A-Z Subject List: Key Legal Treatises and Textbooks

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This book critically evaluates the present legal status of animals and asks us to consider whether animals should be viewed as objects, as legal subjects, as legal persons, or as something else entirely.

This book critically examines how Canadian law and, by extension, other legal orders around the world, participate in the social construction of the human-animal divide and the abject rendering of animals as property.

This book address a range of doctrinal and conceptual questions, situating legal analysis in the broader context of ethical and philosophical debate about justice in human-animal relationships.

The Brooks Animal Law Digests are meant to serve as a high-level overview of current developments in the field. The Digests are a resource for anyone interested in learning more about animal law, either as a broad survey or a jumping off point for digging deeper into a specific issue.

Animals, Equality and Democracy examines the structure of animal protection legislation and finds that it is deeply inequitable, with a tendency to favour those animals the community is most likely to see and engage with.

This exploration of the newly emerging, diverse, and controversial area of animal law presents a basic survey of the laws designed to protect animals, analyzing and critiquing them, and proposing a future where the legal regime properly recognizes and protects the inherent worth of all animals.

This book brings together leading and emerging critical legal theorists to address the question of animality in relation to law's foundations, practices, and traditions of thought.

This book explores some of the ways that the oppression of Indigenous persons and more-than-human animals are interconnected.

The book starts with an overview of anti-cruelty and animal welfare laws, before focusing on progress towards granting basic rights and legal personhood to animals.

A Worldview of Animal Law is split into subject areas tied to the different ways we interact with animals in society, with a focus on comparing the laws in different countries in the current era

This book focuses on animal laws and animal welfare in major jurisdictions in the world, including the more developed legal regimes for animal protection of the US, UK, Australia, the EU and Israel, and the regulatory regimes still developing in China, South Africa, and Brazil.

This book looks at the complex interaction which occurs between domestic animal law and various international regimes.

This book provides a detailed analysis of international and comparative animal law focusing on the impact of the globalized economy on animal law.