Animals Property & The Law /

""Pain is pain, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the victim," states William M. Kunstler in the Foreword. This moral concern for the suffering of animals and their legal status is the basis for Gary L. Francione's profound book, which asks, Why has the law failed to p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Francione, Gary L. (Gary Lawrence), 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1995.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Eigentum
Tiere
Tierschutz
Animals > Law and legislation.
Animal welfare > Law and legislation.
Animal rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Animaux > Droits.
Animals > Law and legislation > United States.
Animal welfare > Law and legislation > United States.
USA.
USA
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Legal welfarism: the consequences of the property status of animals
  • Status of animals as property
  • Problem: unnecessary suffering and the humane treatment of property
  • Dominion of humans over animals, the defects of animals, and the common law
  • Two examples of legal welfarism
  • Exclusion of animal interests from legal consideration: the doctrine of standing
  • Laws and rights: claims, benefits, interests and the instrumental status of animals
  • General application of the theory: anticruelty statutes.
  • Purposes of anticruelty statutes
  • Anticruelty statutes and the protection of the institutionalized exploitation of animals
  • Specific application of the theory: the regulation of animal experimentation
  • Animal experimentation: animal property and human benefit
  • Federal Animal Welfare Act
  • Administrative regulation of the Animal Welfare Act
  • Animal Welfare Act in the courts
  • Alternative to legal welfarism.

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