46 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 27, 46 (2009); Richard L. Cupp, Jr., Children, Chimps, and Rights: Arguments from "Marginal" Cases, 45 ARIZ. ST. L.J. 1, 3 (2013); Bill Davis, Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights, 49 FED. LAW 54 (2002); Jenny B. Davis, Animal Instincts This Washington, D.C., Lawyer Wants the Common Law to Evolve to Grant Basic Human Rights to Complex Animals, ABA J., November 2015; Daniel Davison-Vecchione and Kate Pambos, Steven M. Wise and the Common Law Case for Animal Rights: Full Steam Ahead, 30 CAN. J.L. & JURIS. 287 (2017); Ralph ADeMeo, Defining Animal Rights and Animal Welfare: A Lawyer’s Guide, 91 FLA. B. J. 42 (2017); Alexis Dyschkant, Legal Personhood: How We Are Getting It Wrong, 2015 U. ILL. L. REV. 2075, 2109 (2015); Richard A. Epstein, Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights, 46 PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE 469 (2003); Jennifer Everett, Book Review: Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals, 7 ETHICS & THE ENVIRONMENT 147 (2002); David S. Favre, Judicial Recognition of the Interests of Animals-A New Tort, 2005 MICH. ST. L. REV. 333, 335 (2005); Emily A. Fitzgerald, (Ape)rsonhood, 34 REV. LITIG. 337, 338 (2015); Frances H. Foster, Should Pets Inherit?, 63 FLA. L. REV. 801, 842 (2011); David Fraser, Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights, 78 THE QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY 79 (2003); Valéry Giroux, Animals Do Have an Interest in Liberty, 6 JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ETHICS 20 (2016); Cathy B. Glenn, Conceiving Person: Toward a Fully Democratic Critical Practice, 30 JAC 491 (2010); Ellen P. Goodman, Animal Ethics and the Law A Review of Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions (Cass R. Sunstein & Martha C. Nussbaum Eds., Oxford University Press 2004), 79 TEMP. L. REV. 1291, 1300 (2006); Lee Hall, Interwoven Threads: Some Thoughts on Professor Mackinnon's Essay of Mice and Men, 14 UCLA WOMEN'S L.J. 163, 188 (2005); Susan J. Hankin, Not A Living Room Sofa: Changing the Legal Status of Companion Animals, 4 RUTGERS J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 314, 381 (2007); Ruth Hatten, Legal Personhood for Animals: Can it be Achieved in Australia?, 11 AUSTRALIAN ANIMAL PROTECTION LAW JOURNAL 35 (2015); Deawn A. Hersini, Can't Get There from Here . . . Without Substantive Revision: The Case for Amending the Animal Welfare Act, 70 UMKC L. REV. 145, 167 (2001); Oliver Houck, Unsettling Messengers, 34 ENVIRONMENTAL FORUM 6 (2017); Vishrut Kansal, The Curious Case of Nagaraja in India: Are Animals Still Regarded as “Property” With No Claim Rights?, 19 J. INT’L WILDLIFE L. & POL’Y 256; Thomas G. Kelch, The Role of the Rational and the Emotive in A Theory of Animal Rights, 27 B.C. ENVTL. AFF. L. REV. 1, 31 (1999); Andrew Jensen Kerr, Coercing Friendship and the Problem with Human Rights, 50 U.S.F.L. REV. F. 1, 6 (2015); Andrew Jensen Kerr, Writing About Nonpersons, 164 U. PA. L. REV. ONLINE 77, 84 (2016); Kelsey Kobil, When it Comes to Standing, Two Legs are Better than Four, 120 PENN ST. L. REV. 621 (2015); Adam Kolber, Standing Upright: The Moral and Legal Standing of Humans and Other Apes, 54 STAN. L. REV. 163 (2001); Angela Lee, Telling Tails: The Promises and Pitfalls of Language and Narratives in Animal AdvocacyEfforts, 23 ANIMAL L. 241, 254 (2017); Emma A. Maddux, Time to Stand: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Nonhuman Animal Standing, 47 WAKE FOREST L. REV. 1243, 1261 (2012); Kenan Malik, Rights and Wrongs, 406 NATURE 675 (2000); Greg Miller, A Road Map for Animal Rights, 332 SCIENCE 30 (2011); Greg Miller, The Rise of Animal Law: Will Growing Interest in How the Legal System Deals with Animals Ultimately Lead to Changes for Researchers? 332 SCIENCE 28 (2011); Blake M. Mills & Steven M. Wise, The Writ De Homine Replegiando: A Common Law Path to Nonhuman Animal Rights, 25 GEO. MASON U. CIV. RTS. L.J. 159 (2015); Laura Ireland Moore, A Review of Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions, 11 ANIMAL L. 311, 314 (2005); Ruth Payne, Animal Welfare, Animal Rights, and the Path to Social Reform: One Movement's Struggle for Coherency in the Quest for Change, 9 VA. J. SOC. POL'Y & L. 587, 618 (2002); Jordan Carr Peterson, Of Non-Human Bondage: Great Apes, Blind Eyes, and Disorderly Company, 9 J. ANIMAL & NAT. RESOURCE L. 83, 95 (2013); Diana Reiss, The Question of Animal Rights, 418 NATURE 369 (2002); Tania Rice, Letting the Apes Run the Zoo: Using Tort Law to Provide Animals with A