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Law: Animal Law

The Animal Law Research Guide provides guidance for students researching animal law and advocacy, as well as the discussion of animals in the fields of philosophy, cultural studies, gender and women's studies, environmental studies, and literary theory.

Suggested Readings for Those New to Animal Law

Taimie L. Bryant, Sacrificing the Sacrifice of Animals: Legal Personhood for Animals, the Status of Animals as Property, and the Presumed Primacy of Humans, 39 Rutgers Law Journal 247 (2007) (PDF available in HeinOnline).

David Favre, Equitable Self-Ownership for Animals, 50 Duke Law Journal 473 (2000) (PDF available in HeinOnline).

Gary L. Francione, Reflections on Animals, Property, and the Law and Rain Without Thunder, 70 Law & Contemporary Problems 9 (2007) (PDF available in HeinOnline).

Susan J. Hankin, Not a Living Room Sofa: Changing the Legal Status of Companion Animals, 4 Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy 314 (2007) (PDF available in HeinOnline).

Rebecca J. Huss, Valuing Man's and Woman's Best Friend: The Moral and Legal Status of Companion Animals, 86 Marquette Law Review 47 (2002) (PDF available in HeinOnline).

William A. Edmundson, Do Animals Need Rights?, Journal of Political Philosophy (2014 (PDF available on Wiley Online Library).

Gary L. Francione, Animal Welfare and the Moral Value of Nonhuman Animals, 6 Law, Culture & the Humanities 24 (2010) (PDF available on Sage Complete).

Gary L. Francione, Animal Rights and Animal Welfare, 48 Rutgers Law Review 397 (1996) (PDF available in HeinOnline).

Martha C. Nussbaum, Animal Rights: The Need for a Theoretical Basis, 114 Harvard Law Review 1506 (2001) (PDF available in HeinOnline).

Cass R. Sunstein, The Rights of Animals, 70 University of Chicago Law Review 387 (2003) (PDF available in HeinOnline).

Cass R. Sunstein, Standing for Animals, 47 UCLA Law Review 1333 (2000) (PDF available in HeinOnline).

Legal Standing for Animals and Advocates, 13 Animal Law 61 (2006) (PDF available in HeinOnline).

David N. Cassuto, Bred Meat: The Cultural Foundation of the Factory Farm, 70 Law & Contemporary Problems 59 (2007) (PDF available in HeinOnline).

David N. Cassuto, Environment, Ethics, and the Factory Farm, 54 South Texas Law Review 579 (2013) (PDF available in HeinOnline).

Gary L. Francione, Animals, Property, and Legal Welfarism: "Unnecessary" Suffering and the "Humane" Treatment of Animals, 46 Rutgers Law Review 721 (1994) (PDF available in HeinOnline).

Jeff Leslie & Cass R. Sunstein, Animal Rights Without Controversy, 70 Law & Contemporary Problems 117 (2007) (PDF available in HeinOnline)

Mariann Sullivan & David J. Wolfson, What's Good for the Goose . . . the Israeli Supreme Court, and the Future of Farmed Animals in the United States, Law & Contemporary Problems 139 (2007) (PDF available in HeinOnline).

Jeff Welty, Humane Slaughter Laws, 70 Law & Contemporary Problems 175 (2007) (PDF available in HeinOnline).

David J. Wolfson, Beyond the Law: Agribusiness and the Systemic Abuse of Animals Raised for Food or Food Production, 2 Animal Law 123 (1996) (PDF available in HeinOnline).

Carol J. Adams, Bringing Peace Home: A Feminist Philosophical Perspective on the Abuse of Women, Children, and Pet Animals, 9 Hypatia 63 (1994) (PDF available on JSTOR).

Rebecca J. Huss, Separation, Custody, and Estate Planning Issues Relating to Companion Animals, 74 University of Colorado Law Review 181 (2003) (PDF available in HeinOnline).

Josephine Donovan, Animal Rights and Feminist Theory, 15 Signs 350 (1990) (PDF available on JSTOR).

Carol J. Adams, Ecofeminism and the Eating of Animals, 6 Hypatia 125 (1991) (PDF available on JSTOR).

Taimie L. Bryant, Trauma, Law, and Advocacy for Animals, 1 Journal of Animal Law and Ethics 62 (2006) (PDF).

Taimie L. Bryant, American Law: Legal Recognition of Animals' Capacity to Experience Pain, in Animal Suffering: From Science to Law 259-273 (Thierry Auffret Van Der Kemp and Martine Lachance, eds., 2013) (PDF).

David Favre, Twenty Years and Change, 20 Animal Law 7 (2013) (PDF available on HeinOnline).

Thomas G. Kelch, A Short History of (Mostly) Western Animal Law: Part I, 19 Animal Law 23 (2012) (PDF available on HeinOnline).

Thomas G. Kelch, A Short History of (Mostly) Western Animal Law: Part II, 19 Animal Law 347 (2013) (PDF available on HeinOnline).

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