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Daniela Berti,CNRS, CEH -A tale of two battles:Arguing Legal Personhood to Animals in the USA and India
Inthis paper, I focus on how the issue of consideringanimals as legalpersons has been argued in court by theNon-Human Rights Projectled bySteven Wise in the UnitedStates and how this project was recently adoptedandreinterpreted by an animal rights organization in India inpreparation fortheir own court battle. I will also show how, in turn, Indian cases raising the question of the legal personhood of animals and rivers have been used by Wise as precedents to argue his case in court. The comparison will thusraise the question of how legalideas and strategiesregarding so-called "rights of nature" travelaround theworld, giving rise to reciprocal appropriations and possibleidealizations.
Carolina Angel-Botero,University of Los Andes, Bogota -The making of a Species in the Judicial Context:the Case of “Chucho” the Bear (Colombia)
In this presentation I draw a parallel between specimen collection techniques in biological sciences, with the ways judges address animals in the courtroom. I focus on the case of the bear “Chucho” handled by the Constitutional Court of Colombia, to reflect on the conditions in which this animal is allowed to “speak”. For this analysis I use the Court's decision, my observations during the public hearing convened in 2019 in which different experts took part, as well as the media coverage that was given to the case. In my discussion, I raise the importance of paying attention to the ways in which subjects are produced, since the way it is done nowadays takes us away from a claim towards a multispecies ethic.
Discussion:Vincent Chapaux, MSH/CDI, U. Libre de Bruxelles
Responsables scientifiques :Sandrine Revet, Sciences Po-CERI,Daniela Berti, CNRS / Centre d’études himalayennes,Vanessa Manceron, CNRS / LESC,Vincent Chapaux, Université libre de Bruxelles.
