Scientists are closer than ever to deciphering sperm whale communication. Their breakthroughs could open the door to expanded ...

A lawsuit is seeking to stop Los Angeles Zoo officials from shipping their two surviving elephants to another zoo in Oklahoma ...

That leads to the topic of legal personhood, defined by the late Steven Wise, founder of the Nonhuman Rights Project, as the capacity to have any rights at all. In the United States, rights are ...

There has been a legal battle going on involving a writ of habeas corpus. The Nonhuman Rights Project filed a lawsuit putting forth that Happy is being detained by the zoo illegally and due to her ...

AI is reshaping countless aspects of life. But so far, its applications have focused mostly on our singular species, Homo ...

Could this help extend some of the rights normally bestowed on humans to nonhuman animals with complex languages? These are questions evaluated by Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) and ...

Pushing to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that its chatbots caused a teen's suicide, Character Technologies is arguing that ...

Are non-human rights just a mere extension of the liberal human rights ... His research focuses on the question of law and political ontology, and he is currently working on a project about the ...