Empirical animal law : testing the assumptions of a movement / Justin Marceau, David A. Dana, Janice Nadler

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marceau, Justin, author.

Dana, David, author.

Nadler, Janice, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal welfare--Law and legislation.

Animal welfare.

Animal welfare--Moral and ethical aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Summary:

"Empirical Animal Law challenges long-held assumptions about which animal law reforms help or harm animals. Drawing on original empirical studies and a broad interdisciplinary body of research, the book tests whether familiar tools of advocacy, such as incremental reforms, criminal prosecutions, litigation, and protest, really reduce animal suffering. Moving beyond moral intuition and ideology, the book reveals how people perceive animal harm, which messages and messengers persuade, and when well-intentioned strategies may backfire. With chapters on factory-farming reforms, criminal punishment, litigation strategy, protest backlash, and moral framing, Empirical Animal Law offers the first comprehensive, data-driven account of how animal law operates in practice and calls for a new empirically informed movement"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Do incremental welfare reforms pave the way for rights?

Meat paradox : assumptions about animal sentience and intelligence

Carceral animal law overview

Race, class, and the criminal prosecution of animal crimes

Revisiting the assumption that carceral animal law is helpful

Carceral animal law as affirmatively harming animal protection efforts

The role of protest in the animal welfare and rights movement

Losing in court as an animal movement strategy : an overview

Empirically studying winning by losing in litigation

Moral framing of animal protection messages

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed August 24, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Marceau, Justin Empirical animal law

ISBN:

9781009850438

1009850431

OCLC:

1602525713

Publisher Number:

CIPO000401519

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license