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Book SynopsisAnimal 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. Specifically, this collection focuses on pressing moral issues and how law can protect animals from cruelty and abuse. A project of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, the book is edited by the Oxford Centre’s directors, Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey, and features contributions from many of its fellows. Divided into three sections, the work explores historical perspectives and ethical–legal issues such as “personhood” and “property” before focusing on five practical case studies. The volume introduces readers to the interweaving between these subjects and should act as a spur to further interdisciplinary work.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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
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