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Congress' Failure To Enact Animal Welfare Legislation For The Rearing Of Farm Animals: What Is Truly At Stake?, Jimena Uralde
Congress' Failure To Enact Animal Welfare Legislation For The Rearing Of Farm Animals: What Is Truly At Stake?, Jimena Uralde
University of Miami Business Law Review
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Ten Lessons Our Constitutional Experience Can Teach Us About The Puzzle Of Animal Rights: The Work Of Steven M. Wise, Laurence H. Tribe
Ten Lessons Our Constitutional Experience Can Teach Us About The Puzzle Of Animal Rights: The Work Of Steven M. Wise, Laurence H. Tribe
Animal Law Review
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Dismantling The Barriers To Legal Rights For Nonhuman Animals, Steven M. Wise
Dismantling The Barriers To Legal Rights For Nonhuman Animals, Steven M. Wise
Animal Law Review
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Crime Victims' Rights: Critical Concepts For Animal Rights, Douglas E. Beloof
Crime Victims' Rights: Critical Concepts For Animal Rights, Douglas E. Beloof
Animal Law Review
It is simultaneously intimidating and presumptuous to make observations about a movement that one is not intimately involued in. I am not an animal rights scholar. However, I am in the dignity recognition business. As a legal advocate and academic, I work to promote the dignity of human victims of crime. I have written the only casebook for law students about crime victims law, consult with Congress about crime victim law, and advise attorneys and victim organizations around the country. I also lwt·e considerable experience in taking movements and moving them into practical operations within prosecutors' offices; for example, in …
Will The Heavens Fall? De-Radicalizing The Precedent-Breaking Decision, Paul Waldau
Will The Heavens Fall? De-Radicalizing The Precedent-Breaking Decision, Paul Waldau
Animal Law Review
This article offers an extended analogy for the purpose of posing basic questions about proposals for granting legal rights to some nonhuman animals. The analogy is drawn from the precedent-breaking eighteenth century English case Somerset v. Stewart, which liberated an African slave. The article argues that one can identify features of the eighteenth century debate which illuminate features of today's debate over proposed uses of centrally important legal concepts for some nonhuman animals. Using the comparison for the limited task of highlighting the complex cultural backdrop in each situation, the article suggests that the comparison helps one see the nature …
Rebuilding The Wall, Bill Davis
Rebuilding The Wall, Bill Davis
Animal Law Review
The debate about whether nonhuman animals deserve legal rights encompasses an ever broadening range of theories and strategies. Most thinkers pushing for nonhuman animal rights reject speciesism, which they view as an often tacit foundation for their adversaries' arguments. Yet almost every current contributor to the debate-whether they favor or disfavor the extension of rights beyond the human sphere-engages in some form of intelligenceism by focusing disproportionate attention on humanlike animals. This essay submits that nonhuman animal advocates must recognize this pervasive intelligenceist bias and be wary of the detrimental effects its substitution for speciesism could have on their long-term …