Steven M. Wise, J.D. has practiced animal law for twenty-two years and has taught "Animal Rights Law" at Harvard Law School, Vermont Law School, and John Marshall Law School
Summary
An animal rights lawyer explains how the failure to recognize the basic rights of chimpanzees and bonobos in light of modern scientific findings creates a glaring contradiction in our law. "A path-breaking book that makes it impossible to continue thinking of animals as mere property".--Peter Singer, Princeton University.