Are Animals “Things”?

CMES Steering Committee member Kristen Stilt, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Director of the HLS Islamic Legal Studies Program, talks to Harvard Magazine about animals' status under the law, her survey course on the growing field of animal law, and the new Harvard Animal Law and Policy Program at HLS. "We know how law doesn’t work for animals," Stilt says, " but we have no clear idea yet about how it should."