O Estatuto Jurídico das Baleias: capacidades, direitos e cultura

Rachel Nussbaum Wichert; Martha Nussbaum

doi:10.5007/2177-7055.2016v37n72p19

Authors

Rachel Nussbaum Wichert Friends of Animals - Wildlife Law Program (Denver)
Martha Nussbaum University of Chicado

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2177-7055.2016v37n72p19

Abstract

Whales, among our planet’s most majestic, mysterious, powerful, and intelligent beings, are profoundly endangered. International law has for some time attempted to protect them from extinction. Our paper addresses the legal status of whales and argues that they should be regarded as creatures with rights, not simply as commodities. Currently, international law does not recognize whales as creatures with rights. International organizations, particularly the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and its founding document, the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW), have focused on the issue of overfishing and have allowed exceptions to usual standards based both on the alleged needs of scientific research (in the case of Japan) and on the alleged claims of culture (in the case of aboriginal groups in the Arctic).

Author Biographies

Rachel Nussbaum Wichert, Friends of Animals - Wildlife Law Program (Denver)

doutora pela Cornell University em História Cultural da Europa e publicou diversos artigos nessa área. Em 2015, ela recebeu o seu J.D. da University of Washington. Atualmente realiza estágio de pós-doutorado na organização Friends of Animals, no Wildlife Law Program, em Denver. Juntamente com Martha Nussbaum, é autora de The Legal Status of Whales and Dolphins: From Bentham to the Capabilities Approach, editado por Lori Keleher e Stacy Kosko, que será publicado pela Cambridge University Press, volume em homenagem a David Crocker.

Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicado

professora de Direito e Ética na University of Chicago, alocada no Law School and the Philosophy Department. Discute o Direito dos Animais em Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership(2007). Seu livro mais recente é Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice(2013). Seu próximo livro será Anger and Forgiveness, previsto para 2016.