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| Title |
Author |
Citation | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Companion Animals: An Examination of Their Legal Classification in Italy and the Impact on their Welfare | Annamaria Passantino | 4 Journal of Animal Law 59 (2008) |
Italy's State-Regions Agreement on Companion Animal Welfare and Pet Therapy introduced important new measures aimed at reducing the numbers of stray animals, such as the use of microchips for an official dog identification system and the creation of a computerised data bank. The Author, after having analyzed the legal status of animals under the current system and discussed the idea of extending legal personhood to such animals, considers the law for the current valuation of companion animals. Finally, the Author promotes the idea that there is a legal/rational basis for changing the way that companion animals should be valued by the legal system (such as Agreement) and recommends the adoption of principles/guidelines for the care of pet evaluate these aspects of the Agreement. |
| Making the Change, One Conservative at a Time: A Review of Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy by Matthew Scully | Shennie Patel | 9 Animal L. 299 (2003) | This article provides a review of the book, Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy, by Matthew Scully. |
| Detailed Discussion of European Animal Welfare Laws 2003 to Present: Explaining the Downturn | Nicholas K. Pedersen | The Animal Legal and Historical Center |
After a flurry of legislative activity in the 1990s, EU animal welfare initiatives have stagnated of late. This article seeks to explain why, by pointing to factors such as changing EU membership, implementation costs, and fallout from extremist attacks. After providing an overview of recent animal welfare legislation, the paper discusses the slowdown and its causes, and then ventures some educated guesses about what can be expected on the European animal welfare front in coming years. |
| PASSING THE BATON: HOW TEAMWORK AND UNBRIDLED OPTIMISM CREATED LEWIS & CLARK’S ANIMAL LAW PROGRAM | Nancy Perry | 18 Animal L. 175 (2012) |
This article contains the introductory remarks for Volume 18, part 2. |
| Anti-Speciesism: The Appropriation and Misrepresentation of Animal Rights in Joan Dunayers Speciesism (Abridged) | Jeff Perz | 2 Journal of Animal Law 49 (2006) |
Joan Dunayer's Speciesism appropriates and misrepresents the animal rights theory of Gary L. Francione. Dunayer's objections to Francione's highly qualified suggestion that a prohibition against confining hens to battery cages could be consistent with animal rights theory are specious. If the exploitation of non-human animals is to be completely abolished, those who bring about this result will have necessary been informed by a consistent, well-supported theoretical framework. |
| Forgotten Victims of War: Animals and the International Law of Armed Conflict | Saba Pipia | 28 Animal L. 175 (2022) | The present article analyses the protection of animals in times of armed conflict. The primary objective of this article is to explore the relationship between animal law and international humanitarian law and to find out to what extent rules of animal welfare law can be applied during armed conflict and how international humanitarian law can protect animals. For this purpose, the article firstly provides an overview of legal scholarship, as well as a summary of existing international humanitarian law norms protecting animals. The article also discusses if existing models of protection of non-human victims of war, such as natural environment and cultural heritage, analogously, can be applied to include animals under the protection of international humanitarian law. Furthermore, possible scenarios of animal victimhood during wars are outlined and finally, the article offers several practical suggestions on how animal welfare law can become part of the international law of armed conflict. |
| Human-Centered Environmental Values Versus Nature-Centric Environmental Values: Is This the Question? | Zygmunt J.B. Plater | 3 Mich. J. Envtl & Admin. L. 273 (2014) |
(c) 2014 Zygmunt J.B. Plater. Originally published in Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law; reprinted with permission. |
| Proposal for the Introduction of the Protection of Animals in the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic | Portugal Center for Animal Law and Ethics | Center for Animal Law and Ethics, Portugal |
This article sets our the argument for adding to the Constitution of Portugal a provision for the Protection of Animals. |
| Conference Summary: "The Moral and Legal Status of Non-Human Animals" | Portugal Center for Animal Law and Ethics | Center for Animal Law and Ethics, Portugal |
The document is a summary of each speaker's presentation at a Conference held at Lisbon University Law School. |
| The Day May Come: Legal Rights for Animals | Tom Regan | 10 Animal L. 11 (2004) |
This article examines the main arguments used for denying moral rights to nonhuman animals, the rights to life and bodily integrity in particular. Because these arguments are deficient, animals should not be denied legal rights on the basis of their presumed moral inferiority to humans. |