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Steven M. Wise on Legal Rights for Animals

Animal Ethics

The European Community and the member states signatory to the treaty are required “to pay full regard to the welfare requirements of animals.” In 2002 the German Parliament amended Article 26 of the Basic Law to give nonhuman animals the right to be “respected as fellow creatures” and to be protected from “avoidable pain.”

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Sonia Sotomayor on Empathy

Animal Ethics

Sonia Sotomayor, " A Latina Judge's Voice ," Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 13 [2002]: 87-93, at 88) Note from KBJ: Does Judge Sotomayor have empathy for animals? Apparently not. Does she have empathy for fetuses? Does she have empathy for white males? What good is empathy if it's selective?

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