INTERVIEWS
Christopher talks to the Bloomberg Law podcast about the breakthrough Deblase v. Hill opinion recognizing a dog as “immediate family” for purposes of an emotional distress claim:
Christopher talks with Mariann Sullivan from Our Hen House's Animal Law Podcast about the landmark decision in DeBlase v. Hill and the bigger issue underneath—whether courts retain their traditional power to say what the law is when the question involves the legal status of animals:
Christopher talks with ICARE's Litigating and Legislating for Animal Rights seminar series about the judicial psychology of paradigm shifts: why judges resist recognizing animal rights, how exposure to better arguments erodes that resistance over time, and his concept of ‘shadow personhood,’ the ways courts already treat animals as legal persons without recognizing it:
Christopher talks about the groundbreaking legal theory he developed in Approximately 2,000 Beagle Dogs and Puppies v. Ridglan Farms, the first case in the United States arguing that protection under an animal welfare law should be treated as a legal right for animals:
Christopher talks about a groundbreaking decision approving an application to obtain witness testimony on behalf of Colombia’s cocaine hippos who qualified as “interested persons” for purposes of the application:
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