Raffael N Fasel

More Equal Than Others (eBook, PDF)

Humans and the Rights of Other Animals

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Produktbeschreibung

Unprecedented demands have recently arrived at the doorstep of courts and parliaments the world over: nonhuman animals should receive some of the rights that have so far been reserved to human beings. This development has raised fundamental questions about the nature of legal rights, and who should have them. More Equal Than Others: Humans and the Rights of Other Animals provides a sustained analysis of the fundamental rights of human and nonhuman animals to explore the issue of whether conferring fundamental legal rights to animals would undermine the equal status and rights of humans. Raffael N Fasel proposes an unorthodox but practical solution to this issue: the Species Membership Approach (SMA). According to the SMA, legal rights and similar entitlements should be granted to animals based on the species to which they belong, not their individual capacities. By pioneering an approach that focuses on species membership rather than individual capacities, the author demonstrates how fundamental legal rights can be extended to nonhuman animals without threatening the status and equal rights of humans. This book examines the antithetical nature of the human rights and animal rights conceptions that have so far dominated the debate and demonstrates how a middle ground can be reached between these opposing conceptions. Informed by the forgotten history of animal and human rights in the French Enlightenment, More Equal Than Others radically reimagines the spectrum of fundamental rights conceptions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198907411
• Artikelnr.: 70035668

Autorenporträt

Raffael N Fasel is the Yates Glazebrook Fellow and College Assistant Professor in Law at Jesus College, Cambridge and Affiliated Lecturer at the Cambridge Law Faculty. He was previously Fellow in Law at the London School of Economics, and obtained his PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge. He holds an LLM from Yale Law School, an MA in Philosophy from University College London, and a Bachelor and Master of Law from the University of Fribourg.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Animal and Human Rights in the Enlightenment
Chapter 3: The Aristocratic Conception
Chapter 4: The Meritocratic Conception
Chapter 5: Sentientist Rights: A Third Conception?
Chapter 6: Meritocratizing the Aristocracy
Chapter 7: The Species Membership Approach
Chapter 8: Conclusion