On December 26, 2017, Judge James M. Bentivegna summarily dismissed the NhRP’s petition for a writ of habeous corpus for the release and...

It has been a while since the NonHuman Rights Project has done something newsworthy, but we can now report that NhRP has moved on from...

A Manhattan judge today denied a petition for habeas corpus to release two chimpanzees held by the State University of New York at Stony...

I had the pleasure of meeting Professor Laurence Tribe over twenty years ago when, as general counsel of Borland Software (makers of the...

I filed an amicus curiae brief in New York court in Manhattan last week opposing a petition by the NonHuman Rights Project seeking the...

After a Manhattan judge signed an order for a hearing regarding the petition by the NonHuman Rights Project's petition for the release of...

The honorable Judge Barbara Jaffe of Manhattan has signed an order to show cause why a writ of habeas corpus should not be issued behalf...

Yesterday, I filed an amicus brief on behalf of The Center for the Study of the Great Ideas in opposition to a lawsuit by the Nonhuman...

On December 4, 2014, the Appellate Division of the NY Supreme Court rejected the appeal by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP) for a writ...

Today, a three-judge panel of a NY State Appellate Division ruled unanimously to deny personhood to a chimp named Tommy. In the amicus...

Yesterday, I attended the appellate hearing in the case of Nonhuman Rights Project v. Tommy, a suit filed by the NRP to free a chimp from...

Earlier today, I filed an amicus brief in opposition to a lawsuit by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP) to release a chimp from captivity...

Daniel Dewey, a research fellow on Machine Superintelligence and the Future of AI at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute,...

In an earlier post, I promised to review the legal arguments proffered by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP) in their petition for the...

In today's Independent, famed-physicist Stephen Hawking joined several colleagues in sounding the alarm about the risks of artificial...

After the singularity scientist Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is shot by an anti-robot extremist, Caster's wife, Evelyn, manages to upload...

The New York Times today put its considerable weight behind the question of whether non-human animals, such as chimpanzees, should be...

On the suggestion of an advertisement, Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) downloads what the ad declares to be the first artificially...

As one who could not be more sympathetic with the plight of animals suffering in captivity, I have been following with interest the work...

Deep-seated fears of technology have long been a subject that has repeatedly surfaced in the imaginative realm of sci-fi writers--from...