What are the principle arguments advanced by the Non-Human Rights Project (NHRP) for recognition of animal personhood? 

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Case list 

Hercules & Leo, 49 Misc. 3D 746 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 2015). 

Nonhuman Rights Project, Inc v Lavery (2017) NY Slip OP 04574 [Tommy & Kiko]. 

People of the State of New York, ex rel The Nonhuman Rights Project, on behalf of Tommy v Thomas C Lavery, [2014] 124 AD 3d 148 [Tommy]. 

Somerset v Stewart (1772) 98 ER 499. 

THE NONHUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT, INC. on behalf of HAPPY, Petitioner, v. JAMES J. BREHENY, in his official capacity as Executive Vice President and General Director of Zoos and Aquariums of the Wildlife Conservation Society and Director of the Bronx Zoo, and WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY (Appellate Case No. 2020-02581) 

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