Animal Rights Law - Hardcover

Raffael N Fasel; Sean C Butler

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1509956468 ISBN 13: 9781509956463

Publisher: Hart Publishing, 2023

Synopsis

Do animals have legal rights? This pioneering book tells readers everything they need to know about animal rights law.

Using straightforward examples from over 30 legal systems from both the civil and common law traditions, and based on popular courses run by the authors at the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights, the book takes the reader from the earliest anti-cruelty laws to modern animal welfare laws, to recent attempts to grant basic rights and personhood to animals. To help readers understand this legal evolution, it explains the ethics, legal theory, and social issues behind animal rights and connected topics such as property, subjecthood, dignity, and human rights.

The book’s companion website provides access to briefs on the latest developments in this fast-changing area, and gives readers the tools to investigate their own legal systems with a list of key references to the latest cases, legislation, and jurisdiction-specific bibliographic references.

Rich in exercises and study aids, this easy-to-use introduction is a prime resource for students from all disciplines and for anyone else who wants to understand how animals are protected by the law.

About this title

About the Author

Raffael N Fasel is Teaching Bye-Fellow in Law at Jesus College, Cambridge, UK.
Sean C Butler is Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1509956468
• ISBN 13: 9781509956463
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240