Research Handbook on Animal Law and Animal Rights

Edited by Tomasz Pietrzykowski () and Birgitta Wahlberg ()

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Abstract: This Research Handbook examines contemporary animal law and its relationship to the philosophical and legal idea of animal rights. Adopting an inter- and multidisciplinary approach, it explores the role of legal theory, legal practice, strategic litigation and advocacy in the global development of laws protecting animals. Tomasz Pietrzykowski and Birgitta Wahlberg bring together expert contributing authors to discuss interspecies constitutionalizing and the evolution of animal law scholarship.

Keywords: Animal Law; Animal Rights; Legal Status Of Animals; Legal Protection Of Animals; Law And Animals; Animal Welfare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035324873
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Animal law unveiled: defining a new era of legal advocacy

Birgitta Wahlberg and Pamela D. Frasch

Ch 2 From constitutional animal law toward interspecies constitutionalizing

Charlotte E. Blattner

Ch 3 Towards animal flourishing through international law

Anne Peters

Ch 4 The evolution of animal law scholarship's theoretical foundations through critical animal law studies

Iyan Offor

Ch 5 Animal rights and human rights – an impossible equation?

Elina Pirjatanniemi

Ch 6 Sentience, agency, and animal status

Andrzej Elżanowski

Ch 7 Bridging the gap between jurisprudence and questions of legal status

Joshua Jowitt

Ch 8 Legal dereification of animals

Tomasz Pietrzykowski and Małgorzata Lubelska-Sazanów

Ch 9 Legal personhood and animals

Visa Kurki

Ch 10 The concept of animal dignity in Swiss animal welfare law

Gieri Bolliger

Ch 11 Animal rights and the rights of nature: between law and politics

Cezary Błaszczyk

Ch 12 Administrative control mechanisms and preventive animal protection

Birgitta Wahlberg

Ch 13 Animals in scientific research: an analysis from the perspective of Swiss law

Vanessa Gerritsen

Ch 14 Animals and food production from a United States perspective

Jessica Chapman

Ch 15 Offences against animals in Finland

Tarja Koskela

Ch 16 The institution of the animal protection ombudsperson

Simone Gräber and Ines Schnur

Ch 17 Landmark cases in animal law

Eva Bernet Kempers and Ankita Shanker

Ch 18 Basics of animal behavior and welfare assessment

Laura Hänninen and Anna Valros

Ch 19 Animals and religious traditions

Olav Hammer and Karen Swartz-Hammer

Ch 20 Animal rights and indigenous traditions in the century of anthropocentrism

Mari-Ann Susi

Ch 21 Economics and animals

Jim Leitzel and Sabina Shaikh

Ch 22 Using Environmental, Social, and Governance corporate non-financial disclosure regulations to improve animal welfare

Jamie McLaughlin

Ch 23 New welfarism in animal law

Veera Koponen

Ch 24 Strategic litigation and animal law development

Vegard Bø Bahus

Ch 25 Improving animal law by means of strategic litigation: the case of the UK

Edie Bowles

Ch 26 Animal advocacy in the European Union

Camilla Björkbom

Ch 27 Advancing the protection of all animals utilizing policy

Erica Sullivan

Ch 28 Animals and international law: a rhetorical perspective

Tero Kivinen

Ch 29 Envisioning an inter-species justice

Eric L. Sugarman

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