Should a hummingbird be able to be a plaintiff in court? According to philosopher Martha Nussbaum, the answer is yes. In her new book, Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility, the ...

"Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting, habitat destruction, or neglect of the companion animals that people ...

Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, appointed in the Philosophy Department and the Law School of the University of Chicago. She is the author of Justice for ...

As part of our ongoing event series with The Philosopher, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer sat down with Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of ...

Every now and again professional journals publish special issues devoted to "hot" topics about nonhuman animals (aka animals). Just this month two peer-reviewed journals published the first of two ...