Australasian Animal Studies Association

Australian Animal Law – Teya Brooks Pribac in conversation with Elizabeth Ellis

‘Courts … are slow to embrace change,’ said a judge who considered (and refused) a proposal to extend legal rights to chimpanzees, but she also added, citing a different judge: ‘times can blind us to certain truths and later generations can see that laws once thought necessary and proper in fact serve only to oppress.’[1] […]