Global Animal Law Research

Global Animal Law Research
Author: Alex Xiaomeng Zhang
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press LLC
Total Pages:
Release: 2022-02
Genre: Animal welfare
ISBN: 9781531016937

"Across the globe, legal protection of animal rights continues to be a significant problem, and the level of protection varies dramatically among countries. Yet, no treatise has compiled resources and strategies on how to research these critical topics at both a domestic and international level. The purpose of this book is to fill the gap. Featuring 12 research experts specializing in U.S., foreign, international, and comparative law research, Global Animal Law Research collects these experts' perspectives, knowledge, and experiences researching various animal rights and welfare topics. The chapters in this book identify, discuss, and analyze research resources, strategies, and current and emerging legal frameworks on animal rights and welfare in the laws of more than 15 countries across five continents. In addition, this book touches on a diverse set of research methods in both common law and civil law legal systems, including regulatory research, legislative research, statutory research, case law research, international agreement research, and comparative law research. Each chapter focuses on an a singular, important, and well-defined legal topic, identifying unique problems within that topic and exploring practical yet effective approaches to address these problems. With its detailed exploration of the otherwise unexplored process of researching animal law, this book will benefit a global audience of faculty and students in law schools with active animal law programs; animal law practitioners; animal law policy groups and advocates; and international animal law interest groups and organizations"--

Animals in International Law

Animals in International Law
Author: Anne Peters
Publisher: Pocket Books of the Hague Acad
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2021
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9789004466241

Chapter I. Animals : a topic for international law --Chapter II. An overview of international rules on animals --Chapter III. The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling : dead or alive? --Chapter IV. Farm animals in the law of the European Union --Chapter V. Animals in international trade law --Chapter VI. Animals in the law of armed conflict --Chapter VII. Towards international animal rights --Chapter VIII. Towards a global animal protection law.

Animal Law and Welfare - International Perspectives

Animal Law and Welfare - International Perspectives
Author: Deborah Cao
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2016-02-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 331926818X

This book focuses on animal laws and animal welfare in major jurisdictions in the world, including the more developed legal regimes for animal protection of the US, UK, Australia, the EU and Israel, and the regulatory regimes still developing in China, South Africa, and Brazil. It offers in-depth analyses and discussions of topical and important issues in animal laws and animal welfare, and provides a comprehensive and comparative snapshot of some of the most important countries in the world in terms of animal population and worsening animal cruelty. Among the issues discussed are international law topics that relate to animals, including the latest WTO ruling on seal products and the EU ban, the Blackfish story and US law for cetaceans, the wildlife trafficking and crimes related to Africa and China, and historical and current animal protection laws in the UK and Australia. Bringing together the disciplines of animal law and animal welfare science as well as ethics and criminology with contributions from some of the most prominent animal welfare scientists and animal law scholars in the world, the book considers the strengths and failings of existing animal protection law in different parts of the world. In doing so it draws more attention to animal protection as a moral and legal imperative and to crimes against animals as a serious crime.

Animal Welfare and International Trade Law

Animal Welfare and International Trade Law
Author: Katie Sykes
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-05-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1839109807

This thought-provoking book examines the rise of animal welfare as a serious policy concern in the international trade law regime. The central focus is an in-depth study of the background and legal analysis of the landmark EC – Seal Products case, which confirmed the importance of animal welfare in WTO law. The book explores how the WTO handled the relationship between trade disciplines and animal welfare, including the particularly challenging questions around Indigenous seal hunting rights. It offers a detailed account of animal welfare and animal conservation commitments in new trade agreements, as well as mechanisms for enforcement, cooperation, and citizen participation.

