THIS MONDAY: Steven Wise at Stanford

[Guest guest]

Stanford Law School

Student Animal Legal Defense Fund presents…

 

*An evening with animal rights lawyer Steven Wise*

 

Monday, April 25, 7:00 PM

Stanford Law School, Room 185

Free & open to the public

Directions: www.law.stanford.edu/about/dirmap/driving.html

 

Professor Wise will join us for a screening of A Legal Person, a documentary

exploring his work on behalf of animal law. He will speak after the film

and take questions from the audience.

 

A Legal Person, the new feature-length documentary from directors Donna

Thomas and Paul Garstki, takes us into the mind of Steven Wise, as he in

turn takes us into the minds and lives of chimpanzees and bonobos (his

first candidates for personhood), making the points that he insists will

inevitably cause the legal world to come around to his way of thinking.

 

STEVEN M. WISE, J.D. is the author of Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights

for Animals, a groundbreaking work of legal scholarship hailed as a primary

text in the fight for legal rights for animals. Wise has practiced animal

protection law for twenty years and has taught animal rights law at the

Harvard Law School, Vermont Law School, John Marshall Law School, and in

the Masters Program in Animals and Public Policy at Tufts University School

of Veterinary Medicine. Former president of the Animal Legal Defense Fund,

founder and president of the Center for the Expansion of Fundamental

Rights, he has written numerous scholarly articles about animal rights.