Good Law | Bad Law

Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast, Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by law professor and advocate, Matthew Liebman, of the University of San Francisco, to discuss animal rights and the notion of animal law.   Who is a “rights holder” under the law? In today’s episode, Aaron and Matthew explore this idea as they delve into the arguments about animal rights and the law and how the law is applied to nonhuman animals. In discussing strategic impact litigation, the question of property vs. life, compassion, and animal ethics, Matthew and Aaron talk about the animal law movement and what our obligations to animals are. Matthew touches on a groundbreaking case he is currently involved with, Justice v. Gwendolyn Vercher, that the Animal Legal Defense Fund filed on behalf of an 8-year-old horse named Justice. Throughout today’s conversation, Aaron and Matthew talk about the importance of animal rights, animal ethics and of making good law.    Professor Liebman joined the