Reading and Media Resources

A collection of essays on the role nonhuman animals played in the Civil War and how it impacted them, including horses, mules, pigs, and dogs.

This collection, while putting animals and their welfare and rights at the center of the analysis, examines the questions inherent in putting animals to work, including whether animal labor is...

Examines how animals speak to each other and to humans, from chimpanzees who learn sign language to dogs who parse the meaning of other dogs' growls, and considers the implications for understanding...

A casebook for use in law school classes, framed according to traditional legal headings such as tort, contract, criminal and constitutional law.

Provides a selection of animal law cases, with annotation, for use in non-animal law related law classes, including contracts, criminal law, torts, property, constitutional law, commercial law, wills...

Designed as a text for classes in animal law and policy, this book presents problems, case studies and jurisprudential doctrine relevant to issues in animal law and policy. Favre is also the author of...

The author contends that a system of ethics that is based in reason rather than in anthropocentric mythologies must include attention to animals.

The classic and groundbreaking work applying utilitarian principles to the questions of the ethical treatment of animals. Written for a mainstream audience, this work is an indispensable starting...

Placing language at the center of philosophical analysis, and focusing on public concern for animals, this work shifts the debate about animal welfare and rights to the vocabulary people use to...

Using the concept of guardianship for cognitively impaired human beings, broadens the traditional focus of animal rights beyond basic rights to life and bodily integrity to rights to the natural areas...