MICHAELA HAAS: Happy has been the “client” of the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) since 2018. This July, its founder, Steven M. Wise, filed a 14,000-word brief with New York’s highest court. In the habeas corpus case, NhRP is “demanding the right to bodily liberty of an elephant named Happy held alone in captivity in the … Continue reading GETTING PERSONAL: The movement to give ‘personhood’ rights to animals