Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wise--a self-described animal rights advocate and practicing lawyer--has taught a similar course before at Vermont Law School and John Marshall Law School in Chicago. He also wrote a book on the subject, entitled Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals...
...What the course and the book discuss is the fact that there is a thick legal wall that stands between humans and non-humans," Wise said. "What I did in my book is try to look and investigate how non human animals came to be [thought of as] 'things' historically...
...will discuss the sources and characteristics of fundamental rights, why humans are entitled to them, why non-human animals have been denied them...and to which legal rights they should be entitled," he wrote...
...Castro out of office, and the U.S. has a long-term interest in fostering ties with the generation that will succeed him. But with Gore having to face the Florida governor?s brother in a tight presidential race, it could be a while before you're lighting up a legal Cohiba...
Even if unions are deemed legal, many doctors question whether organizing is necessary--or ethical. "We're in a group that makes in the top 1% in income, and I'm not sure we need that kind of protection," argues Fred Campbell, a San Antonio, Texas, internist. Even more troubling is the image of doctors jeopardizing their patients by going on strike. On those grounds, Albert Yellin, a Los Angeles vascular surgeon, opposed the unionization last month of 800 Los Angeles County physicians. "Using our patients as hostages to gain things within our own self-interest is anathema...