Animal ethics and animal law / edited by Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Linzey, Andrew, editor.

Linzey, Clair, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal rights.

Animal welfare--Law and legislation.

Animal welfare.

Physical Description:

ix, 316 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2022]

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : law, ethics, and the special status of animals by Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey

John Philoponus's presentation of animal rationality and the law by Oliver B. Langworthy

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

The charitable status of English antivivisection : how it was lost and could be regained by A. W. H. Bates

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

Bringing animal cruelty investigation into mainstream law enforcement in the United States by Randall Lockwood / from ethics into law by David Favre

From morally relevant features to relevant legal protection : a critique of the legal concept of animals as "property" by Frances M. C. Robinson

The nonhuman rights project's struggles to gain legal rights for nonhuman animals by Steven M. Wise

Animals as quasi-property/persons by Angela Fernandez

Housing rights and forever homes : reforms to make our cities more livable for our companion animals and ourselves by Solana Joy Phillips

A legal critique of the putative educational value of zoos by Alice Collinson

Our costly obsession : animal welfare, plastic pollution, and new directions for change by Mariah Rayfield Beck

Why anti-cruelty laws are not enough by Matthew J. Webber

The European Union : make animal law work

the direct effect principle in EU Law as an instrument for improving animal welfare by Lena Hehemann

US and New Zealand : farmed animals and the rule of law by Danielle Duffield

Africa : crimes against nonhumanity? The Case of the African Elephant by Ruaidhrí D. Wilson

India : Whither Bovinity? Hindu Dharma, the Indian State, and conflicting moral perspectives over cow protection by Kenneth Valpey

United Kingdom and Ireland : Animal Law compared by Maureen O'Sullivan and Stephanie O'Flynn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Animal ethics and animal law

ISBN:

9781666924145

1666924148

OCLC:

1345242700