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Legal Personhood for Wildlife

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doi:10.1017/9781009777612.005
Authors
Randall S. Abate
Reported year
2026
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en
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Chapter 4 considers a variety of legal theories that have been applied to protect the rights of wildlife. In recent years, the protection of wildlife has been enhanced by extending gains secured in strategic litigation to protect the rights of nature in Latin America. Beyond the cases that leveraged rights of nature, however, many of the creative theories seeking to protect the rights of wildlife in captivity, such as habeas corpus, have not been successful in courts in the United States, whereas a few such cases outside the United States have been successful. The obstacle in most of these cases is the courts’ reluctance to interpret the term “person” to extend to non-human animals. The chapter lays a foundation to explore the troubling dichotomy of how the law is more ambitious in protecting non-human elements of nature through a variety of legal mechanisms, addressed in Chapter 5, than it is in protecting non-human animals, addressed in the cases in Chapter 4.

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Randall S. Abate. Legal Personhood for Wildlife. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009777612.005

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Randall S. Abate. (2026). Legal Personhood for Wildlife. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009777612.005
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Randall S. Abate. Legal Personhood for Wildlife. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009777612.005
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Randall S. Abate. Legal Personhood for Wildlife. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009777612.005

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