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Letting The Apes Run The Zoo: Using Tort Law To Provide Animals With A Legal Voice, Tania Rice 
Pepperdine University
Letting The Apes Run The Zoo: Using Tort Law To Provide Animals With A Legal Voice, Tania Rice
Pepperdine Law Review
Science is increasingly showing us that animals have many cognitive similarities with humans. In addition to calls for changes in our animal protection statutes, members of the legal community have begun debating over whether animals, or a certain category of animals, should be granted legal rights. This approach has the potential for drastic societal ramifications. David S. Favre has proposed a tort action for animals as a compromise to the animal rights debate. This Comment explores the different approaches to seeking improved conditions for animals, and proposes an adjusted tort cause of action in response to criticisms of Favre's ...
The Day The Hunter’S Saved The Species, Brian Davis 
Seton Hall Law
The Day The Hunter’S Saved The Species, Brian Davis
Student Scholarship
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Comanagement: Merging The Esa With Political Pressure To Create A Viable Alternative To Esa Listing, Stephanie Pacey Pepperdine University
Comanagement: Merging The Esa With Political Pressure To Create A Viable Alternative To Esa Listing, Stephanie Pacey
Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary
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Can't You Smell That Smell? Clean Air Act Fixes For Factory Farm Air Pollution, J. Nicholas Hoover 
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Can't You Smell That Smell? Clean Air Act Fixes For Factory Farm Air Pollution, J. Nicholas Hoover
Student Articles and Papers
Massive facilities that keep large numbers of livestock have overtaken small, independent farms as the primary source of meat, eggs, and dairy in the United States. These concentrated animal feeding operations ("CAFOs) compare more to industrial manufacturing operations than to traditional farms, and emit huge quantities of air pollutants that are harmful to public health, sickening people and damaging the environment. The Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") possesses statutorily provided tools under the Clean Air Act that it uses to regular other polluting industries. However, this article - after reviewing the rise of CAFOs, examining the threats they pose, and surveying current ...
The Implementation Of The Animal Damage Control Act: A Comment On Wildlife Services's Methods Of Predatory Animal Control, Tiffany Bacon Pepperdine University
The Implementation Of The Animal Damage Control Act: A Comment On Wildlife Services's Methods Of Predatory Animal Control, Tiffany Bacon
Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary
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Meat Animals, Humane Standards And Other Legal Fictions, David N. Cassuto 
Pace University
Meat Animals, Humane Standards And Other Legal Fictions, David N. Cassuto
Pace Law Faculty Publications
Law and food are distinct concepts, though the discipline (Law and Food) implies a relationship worthy of study. The conjunction (“and”) creates meaning. However, its absence also conveys meaning. For example, “meat animal” suggests that animals can be both meat and animal. This conflation has powerful legal implications. National Meat Association v. Harris (2012) makes chillingly plain the law’s indifference to whether a meat animal is alive or dead. This essay examines the way supposedly humane federal practices ignore the systematic brutalization of “food animals” as those animals get processed into marketable flesh. It concludes with some observations about ...
Dying To Entertain Us Or Living To Educate Us? A Comprehensive Investigation Of Captive Killer Whales, Their Trainers, And How The Law Must Evolve To Meet Their Needs, Megan J. Rechberg Pepperdine University
Dying To Entertain Us Or Living To Educate Us? A Comprehensive Investigation Of Captive Killer Whales, Their Trainers, And How The Law Must Evolve To Meet Their Needs, Megan J. Rechberg
Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary
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An International Treaty For Animal Welfare, David S. Favre 
Michigan State University College of Law
An International Treaty For Animal Welfare, David S. Favre
Faculty Publications
Currently there is no international agreement that ensures the welfare and protection of animals. Nor is there any international standard that regulates and defines the acceptable treatment of animals. This lack of international consensus leads to the current disparate treatment of animals around the world, echoing the need for an international framework addressing the issue. This Article discusses a proposed umbrella treaty, the International Convention for the Protection of Animals (ICPA). This umbrella treaty would enable animal welfare issues to gain international recognition and protection by setting the general guidelines and polices regarding the treatment and use of animals. This ...
How To Give The Dog A Home: Using Mediation To Solve Companion Animal Custody Disputes, Emily Franklin Pepperdine University
How To Give The Dog A Home: Using Mediation To Solve Companion Animal Custody Disputes, Emily Franklin
Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal
The article presents information on the domestication of dogs with respect to the resolution of the custody disputes of the animals and the method of mediation for the solving the disputes of companion animals in the U.S. Companion animals are considered as the essential part of the family in the country. Information on the requirement of mediation with respect to the animal law and the family law of the U.S. is also presented.
Animal Law In California , William McCarty Noall Pepperdine University
Animal Law In California , William Mccarty Noall
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Antimony: The Use, Rights, And Regulation Of Laboratory Animals , Brenda L. Thomas Pepperdine University
Antimony: The Use, Rights, And Regulation Of Laboratory Animals , Brenda L. Thomas
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
The History Of Animal Welfare Law And The Future Of Animal Rights, Marie Blosh 
Western University
The History Of Animal Welfare Law And The Future Of Animal Rights, Marie Blosh
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Animals were included within the protection of the law in the early nineteenth century. Why have there been so few advances since then? Discussion about this question tends to focus on the moral and legal status of animals. That is undoubtedly an important issue, but it stems from a tradition that looks for the singular trait that distinguishes humans from all other animals. This thesis uses an historical approach to explore the tension between the humane impulse to alleviate animal suffering and the sense of human superiority that permits animal exploitation. The conclusion is that animal rights theory could build ...
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Southern Cross University
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Maurer School of Law: Indiana University
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Maurer School of Law: Indiana University
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Factory Farming: An Imminent Clash Between Animal Rights Activists And Agribusiness
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Legal, Moral And Biological Implications Of Poaching And Illegal Animal Trafficking On An International Scale, Meghan Pastor
Punitive Damage Awards In Pet-Death Cases: How Do The Ratio Rules Of State Farm V. Campbell Apply?, William Reppy
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Appropriate Regulation Of Antibiotics In Livestock Feed
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