Timeline of the Nonhuman Rights Project

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1995 "In 1995, I published an article in Lewis and Clark Law School’s inaugural issue of “Animal Law.” The following year, I created the Center for the Expansion of Fundamental Rights, Inc. (CEFR), which is now the Nonhuman Rights Project, Inc., with Jane Goodall as a board member."[1]
2000 "In the last year of the 20th Century, my book Rattling the Cage – Toward Legal Rights for Animals appeared. During an interview about it, I was asked whether the time was ripe to file lawsuits that actually claimed legal rights for a nonhuman animal. I said, “It is not.” In response, the interviewer asked, “If not now, when?” “In about ten years,” I said."[1]
2007 NhRP is founded by Steven M. Wise as a project of the Center for the Expansion of Fundamental Rights.[1]
2012 The Center for the Expansion of Fundamental Rights officially changes its name to the Nonhuman Rights Project.
2013 NhRP commences a strategic litigation campaign demanding that courts recognize the legal personhood of great apes, cetaceans, and elephants.[2]
2013 NhRP files petitions in three trial courts in the state of New York demanding that common law writs of habeas corpus be issued on behalf of four captive chimpanzees —Tommy, Kiko, Hercules, and Leo.[3]
2014 (April) Steven M. Wise states that science proves that chimpanzees, alongside elephants, cetaceans like dolphins and whales, and African grey parrots, are among a class of nonhuman animals that exhibit high cognitive ability. Wise argues that they're self-aware, they experience pain and joy and they suffer terribly from confinement.[4]
2014 (December) The New York State Supreme Court, Apellate Division, rules in a case where NhRP, representing a chimpanzee called Tommy, calls for the court to "enlarge the common-law definition of 'person' in order to afford legal rights to an animal".[5]
2014 (Late year) NhRP president Steven M. Wise and Executive Director Natalie Prosin announce in the Global Journal of Animal Law that the Nonhuman Rights Project would be expanding its work into other countries, beginning in Switzerland, Argentina, England, Spain, Portugal, and Australia..[6]
2015 NhRP petitions the Supreme Court of New York State for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of two chimpanzees, Hercules and Leo, in an attempt to secure their release from the State University of New York to a sanctuary in Florida.[7] In April, NhRP is granted an order to show cause and writ of habeas corpus on behald of the two chimpanzees.[8]
2018 (March) NhRP's chimpanzee clients Hercules and Leo are finally free of the New Iberia Research Center, demonstrating the positive impact of the worldwide media attention and public pressure created by NhRP's litigation.[9]
2018 (May) As part of NhRP's international outreach, President Steven M. Wise and NhRP Executive Director Kevin Schneider visit Hong Kong, Malaysia, and India to discuss the NhRP’s work and connect with others interested in seeking actual legal rights for nonhuman animals in their respective countries.[10]
2018 (May) NhRP files a second habeas corpus petition in Connecticut on behalf of NhRP's elephant clients Beulah, Karen, and Minnie to avoid any undue delay in securing their liberty while the appellate process is proceeding on the rejection of NhRP's first habeas corpus petition on their behalf.[9]
2018 (February) NhRP publishes the results of a nationally representative survey conducted with Professor Garrett Broad of Fordham University. The survey indicates that nearly half of Americans say they support legal rights for nonhuman animals.[9]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "2013 is here, and we are ready!". NhRP Website. Nonhuman Rights Project. January 16, 2013. Archived from the original on October 14, 2013. Retrieved October 15, 2018. 
  2. The Palgrave Handbook of Practical Animal Ethics (Andrew Linzey, Clair Linzey ed.). 
  3. "Nonhuman Rights Project". britannica.com. Retrieved 15 October 2018. 
  4. "Should Animals Have The Same Rights As People?". wnycstudios.org. Retrieved 16 October 2018. 
  5. Legal Personhood: Animals, Artificial Intelligence and the Unborn (Visa A.J. Kurki, Tomasz Pietrzykowski ed.). 
  6. "The Nonhuman Rights Project: Coming to a Country Near You" (PDF). Steven Wise, Natalie Prosin. Global Journal of Animal Law. December 2014. Retrieved 16 October 2018. 
  7. Rees, Paul A. The Laws Protecting Animals and Ecosystems. 
  8. Norm Antipreneurs and the Politics of Resistance to Global Normative Change (Alan Bloomfield, Shirley V. Scott ed.). 
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 "Upholding Fundamental Values and Principles of Justice". nonhumanrights.org. Retrieved 16 October 2018. 
  10. "The NhRP in Hong Kong, Malaysia, and India". nonhumanrights.org. Retrieved 16 October 2018.