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| Title |
Author |
Citation | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| China Case Studies: 5. Water Filled Meat | Song Wei | Animal Legal and Historical Web Center |
A case study from China about the practice of adding water to animals before they are sold, to increase weight. |
| China Case Studies: 1. Intentional Cruelty to Zoo Bears | Song Wei | Animal Legal and Historical Web Center |
A short case study of what happened when an individual harmed several bears at a public zoo in China. |
| China Case Studies: 3. Bear Bile from Caged Moon Bears | Song Wei | Animal Legal and Historical Web Center |
This is a short case study about the issue of using caged bears to extract bile in China. |
| EFFECTIVE VOIR DIRE IN ANIMAL CASES | Larry Weiss | 2 Animal L. 187 (1996) | This article was adapted from remarks from Larry Weiss at a symposium held by the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund of Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College on September 23, 1995 regarding issues affecting domestic and captive animals. |
| EXPANSION OF THE FLORIDA ANIMAL ANTI-CRUELTY STATUTE TO BETTER SERVE ANIMALS | Laura Wesolowski | Animal Legal & Historical Center | This paper will focus on animal use in transient, traveling exhibitions that do not have educational components. By nature, circuses, carnivals, and other traveling shows require the animals that are property to travel regularly and to perform for the public regularly. Researchers have found that this lifestyle is problematic for animals, in general, due to the living and traveling conditions that animals are subjected to as well as the pressures of performance of unnatural acts in unnatural environments. |
| Detailed Discussion of Michigan Anti-animal Cruelty Law | Sarah J. Williams | Animal Legal and Historical Center |
This article details Michigan's animal anti-cruelty law. Included in the discussion is an examination of the intentional infliction of pain and suffering law, the duty to provide care law, the animal anti-fighting provision, among other topics. The article also examines the relevant constitutional provisions such as notice requirements, search and seizure law, and the "plain view" exception. |
| Law Review - Cruelty - Cosmetics | DELCIANNA J. WINDERS | 81 NYU L REV 254 | "Cruelty-free" labeling claims are presently unregulated, resulting in market failure. Consumers make purchasing decisions with incomplete and misleading information and are therefore unable to encourage manufacturers to follow consumer preferences and alter their animal testing practices. Building on scholarship in reflexive law, this Note outlines a strategy for remedying the proliferation of misleading "cruelty-free" claims through standardization. Winders argues that standardization can most effectively and efficiently be achieved through a voluntary third-party certification program that sets a labeling claims, buttressed by traditional false advertising law. |
| How Can I Report Animal Abuse Shown on Social Media? | Rebecca F. Wisch | Animal Legal & Historical Center | This FAQ discusses the issue of reporting animal cruelty witnessed on a social media website. |
| How to Search for Your Municipality's Animal-Related Ordinances | Rebecca F. Wisch | Animal Legal & Historical Center |
This document briefly explains how one may search for electronic versions of his or her municipality's animal control ordinances over the Interent. |
| FAQ: Dogs Transported in Pickup Truck Beds | Rebecca F. Wisch | Animal Legal & Historical Center | This FAQ explores the few states that address dogs or other animals riding unsecured in the back of pickup trucks. |