Animal Law: Books

Excerpt from description: "The Handbook intends to be a comprehensive reference work that authoritatively establishes the new field of Global Animal Law, maps it, identifies relevant legal issues, and forms a platform for further legal research." Anticipated useful feature: This book will include the section "Country Reports" discussing laws & regulations protecting animals in a number of jurisdictions. BLS Library will acquire this book.

Contents: International law research on animal law: research strategies and resources -- Researching the protection of animals in areas of armed conflict / Susan Gualtier -- Animal agriculture legal research in the European union and the United States / Deborah Heller -- Researching the legal framework for companion animals in a global context / Jean M. Wenger -- US legal research on animal law: research strategies and resources -- Researching marine mammal protection in the United States / Shay Elbaum -- Animals in entertainment law / Grace Lo -- Soring: a sore subject for equestrians / Katherine Siler -- Foreign law research on animal law: research strategies and resources -- Legal research on bullfighting in Europe and Latin America / Melissa Abernathy -- Korean animal protection law / Jootaek Lee -- African law on animal rights: trophy hunting / Kerry Lohmeier -- Whaling in Iceland and the Faroe Islands: history and legal resources / Liv Mostad-Jensen -- Animal welfare legal research in Australia and New Zealand / Sarah Reis -- Researching Chinese animal law / Alex Zhang.

Contents: Introduction -- Defining "animal" -- Criminal law -- Torts -- Remedies for harm done to animals -- Contracts -- State and local regulation of animal ownership -- Wills and trusts -- Standing -- Selected federal wildlife laws -- Farmed animals -- Animals in research -- Hunting, trapping, and fishing -- Animal activism -- International animal law.

Animal law: a significant journey / Barbara J. Gislason -- Joan E. Schaffner, Julie I. Fershtman -- Negligence and tort law / Julie I. Fershtman -- Ownership, custody, and keeping of animals / Stacy L. Kelly -- Veterinary malpractice / Gregory M. Dennis -- Animal-related contract and sales disputes / Julie I. Fershtman -- Disabled, service animals, and the law / Gary C. Norman -- Animal insurance litigation / Julie I. Fershtman -- Legal issues involving animal associations and individuals helping animals / Zandra Anderson -- Remedies in animal-related litigation / Joan E. Schaffner -- Criminal law / Dana M. Campbell, Pamela D. Frasch -- Expert witness / Katherine C. Bloomquist -- Practical considerations for attorneys handling animal law cases / Julie I. Fershtman -- Appendices.

Profs. Fasel and Butler based this book on the Animal Rights Law course that they teach at the University of Cambridge. The book begins by providing an overview of anti-cruelty and animal welfare laws. The book then discusses progress made toward granting basic rights and personhood to animals. It includes examples from 30+ legal systems.

Contents: Valery Giroux, Angie Pepper, and Kristin Voigt -- The ethics of animal shelters: guidelines and recommendations -- The value of death for animals: an overview / Nicolas Delon -- Caring in non-ideal conditions: animal rescue organizations and morally justified killing / Angie Pepper -- Decision-making under non-ideal circumstances: establishing triage protocols for animal shelters / Angela K. Martin -- What if they were humans? non-ideal theory in the shelter / Francois Jaquet -- Being popular and being just: how animal protection organizations can be both / Agnes Tam and Will Kymlicka -- Companion animal adoption in shelters: how "open" should it be? / Valery Giroux and Kristin Voigt -- Transformative animal protection / Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka.

Summary: This book introduces the various aspects of international farm animal protection and wildlife conservation through the lenses of food safety and environmental protection law. Bite-sized chapters focus on a wide range of topics from agrobiodiversity, fishing, and aquaculture to pollinators and pesticides, soil management, industrial animal production, and transportation, as well as international food trade. Animal welfare and biodiversity conservation sit at the core of the selected chapters, each one providing real-world examples to make the complex field easy to understand. Current developments including food safety modernization, blockchain, and COVID-19 considerations are addressed head-on. Farm Animal Welfare Law provides a primer for law school courses and masters' programs, for practitioners, advocates, and animal enthusiasts alike. Through its emphasis on sustainable food production, this book offers a cutting-edge selection of evolving topics at the heart of the pertinent discourse.

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Page iii of this book states that global animal law "does not sufficiently engage views from the Global South, as well as from Indigenous and other marginalised communities." This book describes "a new, intersectional second wave of animal ethics."

Excerpts from article (below) about this Springer Link open access ebook: "This book brings together the seemingly disparate discourses of human and animal rights, and looks at emerging animal rights as new human rights." "Moreover, this book proposes the novel One Rights approach as a new (post-)human rights paradigm for the Anthropocene."

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Excerpt from this Cambridge University Press open access ebook: "The dominant approach to human-animal relations is governed by an unjust imbalance of power that subordinates or ignores the interest nonhumans have in freedom. In this volume [Profs.] Lori Gruen and Justin Marceau invite experts to provide insights into the complicated intersection of issues that arise in thinking about animal law, violence, mass incarceration, and social change."

Excerpt from description of this open access Taylor & Francis ebook: "Using Norway as a case study, this book examines the dramatic changes in meat production and consumption over the last 150 years." It also discusses cultural consequences of such changes.

Excerpt from description of this open access Taylor & Francis ebook: "This Handbook presents a much-needed and comprehensive exploration of the rapidly growing fields of animal welfare and law." Part VI (Animal Ethics and Law) includes the highly useful overview: Ch. 33: Key Animal Law in the United States by Prof. Matthew Liebman (former director of litigation for the Animal Legal Defense Fund). Ch. 33: Discusses animals’ current legal status as property under U.S. federal/state law & animal protection movement’s strategies to try to transform animals’ legal status.

Discusses how human use of non-human animals contributes to pandemics, climate change & other human-caused global problems. Argues “we have a moral responsibility to include animals in health and environmental advocacy and policy.” Adapts/extends discussions of One Health & the Green New Deal.

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Provides many recommendations for change in Ch. 8: New Legislation for the Animals + in Ch. 10 Private Actions Concerning Ownership of Animals.

Chapter 5: Discusses why the prohibition on forced labor & the right to choose one’s work are essential to animals + how to implement these rights.

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Excerpt from book's Introduction, pp. 1-2: Argues “if you think that animals matter morally, then you are committed to being a vegan.” Excerpt from book's Introduction, p. 5: Asserts that “quasi-personhood does not work; the property status of animals means that animals are nothing more than things.”

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Excerpt from book's description: This source "examines trade and trafficking in endangered species and how the trade increasingly puts large numbers of nonhuman species at risk." It discusses empirical research findings from Norway and Colombia. It also analyzes the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (1973 March 3), EU regulations re. protection of wild flora/fauna & an EU action plan.

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Excerpt from book's introduction, p. 5: Offers “a novel and systematic method to define extraterritorial jurisdiction, elucidate[s] the circumstances under which resorting to extraterritorial jurisdiction is justified, and explain[s] how states can succeed at using their jurisdictional powers to protect animals within and across borders without endangering international relations or oppressing minority groups.”

Excerpts from description of this ebook: Prof. Favre "advocates an ethic of respectful use of animals, which finds it acceptable for humans to use animals within limited boundaries." "The author suggests the creation of a new legal category, living property, which would enhance the status of animals in the legal system." In catalog record for this book, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - (EBSCO). Unlimited user access. (Off-campus use: requires proxy.)