Welcome to the Nonhuman Rights Project


Chimpanzees R Us 

After watching the new Disney movie, what else can one reasonably conclude, except that chimpanzees are, in important ways, remarkably complex beings who are remarkably like us? It prods us at the Nonhuman Rights Project to redouble our efforts to gain our remarkable cousins fundamental legal rights. More…

About the Project
For a long time, a thick legal wall has separated all humans from all nonhumans. More…

Are You a Legal Person?
The common law transformation of a nonhuman animal from “legal thing” to “legal person” is a primary objective of the Nonhuman Rights Project.. More …

ON THE BLOG
Send In the Clowns
When American chimpanzee vivisection whimpers out – and it will, soon – this will not be the end, but the beginning, of the work of the Nonhuman Rights Project.
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GETTING IT STRAIGHT
The Difference between Legal Standing and Legal Capacity

It’s a common confusion: capacity to have any legal right, or legal personhood, and legal standing. It makes a big difference.
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IN THE NEWS
PBS Asks: Should We Still Have Chimpanzees in Laboratories?
They share 99 percent of our DNA, and it shows. They scheme, plot and fight. They care for their babies, and they grieve their dead. And they love a good game of catch.
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ABOUT THE PROJECT
The Legal Working Group
This group of lawyers, students and professors is analyzing the law and other factors that go into judicial decision-making.
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