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Humane Education, Dissection, And The Law, Marcia Goodman Kramer
Humane Education, Dissection, And The Law, Marcia Goodman Kramer
Animal Law Review
Students regularly encounter animal dissection in education, yet humane education receives little attention in animal law. This article analyzes the status of humane education laws in the United States. It discusses the range of statutory protections, from student choice laws to bans on vivisection. The article then analyzes the litigation options for students who do not wish to dissect, including constitutional claims and claims arising under student choice laws. The article concludes by calling for additional legislation to protect students who have ethical objections to dissection.
Animal Testing In Cosmetics: Recent Developments In The European Union And The United States, Laura Donnellan
Animal Testing In Cosmetics: Recent Developments In The European Union And The United States, Laura Donnellan
Animal Law Review
Animal welfare has become a recent issue in the policy of the European Union. Since the creation of the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1957, the welfare of animals was only considered in relation to the proper functioning of the common market. Animals were seen as commodities whose interests were intertwined with agricultural and environmental policy. Over the years, the position has changed somewhat. Although a Treaty basis exists for animal welfare, the protection of animals has not yet been recognized as an important policy area of its own, and thus worthy of legal protection. As a positive step in …
Animal Experimentation: Lessons From Human Experimentation, Arthur Birmingham Lafrance
Animal Experimentation: Lessons From Human Experimentation, Arthur Birmingham Lafrance
Animal Law Review
This article is adapted from the author's presentation during the panel discussion Animals in Research: Pet Cloning, Patents, and Bioethics at the 14th Annual Animal Law Conference of Lewis & Clark Law School on October 14, 2006.
Conventional wisdom tells us that animal experimentation is a relevant precursor to human experimentation. The failings of human experimentation to be more reliable, however, casts substantial doubt on the necessity and appropriateness of experimentation on animals. The federal government and medical community, since World War II, has used the Nuremberg Code and the “common rule” to determine how to ethically conduct human experimentation. …