Law and Policy

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.

A collection of writings from diverse academics from across the world, including pieces dealing with multiculturalism; group rights and the limits of tolerance; ethnocentrism and animals; racism and discrimination; and non-Western alternatives to animal rights and welfare. 

A deep dive into one of the thorniest questions in contemporary animal activism: What are the differences, and similarities, between violent animal exploitation and abortion of human fetuses and how should that affect the laws regulating both? The authors tackle these questions from both a theoretical and strategic vantage point.

Argues for a 'sentientist cosmopolitan democracy': a global political system made up of overlapping local, national, regional and global communities comprised of human and non-human members who exist within shared 'communities of fate.' Suggests the use of dedicated representatives of non-human animals whose job should be to translate the interests of animals into deliberations.

Addresses the animal protection issues created by the dispersal of production facilities in animal use industries across territories of multiple states, creating and exacerbating regulatory gaps and creating the conditions for a race to the bottom. Argues that extraterritorial jurisdiction must respond to these developments, counters possible objections, and describes how to improve animal law in tandem.

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 of habeas corpus, thereby releasing them from confinement and sent to sanctuary. 

Documentary on animal activists who, based on a campaign known as “Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty,” found themselves targeted as terrorists by the United States government.

Examines the available science of cognition regarding various species in order to explore the legal and policy question of who is entitled to rights under the law

Documentary about the undercover investigation of the Wiles Hog Farm by the Humane Farming Association, and the resulting trial on charges of cruelty to animals.

This brief monograph, though dated, is still relevant in describing the ways in which the welfare of farmed animals has been removed as a subject of legal regulation in the United States. Also in Law and Policy