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Not A Living Room Sofa: Changing The Legal Status Of Companion Animals, Susan J. Hankin
Not A Living Room Sofa: Changing The Legal Status Of Companion Animals, Susan J. Hankin
Faculty Scholarship
Although the law has traditionally treated non-human animals as property, public attitudes and many of our current laws already are beginning to reflect many ways in which animals, and especially companion animals, are fundamentally different from inanimate property. Despite these trends, the differences between animals and inanimate property need to be more clearly reflected in our laws, because there are still too many cases where the results under current laws are inconsistent with this understanding of companion animals.
This article proposes the legislative creation of a new status that formally recognizes companion animals as a distinct legal category: “companion animal …
Rescue Me: Legislating Cooperation Between Animal Control Authorities And Rescue Organizations, Rebecca J. Huss
Rescue Me: Legislating Cooperation Between Animal Control Authorities And Rescue Organizations, Rebecca J. Huss
Law Faculty Publications
Notwithstanding the overwhelming evidence that shows how important pets are to many people in the United States, the leading cause of death for dogs and cats in this country is euthanasia because of the lack of homes. Although progress has been made, conservative estimates are that between three and four million dogs and cats are euthanized each year. A successful program for implementing non-lethal strategies to control the pet population incorporates three prongs: (a) increasing adoptions, (b) increasing the number of animals sterilized and (c) increasing the number of animals retained in homes. This Article focuses on the legislative actions …
Disability And The Social Contract, Anita Silvers, Michael Ashley Stein
Disability And The Social Contract, Anita Silvers, Michael Ashley Stein
Faculty Publications
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Bred Meat--The Cultural Foundation Of The Factory Farm, David N. Cassuto
Bred Meat--The Cultural Foundation Of The Factory Farm, David N. Cassuto
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This article argues that the ability of large-scale industrial farms to commodify animals in the face of strong countervailing social forces stems in large part from the legal system’s embrace of a secularized but nonetheless deeply religious vision of human ascendancy. Within this belief system, animals comprise beings through whom we define ourselves by contrast and to whom we deny ingress to the legal system. The impulse to increase protections for nonhuman animals is offset by institutionally privileged categories of behavior that commodify nonhumans and strip them of legal defenses. The resulting lattice of laws purports to safeguard animals while …