
The Right to Personhood: One Professor’s Fight for Animals | University of Denver
What if dogs were more than just “man’s best friend?”That’s an over-simplified version of the question being asked by animal rights lawyers like Justin Marceau, the Brooks Institute Faculty Research Scholar of Animal Law and Policy at the Sturm College of Law.Essentially, some activists and legal scholars are arguing that some animals—like dogs and elephants—should be granted “legal personhood.” A legal person is defined as “a human or a nonhuman legal entity that is treated as a person for lega...