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" Monday.

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” Monday.

Martha Nussbaum, a law and ethics professor at the University of Chicago, today received the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education for her book Cultivating Humanity: A Classical ...

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The numbers say it all: Nearly two-thirds of global mammalian biomass is currently made up of livestock, the majority raised and killed in intolerably cruel factory farms. The domesticated chicken is ...

Can academic philosophers work side by side with policymakers? Martha Nussbaum, a former Brown professor and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of ...

In Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility (Simon & Schuster, Jan.), philosopher Nussbaum makes a case for animal rights. What was wrong with previous approaches to animal rights? They’re ...

Martha Nussbaum, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School and in the philosophy department, won the 2018 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture. The prize, announced last week, comes ...

We talked to the philosopher about her recent book The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal and her thoughts on contemporary global politics. Last year, Republican Senator Josh Hawley of ...

Martha Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, appointed in Law, Philosophy, and Divinity. Her many books include *Hiding from ...

Prominent American philosopher and author Martha Nussbaum has weighed in on the controversy over European bans on the burqa and veil. France and other European countries, responding to rising ...

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