This encyclopedia entry focuses on provisions within various constitutions that recognize the significance of the experiences of animals, including references to the welfare or dignity of individual animals, the protection of animals, and compassion for or cruelty toward animals. [In Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law]
A concise summary of how the law regulates human uses and interactions with animals, cutting across numerous substantive areas of law and providing an analysis of the consideration and protection of animals’ interests within these legal regimes.
Considers the ramifications of the creation of legal obstacles to counter the advances of both environmental and animal activism.
A political scientist examines the structure of animal protection legislation with an eye toward how the law treats different types of animals, particularly the tendency to favor those animals who are closest to humans, and considers whether these inequities violate fundamental principles of justice.
This critique of the prevailing view within the animal protection movement regarding the need for more attention from the criminal justice system regarding crimes against animals and more severe interventions against abusers asserts that a focus on 'carceral animal law' puts the animal rights movement at odds with other social justice movements, and may be bad for humans and animals alike both by eliding systemic solutions and undermining the ethos of the animal protection movement for increased empathy and resistance to social oppression.
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 and trusts, domestic relations, environmental law, evidence, patent and tax law.
A political scientist who has written prolifically about animals argues here that our thinking about the proper way to treat animals should be rooted in concepts of justice. While acknowledging that there are many steps from where we are to where we should be in our treatment of animals, Garner argues for the concept of animal rights, including the right not suffer at the hands of humans.
A seminal work, which was followed by a number of other influential books by the same author on related subjects, examining the effect of the legal categorization of animals as property and including discussion of the history of human treatment of animals, anticruelty statutes, vivisection, the Federal Animal Welfare Act and specific legal cases that have demonstrated the law’s structural defects.
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 a number of other books about animals and their place in law and society, including Respecting Animals: A Balanced Approach to Our Relationship with Pets, Food, and Wildlife.
Political theory is the grounding for this analysis of the obligations that arise from the varied ways that animals relate to human societies and institutions. The authors assert that, since different types of animals, i.e., domesticated animals, wilderness animals and “liminal” animals, stand in different relationships to human political communities, humans bear different obligations to them, albeit that all are owed respect for basic inviolable rights.