Nonhuman Rights Project

Justice Welch’s dissent becomes the fourth state high-court opinion recognizing the NhRP’s arguments have merit. 

In July 2022, after the New York Court of Appeals issued its decision in Happy’s case, I wrote about the importance of now-Chief Judge Rowan Wilson’s ...

The following statement is attributable to Jake Davis, Senior Staff Attorney at the Nonhuman Rights Project and lead counsel in the Michigan chimpanzee case, regarding NhRP’s Motion for Reconsideration.

Today, the Nonhuman Rights Project filed a motion asking the Michigan Supreme Court to reconsider its

Historic Appeal Challenges the Legality of Mari and Vaigai’s Continued Confinement at the Honolulu Zoo

August 4, 2026, Honolulu — The Hawaiʻi Supreme Court has scheduled oral argument for November 9, 2026, in the Nonhuman Rights Project’s (NhRP) l...

Happy’s legacy lives on and the fight for justice continues for elephants everywhere.

The Nonhuman Rights Project is celebrating this World Elephant Month in honor of Happy, the elephant whose groundbreaking legal case transformed the conversation about the rights of captive elephants. Happy died in May of this year, never having experienced the freedom she so deeply d...