History of animal law – 1800 to present

Thomas G. Kelch

Chapter 46 in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law, 2025, pp 175-178 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Animal law has gone through an evolution. The period between 1800 and the present includes substantial changes in the focus and substance of animal law. The 19th century witnessed the dawn of animal law, largely focused on preventing cruelty to animals and protecting animals for their own sake. Laws were created to address animal experimentation and environmental concerns relating to animals. The recent modern period, after 1970, has seen the proliferation of laws that purport to be based on the science of animal welfare, signalling another shift in the motivations behind laws relating to animals.

Keywords: Animal law; Cruelty; History; Unnecessary pain and suffering; Animal experiments; Environment; Animal welfare science (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781803923666
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/doi/10.4337/9781803923673.00053 (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 403 Forbidden

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:21587_46

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jack Sweeney ().