April 07, 2022 Program Ecuador Grants Legal Rights to Wild Animals!
“What makes this decision so important is that now the rights of nature can be used to benefit small groups or individual animals,” Kristen A. Stilt, a Harvard law professor and Faculty Director of the school’s Brooks McCormick Jr. Animal Law and Policy Program, told Inside Climate News. “That makes rights of nature a far more powerful tool than perhaps we have seen before.”
April 05, 2022 Program Ecuador becomes first country to give legal rights to wild animals: What does this mean for conservation?
Speaking to Inside Climate News, Kristen A Stilt, a Harvard law professor and faculty director of the school’s Brooks McCormick Jr Animal Law and Policy Program, said that the Ecuador court’s ruling was a milestone.
April 02, 2022 Program The First Country in The World Has Given Legal Rights to Individual Wild Animals
"In America, the rights of nature sounds like a fringe idea, but people don't realize how mainstream it is around the world," Kristen Stilt, an expert in animal law, told Inside Climate News.
April 01, 2022 Program Animal rights group wants to build advocacy pipeline with law school program
“Anything any law school can do to foster interest in animal law and help further the field and scholarship is only a good thing,” said Chris Green, executive director of Harvard Law’s Brooks McCormick Jr. Animal Law & Policy Program.