São Paulo, Brazil: non-human beings are not commodities, but holders of subjective rights. In general this is the main argument advocated and demonstrated by Alfredo Domingues Migliore in the book "Legal Personality of the Great Apes." The book is the result of years of study and research consolidated on the doctoral thesis of the lawyer, who is a professor and member of the Council on Bioethics, Biotechnology and Biolaw the OAB-SP.

Migliore underlies his thesis on juridical personality of the great apes in natural law and the theory of subjective rights. And all this becomes stronger and is more easily demonstrated with the support of solid arguments leading expert on the subject today, including biologists, primatologists, lawyers, philosophers and scientists.

The book approaches the subject in a very comprehensive and is expected to be one more tool for judges and other professionals in the field of law to express their views on the Basic Rights of Great Apes more consciously. And, clearly, it is a work of great support to the struggle for basic rights of great apes held for more than a decade by the GAP Project, which readily supported the edition of the book when learned about Migliore’s work.

The book "Legal Personality of the Great Apes" will be released on March 12 in Sao Paulo (more information in the call above, in Portuguese). By bow the book ins only available in Portuguese.