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Animals In The Courtroom, Challie Facemire, Clayton Kinsey
Animals In The Courtroom, Challie Facemire, Clayton Kinsey
Journal of Law and Policy
Law centers on the experience of the human species. Yet, emerging scholarly and public conversations advocate for bringing animals into spaces once assumed to be human, a growing field known as animal studies. This Article is the first to experiment with how to integrate the more-than-human experience into the courtroom. It specifically reimagines canonical legal cases from the perspective of the animals involved in them. Through the perspective of the animals at issue, it examines cases in which animal interests were considered by human advocates and decided by human judges. This novel technique of de-centering the human requires developing a …