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Habeas For Homo Troglodytes, Aram Hauslaib Apr 2016

Habeas For Homo Troglodytes, Aram Hauslaib

GGU Law Review Blog

The chimpanzee is the human’s closest living relative. In fact, chimps are closer to humans than to gorillas or orangutans. Given this, there are those who propose chimpanzees be reclassified to the human genus, Homo, giving them the scientific name Homo troglodytes. The change in the classification could prove critical, as the rights held by men and women today have repeatedly hinged on how they were defined.


Judge Halts End-Of-Life Decision-Making For Nursing Home Patients, Bob Egelko Feb 2016

Judge Halts End-Of-Life Decision-Making For Nursing Home Patients, Bob Egelko

Interviews

An Alameda County judge has ordered state health officials to stop allowing doctors at nursing homes to administer psychiatric drugs or make end-of-life decisions for patients the doctors consider mentally incompetent. An interview with Professor Mort Cohen