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Desmond's Law: A Novel Approach To Animal Advocacy, Jessica Rubin Jan 2018

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 …


In Memoriam: Peter S. Nycum, David B. Rosengard Jan 2015

In Memoriam: Peter S. Nycum, David B. Rosengard

Animal Law Review

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Twenty Years And Change, David Favre Jan 2013

Twenty Years And Change, David Favre

Animal Law Review

This Introduction provides an overview of the evolution of animal law over the past twenty years, demonstrating how changes in the law, social awareness, and legal education have directly affected this field. This Introduction describes both the positive and negative changes that have taken place, from the banning of dogfighting and cockfighting by federal law and some state laws; a spread in voter-adopted legislation providing for the protection of agricultural animals; and movements to reduce the use of chimpanzees in animal research; to the limitations of the Animal Welfare Act; changes in the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) policy …


Passing The Baton: How Teamwork And Unbridled Optimism Created Lewis & Clark's Animal Law Program, Nancy Perry Jan 2012

Passing The Baton: How Teamwork And Unbridled Optimism Created Lewis & Clark's Animal Law Program, Nancy Perry

Animal Law Review

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Critical Animal Studies And Animal Law, Maneesha Deckha Jan 2012

Critical Animal Studies And Animal Law, Maneesha Deckha

Animal Law Review

Law is anthropocentric. With the limited exception of its treatment of the corporation, law is a system of rules that privileges the concept of the human and ascribes reality through a human perspective. Appreciating this, it is truly impressive that animal issues in the law have become so prominent throughout the legal education system. With this increased exposure to posthumanist critiques of the legal system and its status for and treatment of animals, an increasing number of those involved in legal education are rethinking the law’s species-based hierarchy that places humans at the apex. This flourishing interest in animal law …


Teaching Posthumanist Ethics In Law School: The Race, Culture, And Gender Dimensions Of Student Resistance, Maneesha Deckha Jan 2010

Teaching Posthumanist Ethics In Law School: The Race, Culture, And Gender Dimensions Of Student Resistance, Maneesha Deckha

Animal Law Review

This Essay challenges laws’ hegemonic humanist boundaries by analyzing the challenges involved in mainstreaming posthumanist subjects into the legal curricula. Posthumanist subjects in legal education are perceived as marginal and unworthy of serious discussion and scholarship. The author identifies the problems that can arise in introducing posthumanist critical content through her experience of teaching animal law as an optional course and as a part of a compulsory first-year course on property law and in advising on an upper-year student-led conference. She argues that the biases related to gendered, racialized, and otherwise differentiated norms inherited by the legal education system as …


Using A Jury Of Her Peers To Teach About The Connection Between Domestic Violence And Animal Abuse, Caroline Forell Jan 2008

Using A Jury Of Her Peers To Teach About The Connection Between Domestic Violence And Animal Abuse, Caroline Forell

Animal Law Review

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Building Our Future, Joyce Tischler Jan 2008

Building Our Future, Joyce Tischler

Animal Law Review

No abstract provided.


Fifteen Volumes Of Animal Law, Laura Cadiz Jan 2008

Fifteen Volumes Of Animal Law, Laura Cadiz

Animal Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Review Of Animal Rights: Current Debates And New Directions, Laura Ireland Moore Jan 2005

A Review Of Animal Rights: Current Debates And New Directions, Laura Ireland Moore

Animal Law Review

No abstract provided.


Origins Of Animal Law: Three Perspectives, Richard J. Katz, Michael C. Blumm, Holly Anne Gibbons Jan 2004

Origins Of Animal Law: Three Perspectives, Richard J. Katz, Michael C. Blumm, Holly Anne Gibbons

Animal Law Review

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Ten Years Of Animal Law At Lewis & Clark Law School, Nancy V. Perry Jan 2003

Ten Years Of Animal Law At Lewis & Clark Law School, Nancy V. Perry

Animal Law Review

This introduction is a summary and extension of remarks presented in the keynote address for the 10th Annual Animal Law Conference at Lewis & Clark Law School.


Animal Law -- The Casebook, Steven M. Wise Jan 2000

Animal Law -- The Casebook, Steven M. Wise

Animal Law Review

No abstract provided.