Steven M Wise
President of the Nonhuman Rights Project, Inc. The Nonhuman Rights Project is the only civil rights organization in the United States working to achieve actual LEGAL rights for members of species other than our own, and to change the legal status of appropriate nonhuman animals from mere “things,” which cannot possess any legal right, to “persons,” who possess fundamental rights as bodily integrity and bodily liberty. He has practiced animal protection law for 30 years throughout the United States, teaches “Animal Rights Jurisprudence”, and taught “Animal Rights Law” at the Harvard Law School and John Marshall Law School, and is admitted to the Massachusetts Bar. He has authored numerous law reviews and popular articles and several books including Rattling the Cage, Drawing the Line,
