That’s One Small Step for a Judge, One Giant Leap for the Nonhuman Rights Project

She said that “persons” are not restricted to human beings...The parameters of legal personhood have long been and will continue to be discussed and debated by legal theorists, commentators, and courts,” she wrote, ”and will not be focused on semantics or biology, or even philosophy, but on the proper allocation of rights under the law.”
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