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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 LinzeyPart I: Historical Perspectives
Chapter :1 John Philoponus's Presentation of Animal Rationality and the Law
By Oliver B. LangworthyChapter 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 HedermanChapter 3: The Charitable Status of English Antivivisection: How It Was Lost and Could Be Regained
By A. W. H. BatesChapter 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 StantonChapter 5: Bringing Animal Cruelty Investigation into Mainstream Law Enforcement in the United States
By Randall LockwoodPart II: Ethical-Legal Issues
Chapter 6 From Ethics into Law
By David FavreChapter 7: From Morally Relevant Features to Relevant Legal Protection: A Critique of the Legal Concept of Animals as "Property"
By Frances M. C. RobinsonChapter 8: The Nonhuman Rights Project's Struggles to Gain Legal Rights for Nonhuman Animals
By Steven M. WiseChapter 9: Animals as Quasi-Property/Persons
By Angela FernandezChapter 10: Housing Rights and Forever Homes: Reforms to Make Our Cities More Livable for Our Companion Animals and Ourselves
By Solana Joy PhillipsChapter 11: A Legal Critique of the Putative Educational Value of Zoos
By Alice CollinsonChapter 12: Our Costly Obsession: Animal Welfare, Plastic Pollution, and New Directions for Change
By Mariah Rayfield BeckChapter 13: Why Anti-Cruelty Laws Are Not Enough
By Matthew J. WebberPart 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 HehemannChapter 15: US and New Zealand: Farmed Animals and the Rule of Law
By Danielle DuffieldChapter 16: Africa: Crimes against Nonhumanity? The Case of the African Elephant
By Ruaidhrí D. WilsonChapter 17: India: Whither Bovinity? Hindu Dharma, the Indian State, and Conflicting Moral Perspectives over Cow Protection
By Kenneth ValpeyChapter 18: United Kingdom and Ireland: Animal Law Compared
By Maureen O'Sullivan and Stephanie O'FlynnAbout the Contributors
About the author
Andrew Linzey is director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and has been a member of the faculty of theology in the University of Oxford for twenty-eight years.
Clair Linzey is deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She is a professor of animal theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation.
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.