Legal Voice, 40 PEPP. L. REV. 1103, 1128 (2013); Joan E. Schaffner, Chapter 11 Blackfish and Public Outcry: A Unique Political andLegal Opportunity for Fundamental Change to the Legal Protection of Marine Mammals in the United States, 53 IUS GENTIUM 237, 256 (2016); Joan E. Schaffner, Animal Law in Australasia: A Universal Dialogue of “Trading Off” Animal Welfare, 6 JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ETHICS 95 (2016); Anders Schinkel, Martha Nussbaum on Animal Rights, 13 ETHICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT 41 (2009); Megan A. Senatori, The Second Revolution: The Diverging Paths of Animal Activism and Environmental Law, 8 WIS. ENVTL. L.J. 31, 39 (2002); S.M. Solaiman, Legal Personality of Robots, Corporations, Idols and Chimpanzees: A Quest for Legitimacy, 25 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LAW 155 (2017); Cass R. Sunstein, The Rights of Animals, 70 U. CHI. L. REV. 387, 401 (2003); Cass R. Sunstein, Standing for Animals (with Notes on Animal Rights), 47 UCLA L. REV. 1333 (2000); Brian Sullivan, Instant Evolution Some Espouse Fauna/flora Fast Track to Personhood As Means of Legal Protection, ABA J., February 2014, at 71; Lisa Stansky, Personhood for Bonzo, 86 ABA J. 94 (2000); Jerrold Tannenbaum, What Is Animal Law?, 61 CLEV. ST. L. REV. 891, 935 (2013); Erica R. Tatoian, Animals in the Law: Occupying A Space Between Legal Personhood and Personal Property, 31 J. ENVTL. L. & LITIG. 147, 156 (2015); Joyce Tischler, A Brief History of Animal Law, Part II (1985 - 2011), 5 STAN. J. ANIMAL L. & POL'Y 27, 60 (2012); Joyce Tischler, Monica Miller, Steven M. Wise, Elizabeth Stein, Manumission for Chimpanzees, 84 TENN. L. REV. 509, 511 (2017); Laurence H. Tribe, Ten Lessons Our Constitutional Experience Can Teach Us About the Puzzle of Animal Rights: The Work of Steven M. Wise, 7 ANIMAL L. 1 (2001); Bryan Vayr, Of Chimps and Men: Animal Welfare vs. Animal Rights and How Losing the Legal Battle May Win the Political War foSpecies of Rights, 89 CAL. L. REV. 207, 209 (2001); Paul Waldau, Will the Heavens Fall? DeRadicalizing the Precedent-Breaking Decision, 7 ANIMAL L. 75, 78 (2001); Peter S. Wenz, Against Cruelty to Animals, 33 SOCIAL THEORY AND PRACTICE 127 (2007); Steven White, Animals and the Law: A New Legal Frontier?, 29 Melb. U. L. REV. 298, 303 (2005); Thomas I. White, Humans and Dolphins: An Exploration of Anthropocentrism in Applied Environmental Ethics, 3 JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ETHICS 85 (2013); Steven M. Wise, Introduction to Animal Law Book, 67 SYRACUSE L. REV. 7 (2017); Steven M. Wise, Legal Personhood and the Nonhuman Rights Project, 17 ANIMAL L. 1 (2010); Steven M. Wise, Nonhuman Rights to Personhood, 30 PACE ENVTL. L. REV. 1278 (2013); Steven M. Wise, Elizabeth Stein, Monica Miller, Sarah Stone, The Power of Municipalities to Enact Legislation Granting Legal Rights to Nonhuman Animals Pursuant to Home Rule, 67 SYRACUSE L. REV. 31, 32 (2017); Steven M. Wise, Rattling the Cage Defended, 43 B.C. L. REV. 623, 624 (2002); Steven M. Wise, The Entitlement of Chimpanzees to the Common Law Writs of Habeas Corpus and De Homine Replegiando, 37 GOLDEN GATE U. L. REV. 219, 220 (2007); Steven M. Wise, Animal Thing to Animal Person-Thoughts on Time, Place, and Theories, 5 ANIMAL L. 61 (1999); Steven M.Wise, Animal Law-the Casebook, 6 Animal L. 251, 252 (2000); David J. Wolfson, Steven M.Wise: Rattling the Cage-Toward Legal Rights for Animals, 6 ANIMAL L. 259, 262 (2000); Richard York, Humanity and Inhumanity: Toward a Sociology of the Slaughterhouse, 17 ORGANIZATION AND ENVIRONMENT 260 (2004); Randall S. Abate and Jonathan Crowe, From Inside the Cage to Outside the Box, 5(1) Global Journal of Animal Law (2017); Jonas –Sebastian Beaudry, From Autonomy to Habeas Corpus: Animal Rights Activists Take the Parameters of Legal Personhood to Court, 4(1) Global Journal of Animal Law (2016); Natalie Prosin and Steven M. Wise, The Nonhuman Rights Project - Coming to a Country Near You, in 2(2) Global Journal of Animal Law (2014); “Why Things Can Hold Rights: Reconceptualizing the Legalr Endangered Species, 2017 U. ILL. L. REV. 817, 857 (2017); Robert R.M. Verchick, A New Species of Rights, 89 CAL. L. REV. 207, 209 (2001); Paul Waldau, Will the Heavens Fall? DeRadicalizing the Precedent-Breaking Decision, 7 ANIMAL L. 75, 78 (2001); Peter S. Wenz, Against Cruelty to Animals, 33 SOCIAL THEORY AND PRACTICE 127 (2007); Steven White, Animals and the Law: A New Legal Frontier?, 29 Melb. U. L. REV. 298, 303 (2005); Thomas I. 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