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Animal law is a growing discipline, as is animal ethics. In this wide-ranging book, scholars from around the world address the intersections between the two. A project of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, this collection focuses on pressing moral issues and how law can protect animals from cruelty and abuse.
List of contents
Introduction: Law, Ethics, and the Special Status of Animals
By Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey
Part I: Historical Perspectives
Chapter :1 John Philoponus's Presentation of Animal Rationality and the Law
By Oliver B. Langworthy
Chapter 2: The Gallinger Bill, a Bill to Regulate Animal Experimentation in the District of Columbia: Forerunner of the 1966 Laboratory Animal Welfare Act
By Robyn Hederman
Chapter 3: The Charitable Status of English Antivivisection: How It Was Lost and Could Be Regained
By A. W. H. Bates
Chapter 4: The "Glass Walls" Theory: A History and Discussion of the Guidelines and Laws concerning Nonhuman Animals in the North American Film Industry
By Rebecca Stanton
Chapter 5: Bringing Animal Cruelty Investigation into Mainstream Law Enforcement in the United States
By Randall Lockwood
Part II: Ethical-Legal Issues
Chapter 6 From Ethics into Law
By David Favre
Chapter 7: From Morally Relevant Features to Relevant Legal Protection: A Critique of the Legal Concept of Animals as "Property"
By Frances M. C. Robinson
Chapter 8: The Nonhuman Rights Project's Struggles to Gain Legal Rights for Nonhuman Animals
By Steven M. Wise
Chapter 9: Animals as Quasi-Property/Persons
By Angela Fernandez
Chapter 10: Housing Rights and Forever Homes: Reforms to Make Our Cities More Livable for Our Companion Animals and Ourselves
By Solana Joy Phillips
Chapter 11: A Legal Critique of the Putative Educational Value of Zoos
By Alice Collinson
Chapter 12: Our Costly Obsession: Animal Welfare, Plastic Pollution, and New Directions for Change
By Mariah Rayfield Beck
Chapter 13: Why Anti-Cruelty Laws Are Not Enough
By Matthew J. Webber
Part III: Case Studies
Chapter 14: The European Union: Make Animal Law Work-The Direct Effect Principle in EU Law as an Instrument for Improving Animal Welfare
By Lena Hehemann
Chapter 15: US and New Zealand: Farmed Animals and the Rule of Law
By Danielle Duffield
Chapter 16: Africa: Crimes against Nonhumanity? The Case of the African Elephant
By Ruaidhrí D. Wilson
Chapter 17: India: Whither Bovinity? Hindu Dharma, the Indian State, and Conflicting Moral Perspectives over Cow Protection
By Kenneth Valpey
Chapter 18: United Kingdom and Ireland: Animal Law Compared
By Maureen O'Sullivan and Stephanie O'Flynn
About the Contributors
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Edited by Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey - Contributions by A. W. H. Bates; Mariah Rayfield Beck; Alice Collinson; Danielle Duffield; David Favre; Angela Fernandez; Robyn Hederman; Lena Hehemann; Oliver Langworthy; Randall Lockwood; Stephanie O'Flynn; Mau
Summary
Animal law is a growing discipline, as is animal ethics. In this wide-ranging book, scholars from around the world address the intersections between the two. A project of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, this collection focuses on pressing moral issues and how law can protect animals from cruelty and abuse.
