Steven Wise
Professor of Animal Rights Jurisprudence at the Vermont Law School
Professor of Animal Rights Jurisprudence at the Vermont Law School
Steven Wise holds a BSc in Chemistry from the College of William and Mary and a JD from Boston University School of Law. He currently teaches Animal Rights Jurisprudence at the Vermont Law School, Lewis and Clark Law School, and St. Thomas Law School, and has taught this class at the Harvard Law School, University of Miami Law School, and John Marshall Law School. He is the author of several books on animal rights and numerous law review articles. Wise directs the Nonhuman Rights Project (www.nonhumanrights.org), the purpose of which is to persuade courts that at least some non-human animals are legal persons with certain fundamental legal rights. Its first cases will be brought in 2013.
