Ordens De Habeas Corpus Para Primatas Não Humanos Nos Estados Unidos E O Projeto De Direitos Não Humanos: Processos Legais E Argumentos Utilizados Para Garantir Os Direitos Dos Animais Não Humanos
Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: Questions concerning (nonhuman) animal rights have been increasingly addressed within the criminological literature due to growing interest in green criminology. Often within criminology, animal rights issues have been primarily addressed from philosophical standpoints, which omit how animal rights are addressed in more concrete terms through the legal system. This philosophical orientation toward animal rights, while important, has led to a neglect of the ways in which animal rights might be promoted through legal means. This article addresses that latter point by exploring the use of writs of habeas corpus for animals promoted by Steven Wise and the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) in the US. Much of the NhRP’s efforts have been devoted to nonhuman primates, and consistent with that approach, this assessment focuses attention on legal efforts to protect nonhuman primates’ rights. In addition to NhRP efforts, other possibilities for using the law to obtain rights for animals in the US are examined. While this article focuses on circumstances in the US, several nations employ such writs or similar legal mechanisms
Author: J. Lynch, Michael
Institution: University of South Florida
Language: Portuguese
Topic: Animal Law and Welfare
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funder: Universidad de Extremadura
OpenAlex ID: W7215705167