Gary Francione

Animals Property & the Law

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Asks why has the law failed to protect animals from exploitation? Exploring different facets of this issue, this title discusses the history of the treatment of animals, anticruelty statutes, vivisection, the Federal Animal Welfare Act, and specific cases such as the controversial injury of anaesthetized baboons at the University of Pennsylvania.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781566392846
• ISBN-10: 1566392845
• Artikelnr.: 21237491

Autorenporträt

Gary L. Francione is Professor of Law and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach Scholar of Law at Rutgers University Law School, Newark. He is also Co-director of the Rutgers Animal Rights Law Center.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword – William M. Kunstler, Esq.
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Legal Welfarism: The Consequences of the Property Status of
Animals
Part I: The Status of Animals as Property
1. The Problem: "Unnecessary" Suffering and the "Humane" Treatment of
Property
2. The Dominion of Humans over Animals, the "Defects" of Animals, and the
Common Law
3. Two Examples of Legal Welfarism
4. The Exclusion of Animal Interests from Legal Consideration—the Doctrine
of Standing
5. Laws and Rights: Claims, Benefits, Interests, and the Instrumental
Status of Animals
Part I Conclusion
Part II: A General Application of the Theory: Anticruelty Statutes
6. The Purposes of Anticruelty Statutes
7. Anticruelty Statutes and the Protection of the Institutionalized
Exploitation of Animals
Part II Conclusion
Part III: A Specific Application of the Theory: The Regulation of Animal
Experimentation
8. Animal Experimentation: Animal Property and Human "Benefit"
9. The Federal Animal Welfare Act
10. The Administrative Regulation of the Animal Welfare Act
11. The Animal Welfare Act in the Courts
Part III Conclusion
Epilogue: An Alternative to Legal Welfarism?
Explanation of Legal Citations
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index