About This Class
Nonhuman animals presently have no legal rights. We will discuss what legal rights are, what are the sources andcharacteristics of fundamental rights, why nonhuman animals are presently denied them, why all humans are presently entitled to them, whether they should be available for nonhumans under the common law and, if they should, which rights should nonhuman animals have, which animals should have them, and what strategies are available for obtaining them.