Animal Rights Law
- Textbook
Animal Rights Law
- Textbook
Available for purchase via Bloomsbury etextbooks on publication date
Description
Do animals have legal rights? This pioneering book tells readers everything they need to know about animal rights law.
Using straightforward examples from over 30 legal systems from both the civil and common law traditions, and based on a popular course taught by the authors at the University of Cambridge, the book takes the reader from the earliest anti-cruelty laws to modern animal welfare laws, to recent attempts to grant basic rights and personhood to animals. To help readers understand this legal evolution, it explains the ethics, legal theory, and social issues behind animal rights and connected topics such as property, subjecthood, dignity, and human rights. The new edition, fully updated throughout, contains a new chapter on rights of nature.
The book's companion website (bloomsbury.pub/animal-rights-law) provides access to briefs on the latest developments in this fast-changing area, and gives readers the tools to investigate their own legal systems with a list of key references to the latest cases, legislation, and jurisdiction-specific bibliographic references.
Rich in exercises and study aids, this easy-to-use introduction is a prime resource for law students and for anyone else who wants to understand how animals can be protected by the law.
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Table of Contents
1. The Current Legal Status of Animals
2. Welfarism vs Abolitionism, a Dichotomy?
3. Philosophical Foundations of Animal Rights
4. The Legal Theory of Animal Rights
5. Animal Rights and Human Rights
6. Animal Rights and Rights of Nature
7. Animal Rights in Litigation
8. Animal Rights in Legislation
9. Animal Rights as a Social Justice Movement
Conclusion
Product details
| Published | 25 Mar 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 2nd |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 9781509990405 |
| Imprint | Hart Publishing |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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