Reading and Media Resources

Images taken by a photojournalist in over 20 countries depicting animals held in zoos and aquaria. With contributions from Virginia McKenna, Lori Gruen, and Ron Kagan.

Experts delve into the complex intersection of animal law, violence, mass incarceration, and social change in this book, providing valuable insights into these multifaceted issues.

A ‘trans-species carceral geography’of industrialized violence, discussing, e.g., the prison death row/execution chamber and the animal slaughterhouse; sites of laboratory testing of pharmaceutical...

A short book in which thirteen philosophers write in support of the Nonhuman Rights Project’s efforts to have a court recognize specific individual chimpanzees as legal persons and entitled to a writ...

Tells the story of the industry growing up around the quest to create and commercialize meat derived from cell cultures rather than from animals. 

Future generations, wildlife, and natural resources identify the common vulnerabilities of “the voiceless" and show how the law can evolve to protect their interests more effectively by incorporating...

A collection of essays exploring the interconnections between the oppression of Indigenous people and non-human animals.

A firsthand account of a social psychologist’s somewhat accidental introduction to the world of cat rescue, the trap-neuter-return method of feral cat management and the often hidden world of feral...

Analysis by two experts in agricultural economics of the costs of improving animal welfare in modern farming.

Examines the human-animal relationship and the laws designed to protect it and calls for consideration of why some harms to animals are defined as criminal, others as abusive but not criminal and...