Law and Protest at the Periphery of Democracy - Evaluating Legal Responses to Animal Activism and Undercover Footage

When animal rights activists enter farms or laboratories, they pose particular challenges for the law. How can the ethical motives of the activists be adequately taken into account in the legal assessment without giving them carte blanche for otherwise unlawful behaviour? This dissertation analyses, evaluates and compares the legislation and jurisprudence in Germany and other jurisdictions, particularly in the United States. In so doing, it incorporates the findings and methods of political theory alongside the legal assessment. The principles developed lay a foundation for a nuanced legal assessment of protest movements and methods on the limits of legality.

Product details

• Authors: Katharina Braun
• Publisher: Nomos
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.12.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9783756014583
• ISBN: 978-3-7560-1458-3
• No. of pages: 395
• Weight: 650 g
• Series: Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Tierschutz, Politische Philosophie, Tiere und Gesellschaft, Rechtsvergleichung, NG-Rabatt, Umweltschützer, ziviler Ungehorsam, Tierrecht, Rechtsvergleich, Civil Disobedience, Demokratietheorie, Whistleblowing, Animal law, Deliberative Demokratie, comparative law, Animal Studies, Democratic Theory, Deliberative Democracy, Tierschutzaktivisten, Tierbefreier, Critical Legal Theory, Green Activism, Normative Rekonstruktion