Nussbaum now wants to extend that theory to protect animal rights, which was the focus of her Tuesday lecture: “Creatures and Capabilities: A New Approach to Animal Ethics and Law.” She argued that ...

Martha Nussbaum: The first of them I ... living in a just society when the society makes it possible for them to have a minimal threshold level of 10 central capabilities that I then made a list of.

Martha C. Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago Law School, is the author, most recently, of Creating Capabilities: The Human ...

Martha Nussbaum Thinks So. By David Marchese Updated null. Share full article. 486 “To give animals recognition as persons under constitutional law would be the goal,” says the esteemed author ...

I volunteer at a farm sanctuary, where our rescued animals get to live exactly as author Martha Nussbaum would like them to, in what she calls the Capabilities Approach (“People for the ...

Law professor and philosopher Martha Nussbaum discussed the benefits of giving animals legal rights and representation in courts during a special segment of MSNBC’s "The Beat with Ari Melber ...

Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility, by Martha C. Nussbaum (Simon & Schuster, 358 pages, $28.99) F or most people, most of the time, fellow feeling toward animals comes naturally.

World-renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, will deliver the 2017 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on May 1 at the John F.

Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, appointed in the Philosophy Department and the Law School of the University of Chicago. She is the author of Justice ...

Martha Nussbaum, a former Brown professor and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, ... “If the human list (of capabilities) is a template ...