Opening Arguments

OA541: Monica Miller on Happy the Elephant and Legal Personhood for Animals

Nov 9, 2021

01:18:41

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Can You Write a Statement Against Interest?

04:32

Are We Not Going to Free All of the Dogs in the State of New York?

03:44

Elephants Pass the Mirror Test

02:19

Introduction

5min

The Hippos Are the Most Dangerous Local Animal, Not the Person

6min

Is That a Hard Case?

4min

Hungry Jack's in Australia?

2min

Why I Love My X Chair

2min

Ora Provides Complete Digital Security Protection

3min

Is Happy the Elephant a Person for the Purposes of the Common Law Right to Be Free?

3min

Is It a Fair Characterpisition?

2min

Non Human Rights Project: Ono Kan Should Win

3min

10.

Are We Not Going to Free All of the Dogs in the State of New York?

4min

11.

Elephants Pass the Mirror Test

2min

12.

Humans Can't Pass That Self Recognition Test

2min

13.

The Stock Piling Poo

2min

14.

Petrus Trusts in New York

2min

15.

Animals, as Pets, Are the Beneficiaries

5min

16.

We Want the Right to Bodily Liberty for Animals

2min

17.

Columbia Law - Hippo Cases, Clams

2min

18.

Are We Going to Have an Amarchist Brief in the New Year?

2min

19.

The New York Court of Appeal

3min

20.

Is There a Correlation Between Animals and Personhood?

2min

21.

Are You a Kangaroo Court, I'm Oftimistic?

2min

22.

Is There a Difference Between a Human and an Elephant?

2min

23.

Elephant Rights vs Welfare

2min

24.

Slash Law - Episodes 1 and 2

6min

25.

Can You Write a Statement Against Interest?

5min

26.

How to Abuse the Hearsay

4min

27.

This Is the Podcast of Opening Arguments

2min

After our episode on Cocaine Hippos, we were contacted by previous guest and all-star attorney Monica Miller about the efforts to free Happy the Elephant. Monica works with the Nonhuman Rights Project, and they are utilizing a fascinating legal strategy to try to free certain animals from captivity. She takes us through the case and the law! In the first segment, we've got a number of OA was wrongs and rights, about hippos, Mark Jensen, AMD, and more.

Links: Wild New York YouTube, Larry Tribe op-ed, National Geographic coverage, Martha Nussbaum amicus