Can seals go to court?

Andreas Weber, biologist and philosopher, argues for granting animals and plants the right to defend themselves in courts, based on their capacity for sentential treatment. Legal scholar Saskia Stucki sees the possibility of a change in the law. Ecuador was the first country to grant nature its own rights in its constitution.

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