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Desmond's Law: A Novel Approach To Animal Advocacy, Jessica Rubin
Desmond's Law: A Novel Approach To Animal Advocacy, Jessica Rubin
Animal Law Review
In May of 2016, the Connecticut Legislature passed Public Law 16-30, informally called Desmond’s Law. This law allows courts to appoint supervised law students or volunteer lawyers to advocate for the interests of justice in animal cruelty cases. Desmond’s Law institutes a novel approach to animal cruelty cases—advocates support the prosecution and sentencing of individuals charged with animal cruelty offenses and promote enforcement of historically under-utilized anti-cruelty laws. Based upon the author’s personal experience conceiving and implementing Desmond’s Law, this Article aims to aid legislators, judges, and advocates in creating legislation modeled on Connecticut’s Desmond’s Law. This Article also aims …
Telling Tails: The Promises And Pitfalls Of Language And Narratives In Animal Advocacy Efforts, Angela Lee
Telling Tails: The Promises And Pitfalls Of Language And Narratives In Animal Advocacy Efforts, Angela Lee
Animal Law Review
Using a feminist theoretical perspective and drawing on examples from Canada and the United States, this Article considers the promises and pitfalls of language and narrative in the context of animal advocacy efforts. Because the animal advocacy movement faces an uphill battle on a number of fronts, leveraging language and narrative more conscientiously can help enhance its success. Elucidating the equivocal nature of the premises on which our current social and legal conceptualization of nonhuman animals lies can prompt a shift in the dominant modes of thjnking about nonhuman animals, thereby stimulating meaningful change in their treatment. However, it is …
Saving Apes With The Laws Of Men: Great Ape Protection In A Property-Based Animal Law System, Alexandra B. Rhodes
Saving Apes With The Laws Of Men: Great Ape Protection In A Property-Based Animal Law System, Alexandra B. Rhodes
Animal Law Review
This Note evaluates the methods advocates have taken toward furthering great ape protection in the United States (U.S.). Many animal advocates argue that abolishing animals’ property status is essential to establishing effective protections; nonetheless, it will take time for our society to accept the concept of legal personhood for animals. Therefore, this Note suggests that for the time being, great ape protection should be framed in a human context, to protect animals within the existing, property-based animal law system. In general, this Note provides background on the property status of animals in the U.S., specifically analyzes the legal status of …
Speaking For The Modern Prometheus: The Significance Of Animal Suffering To The Abolition Movement, Elizabeth L. Decoux
Speaking For The Modern Prometheus: The Significance Of Animal Suffering To The Abolition Movement, Elizabeth L. Decoux
Animal Law Review
There is a great divide in animal advocacy between Abolition and Welfare. Abolitionists seek to end the property status of animals. Welfarists, while acquiescing in the categorization of animals as property, seek to improve the conditions in which those animals live and die. Abolitionists have worked toward their goal for decades, and Welfarists toward theirs for centuries, but animals continue to suffer and die in ever-increasing numbers. This Article reviews the theories and methods of Abolitionists and Welfarists and suggests one reason that they have failed to relieve animal suffering and death: Welfarists use the right tool in the service …
Two Major Flaws Of The Animal Rights Movement, Geordie Duckler
Two Major Flaws Of The Animal Rights Movement, Geordie Duckler
Animal Law Review
In its current guise, animal rights advocacy imposes few intellectual demands on its proponents, usually requiring little more than a colorful Web site and a college dictionary, the former to construct an audience, and the latter to provide the emotion-laden phrases needed to inflame that audience into supporting stringent penalties for animal-related crimes. Hard thought is not really essential for animal rights advocates to be able to proclaim an end to animal abuse or an allegiance to easing animal suffering, and the standard advocate toolkit simply need not include “rational legal analysis” among the apparatus utilized to rail against mistreatment, …
At A Complex Crossroads: Animal Law In Indian Country, Rob Roy Smith
At A Complex Crossroads: Animal Law In Indian Country, Rob Roy Smith
Animal Law Review
Animals play an especially important role in Indian history and culture. The value of animals to the tribes is reflected in every aspect of their culture, from song and dance to land use and treaty terms. Tribes today are still dependent on fish and wildlife for ceremonies and everyday living. The tribes have translated their value for animals into creative ways to protect domestic animals and manage animal populations, including working with state and federal governments to co-manage fish and wildlife populations. This article begins with a discussion of criminal and civil jurisdiction within Indian Country. The article provides a …
2006 Legislative Review, Marjorie A. Berger
Animal Law In Action: The Law, Public Perception, And The Limits Of Animal Rights Theory As A Basis For Legal Reform, Jonathan R. Lovvorn
Animal Law In Action: The Law, Public Perception, And The Limits Of Animal Rights Theory As A Basis For Legal Reform, Jonathan R. Lovvorn
Animal Law Review
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Steven M. Wise: Rattling The Cage -- Toward Legal Rights For Animals, David J. Wolfson
Steven M. Wise: Rattling The Cage -- Toward Legal Rights For Animals, David J. Wolfson
Animal Law Review
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