Animal law is a growing discipline, as is animal ethics. In this wide-ranging book, scholars from around the world address the intersections between the two. Specifically, this collection focuses on pressing moral issues and how law can protect animals from cruelty and abuse. A project of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, the book is edited by the Oxford Centre's directors, Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey, and features contributions from many of its fellows. Divided into three sections, the work explores historical perspectives and ethical-legal issues such as "personhood" and "property" before focusing on five practical case studies. The volume introduces readers to the interweaving between these subjects and should act as a spur to further interdisciplinary work.
Andrew Linzey is director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and has been a member of the faculty of theology in the University of Oxford for twenty-eight years. Clair Linzey is deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She is a professor of animal theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation.
Introduction: Law, Ethics, and the Special Status of Animals By Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey Part I: Historical Perspectives Chapter :1 John Philoponus's Presentation of Animal Rationality and the Law By Oliver B. Langworthy Chapter 2: The Gallinger Bill, a Bill to Regulate Animal Experimentation in the District of Columbia: Forerunner of the 1966 Laboratory Animal Welfare Act By Robyn Hederman Chapter 3: The Charitable Status of English Antivivisection: How It Was Lost and Could Be Regained By A. W. H. Bates Chapter 4: The "Glass Walls" Theory: A History and Discussion of the Guidelines and Laws concerning Nonhuman Animals in the North American Film Industry By Rebecca Stanton Chapter 5: Bringing Animal Cruelty Investigation into Mainstream Law Enforcement in the United States By Randall Lockwood Part II: Ethical-Legal Issues Chapter 6 From Ethics into Law By David Favre Chapter 7: From Morally Relevant Features to Relevant Legal Protection: A Critique of the Legal Concept of Animals as "Property" By Frances M. C. Robinson Chapter 8: The Nonhuman Rights Project's Struggles to Gain Legal Rights for Nonhuman Animals By Steven M. Wise Chapter 9: Animals as Quasi-Property/Persons By Angela Fernandez Chapter 10: Housing Rights and Forever Homes: Reforms to Make Our Cities More Livable for Our Companion Animals and Ourselves By Solana Joy Phillips Chapter 11: A Legal Critique of the Putative Educational Value of Zoos By Alice Collinson Chapter 12: Our Costly Obsession: Animal Welfare, Plastic Pollution, and New Directions for Change By Mariah Rayfield Beck Chapter 13: Why Anti-Cruelty Laws Are Not Enough By Matthew J. Webber Part III: Case Studies Chapter 14: The European Union: Make Animal Law Work-The Direct Effect Principle in EU Law as an Instrument for Improving Animal Welfare By Lena Hehemann Chapter 15: US and New Zealand: Farmed Animals and the Rule of Law By Danielle Duffield Chapter 16: Africa: Crimes against Nonhumanity? The Case of the African Elephant By Ruaidhri D. Wilson Chapter 17: India: Whither Bovinity? Hindu Dharma, the Indian State, and Conflicting Moral Perspectives over Cow Protection By Kenneth Valpey Chapter 18: United Kingdom and Ireland: Animal Law Compared By Maureen O'Sullivan and Stephanie O'Flynn About the Contributors
