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A Tale of Many Battles: Arguing Legal Personhood for Animals in the United States and India

Identification

Public canonical key
doi:10.1177/00699659231206691
Authors
Daniela Berti
Reported year
2023
Reported language
en
Source type
ART
First detected
2026-11-09T19:04:47.666870+00:00
Last metadata observation
2026-11-09T19:11:18.387137+00:00
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Institutions reported by the source

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · Centre d'études sud asiatiques et himalayennes · École des hautes études en sciences sociales

Documentary abstract — original language

In this article, I focus on how the issue of considering animals as legal persons has been argued in court by the Nonhuman Rights Project led by Steven Wise in the United States and how this project was recently adopted and reinterpreted by an animal rights organisation in India in preparation for their own court battle. In turn, Indian cases raising the question of the legal personhood of animals and rivers have been used by Wise as examples to argue his case in court. The comparison will raise the question of how legal ideas and strategies regarding so-called ‘rights of nature’ travel around the world, giving rise to reciprocal appropriations and possible idealisations.

Identifiers

OPENALEX
W4389275847
DOI
10.1177/00699659231206691
HAL
hal-04333660
ISSN
0069-9667
OPENAIRE
doi_dedup___::b462a97fb98e1f85bec1d7e9241dfd99

Documentary context

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ART · Article · article
Jurisdictions studied — explicit sources
IN · US
Natural entities mentioned
River

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Daniela Berti. A Tale of Many Battles: Arguing Legal Personhood for Animals in the United States and India. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/00699659231206691

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Daniela Berti. (2023). A Tale of Many Battles: Arguing Legal Personhood for Animals in the United States and India. https://doi.org/10.1177/00699659231206691
Chicago
Daniela Berti. A Tale of Many Battles: Arguing Legal Personhood for Animals in the United States and India. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/00699659231206691
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Daniela Berti. A Tale of Many Battles: Arguing Legal Personhood for Animals in the United States and India. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/00699659231206691

UDTR Global Rights of Nature Legal Library. A Tale of Many Battles: Arguing Legal Personhood for Animals in the United States and India. Documentary record: https://www.declarationuniverselledesdroitsdelarbre.org/global-rights-of-nature-radar/reference/r-2e7186d8d9f1de8341caa88a5b77c1ef/ · Last HTTP verification: not performed

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Title
HAL · source · 2026-11-09T19:04:49.805311+00:00
OpenAIRE · source · 2026-11-09T19:06:44.941914+00:00
Authors
HAL · source · 2026-11-09T19:04:49.805311+00:00
OpenAIRE · source · 2026-11-09T19:06:44.941914+00:00
Multiple reported values; disagreement retained.
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HAL · source · 2026-11-09T19:04:49.805311+00:00
OpenAIRE · source · 2026-11-09T19:06:44.941914+00:00
Identifiers
HAL · source · 2026-11-09T19:04:49.805311+00:00
OpenAIRE · source · 2026-11-09T19:06:44.941914+00:00
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Source URL
HAL · source · 2026-11-09T19:04:49.805311+00:00
OpenAIRE · source · 2026-11-09T19:06:44.941914+00:00
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IN · US ·

Daniela Berti

Source roles

Bibliographic / original publication source · https://doi.org/10.1177/00699659231206691

Institutional bibliographic repository · https://hal.science/hal-04333660

Institutional bibliographic repository · https://hal.science/hal-04333660v1

Discovery source · https://openalex.org/W4389275847

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