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No Walk In The Dog Park: Drafting Animal Cruelty Statutes To Resolve Double Jeopardy Concerns And Eliminate Unfettered Prosecutorial Discretion, Laurie Serafino
No Walk In The Dog Park: Drafting Animal Cruelty Statutes To Resolve Double Jeopardy Concerns And Eliminate Unfettered Prosecutorial Discretion, Laurie Serafino
Laurie B. Serafino
This article evaluates animal abuse and cruelty laws throughout the United States. It demonstrates that, although an emerging trend treats animals more like humans and less like property in some criminal cases and statutes, the laws of many states still adhere to the traditional view of animals as property, causing unique charging and sentencing issues that must be clarified in order to bring predictability and consistency to the law.
In the article, Professor Serafino explores the option of creating a new paradigm in this area, in which animals are treated as a hybrid category of "living property," "legal personhood," or …
Life Cycles Of American Legal History Through Bob Dylan's Eyes, Laurie Serafino
Life Cycles Of American Legal History Through Bob Dylan's Eyes, Laurie Serafino
Laurie B. Serafino
This article discusses how America's passage through cycles of change that correlate to patterns of discrimination and revolution, as illustrated in the lyrics of Bob Dylan, is represented in American law. It examines, from a legal perspective, Bob Dylan's ideas on social policy and change, and identifies periods in American history during which the nation was "put on the cross, died, and was resurrected."
This examination emphasizes certain key players in U.S. history, who were admired by Dylan for being honorable and fair, standing up for the underdog, and fighting hard against their enemies. These key players include Thaddeus Stevens, …