Steven M. Wise
American legal scholar (1950-2024) · United States · On the map · Lawyers · Died at 73
Steven M. Wise was an American lawyer and legal scholar who specialized in animal rights, primatology, and animal intelligence.
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He taught animal rights law at Harvard Law School, Vermont Law School, John Marshall Law School, Lewis & Clark Law School, Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, and at the Master’s in Animal Law and Society of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He was a former president of the Animal Legal Defense Fund and founder and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project. The Yale Law Journal called him "one of the pistons of the animal rights movement."
