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Animals Property & the Law
Gary Francione (Author)
9781566392846
Paperback / softback, published 28 April 1995
274 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.513 kg
"Gary Francione's important contribution to the history of ideas places animal exploitation in its legal, philosophical, and economic context. A thorough, scholarly, and much-needed analysis that should be considered seriously even by those who disagree with the notion of animal rights."
-William A. J. Watson, University of Georgia
How to balance the failure of the legal system to protect animals with its professed recognition of animal rights
Foreword – William M. Kunstler, Esq. Part I: The Status of Animals as Property Part II: A General Application of the Theory: Anticruelty Statutes Part III: A Specific Application of the Theory: The Regulation of Animal Experimentation Epilogue: An Alternative to Legal Welfarism?
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Legal Welfarism: The Consequences of the Property Status of Animals
1. The Problem: "Unnecessary" Suffering and the "Humane" Treatment of Property
2. The Dominion of Humans over Animals, the "Defects" of Animals, and the Common Law
3. Two Examples of Legal Welfarism
4. The Exclusion of Animal Interests from Legal Consideration-the Doctrine of Standing
5. Laws and Rights: Claims, Benefits, Interests, and the Instrumental Status of Animals
Part I Conclusion
6. The Purposes of Anticruelty Statutes
7. Anticruelty Statutes and the Protection of the Institutionalized Exploitation of Animals
Part II Conclusion
8. Animal Experimentation: Animal Property and Human "Benefit"
9. The Federal Animal Welfare Act
10. The Administrative Regulation of the Animal Welfare Act
11. The Animal Welfare Act in the Courts
Part III Conclusion
Explanation of Legal Citations
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index