- Animal Law
- Ethics & Philosophy
- Law & Policy
- Legal Personhood
Dr O’Donnell is an Australian water law and policy specialist at the University of Melbourne. Her PhD explored the implications of using a legal person to represent the aquatic environment, with the responsibility of holding and managing water rights. We spoke to Erin about the concept of granting legal rights to natural entities, and asked her about the idea of extending legal personhood to nonhuman animals.
- Animal Law
- Ethics & Philosophy
- Legal Personhood
- Sentience
We spoke to Joyce Tischler, affectionately known as "the Mother of Animal Law", at the Minding Animals Conference in Mexico City about her work for the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), and her thoughts on the movement to recognise legal rights for nonhuman animals.
- Animal Law
- Law & Policy
- Legal Personhood
- Sentience
Voiceless recently interviewed Professor Steven Wise, founder of the ground-breaking Nonhuman Rights Project in the USA. We spoke to Professor Wise about the Project’s aims, challenges and successes to date.
- Animal Law
- Ethics & Philosophy
- Farm Animal Welfare
- Law & Policy
- Sentience
By Yael Gabay, Founder, Israel Against Live Exports
Why are politicians so reluctant to take a stand against live export, which most of their citizens support?
- Animal Law
- Ethics & Philosophy
- Law & Policy
Over the past week, in response to two shark attacks, six sharks have been caught on baited hooks and shot as part of the Queensland Government’s Shark Control Program. There is no conclusive evidence that culling sharks makes swimmers any safer.
- Dairy
- Ethics & Philosophy
- Factory Farming
- Farm Animal Welfare
- Law & Policy
- Plant-based diet
- Sentience
By Anna Wotherspoon, law student
Growing awareness of the welfare concerns posed by animal use industries has ushered in a variety of ‘higher welfare’ products. Is exploitation escapable where animals are used to produce marketable goods consumed by the masses?
- Animal Law
- Ethics & Philosophy
- Law & Policy
- Sentience
By Meghan Scolyer, law student
In a landmark ruling last month, the High Court of the Indian state of Uttarakhand granted all animals within the state the status of legal personhood.
- Animal Activism
- Animal Law
- Ethics & Philosophy
- Factory Farming
- Farm Animal Welfare
- Sentience
This is an edited extract from The Lives of Brian by Brian Sherman with AM Jonson.
- Animal Activism
- Ethics & Philosophy
- Factory Farming
- Farm Animal Welfare
- Law & Policy
- Plant-based diet
- Sentience
Yet animal protection is one of the fastest growing social justice movements of our time
- Ethics & Philosophy
- Factory Farming
- Sentience
Pigs are very much like dogs in all the ways that count: they are intelligent, social beings, with very strong bonds to their young, to their friends, and even, when permitted, to us. So why are they treated so very differently?