The Global Guide to Animal Protection

The Global Guide to Animal Protection
Author: Andrew Linzey
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2013-06-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0252094891

Raising awareness of human indifference and cruelty toward animals, The Global Guide to Animal Protection includes more than 180 introductory articles that survey the extent of worldwide human exploitation of animals from a variety of perspectives. In addition to entries on often disturbing examples of human cruelty toward animals, the book provides inspiring accounts of attempts by courageous individuals--including Jane Goodall, Shirley McGreal, Birute Mary Galdikas, Richard D. Ryder, and Roger Fouts--to challenge and change exploitative practices. As concern for animals and their welfare grows, this volume will be an indispensable aid to general readers, activists, scholars, and students interested in developing a keener awareness of cruelty to animals and considering avenues for reform. Also included is a special foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, urging readers to seek justice and protection for all creatures, humans and animals alike.

Studies in Global Animal Law

Studies in Global Animal Law
Author: Anne Peters
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2020-01-01
Genre: Animal welfare
ISBN: 3662607565

This open access book contains 13 contributions on global animal law, preceded by an introduction which explains key concepts and methods. Global Animal Law refers to the sum of legal rules and principles (both state-made and non-state-made) governing the interaction between humans and other animals, on a domestic, local, regional, and international level. Global animal law is the response to the mismatch between almost exclusively national animal-related legislation on the one hand, and the global dimension of the animal issue on the other hand. The chapters lay some historical foundations in the ius naturae et gentium, examine various aspects of how national and international law traditionally deals with animals as commodity; and finally suggest new legal concepts and protective strategies. The book shows numerous entry points for animal issues in international law and at the same time shifts the focus and scope of inquiry.

Animals, Welfare and the Law

Animals, Welfare and the Law
Author: Ian A. Robertson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2015-07-16
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1136281924

In this objective, practical and authoritative introductory text the author reveals how the fundamental principles of the human-animal relationship drive the development of animal law. The book explains the criteria by which the lawful use of animals is determined, and how these criteria impact evolving standards of animal protection and define the responsibilities of people in their interactions with animals. The author identifies 29 key principles which constitute the core knowledge necessary for people involved in debating, assessing, and guiding the evolution of society’s national and international rulebook of animal welfare law. The book also considers animal welfare and law in the context of a global market through discussion of common issues such as climate change, biosecurity, food safety and food supply. Based on successful law courses run by the author and his own expertise as an animal law lecturer, prosecutor and specialist legal adviser, the book combines insights from science, ethics and law to provide an essential understanding of what informs society and the law with regards to animals and their welfare.

Animals as Legal Beings

Animals as Legal Beings
Author: Maneesha Deckha
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2020-12-16
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1487538251

In Animals as Legal Beings, Maneesha Deckha critically examines how Canadian law and, by extension, other legal orders around the world, participate in the social construction of the human-animal divide and the abject rendering of animals as property. Through a rigorous but cogent analysis, Deckha calls for replacing the exploitative property classification for animals with a new transformative legal status or subjectivity called "beingness." In developing a new legal subjectivity for animals, one oriented toward respecting animals for who they are rather than their proximity to idealized versions of humanness, Animals as Legal Beings seeks to bring critical animal theorizations and animal law closer together. Throughout, Deckha draws upon the feminist animal care tradition, as well as feminist theories of embodiment and relationality, postcolonial theory, and critical animal studies. Her argument is critical of the liberal legal view of animals and directed at a legal subjectivity for animals attentive to their embodied vulnerability, and desirous of an animal-friendly cultural shift in the core foundations of anthropocentric legal systems. Theoretically informed yet accessibly presented, Animals as Legal Beings makes a significant contribution to an array of interdisciplinary debates and is an innovative and astute argument for a meaningful more-than-human turn in law and policy.

Animal Law

Animal Law
Author: David S. Favre
Publisher: Aspen Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Animal welfare
ISBN: 9781454802662

Previous edition, 1st, published in 2008.

Protecting Animals Within and Across Borders

Protecting Animals Within and Across Borders
Author: Charlotte E. Blattner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2019
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0190948310

based on author's thesis (doctoral - Universitèat Basel, 2016) issued under title: The extraterritorial protection of animals: admissibility and possibilities of the application of national animal welfare standards to animals in foreign countries.