Reading Group: The Non-Human Rights Project
Tue 24 Mar
|Law Senior Common Room (or online)
Theme: The Non-Human Rights Project - Animal Rights, Habeas Corpus, and Critiques of the So-Like-Us Approach
Time & Location
24 Mar 2026, 15:00 – 17:00
Law Senior Common Room (or online), University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
About the event
The Multispecies Collective Reading Group
About
The Multispecies Collective Reading Group is our flagship gathering where our members meet our network and engage with a text in pursuit of mutual inspiration to attain our objectives in line with our values.
Join us for this session, in person or online, to join our discussion of the following theme and texts:
Theme
The Non-Human Rights Project - Animal Rights, Habeas Corpus, and Critiques of the So-Like-Us Approach
Texts
Steven M Wise, ‘Legal Personhood and the Nonhuman Rights Project’ (2010) 17 Animal Law Review 1.
Martha C Nussbaum, ‘Working with and for Animals: Getting the Theoretical Framework Right’ (2018) 19(1) Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 2.
Jessica Eisen, ‘Litigating Animal Captivity: Habeas Corpus in the Carceral State’ in Lori Gruen and Justin Marceau (eds), Carceral logics: human incarceration and animal captivity (Cambridge University Press 2022).
You can find the texts and a space for discussion in our Padlet blackboard.