Word: wised
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...coming field," said Steven M. Wise, who will teach the course as an adjunct professor in the spring. "Harvard both is offering the course because it is an up and coming area, and the fact that they are offering it...makes it more difficult for other schools to dismiss it as having no intellectual value...
...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...
According to Wise's course description, a wide variety of issues related to animal rights law will be addressed...
TIME's list of the 100 most influential people contains both the obvious and more than a few wise and courageous surprises. But I would substitute George C. Marshall for Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover for Margaret Thatcher and Woodrow Wilson for Ronald Reagan. Even better than your list of notables would be the recognition that much of what deeply influences society comes from the accumulated contributions of countless unknowns. ELROD P. HAYES Greencastle...