Compiled by Jenny Zook
Introduction
This guide provides library resources on Animal Rights Law and Welfare.
Getting Started
Note: These are a few resources available at the Law Library and on campus. For more resources, please use the menu bar on the left.
Databases
Study Materials
Animal Law in a Nutshell by
Topics include animal anti-cruelty laws, industrial and agricultural uses of animals, torts and other claims for harm done to animals, as well as federal, state and local regulation of animal ownership and use, animal rights activism, hunting, fishing and other recreational uses of animals, animals in entertainment, issues arising when animals are the subject of a contract or the intended beneficiary of a will or trust, remedies for harm done to animals, international animal law, constitutional law issues, and anticipated future legal developments in the field.
Call Number: KF390.5.A5 F73 2021 (Behind Circulation Desk)ISBN: 9781684678853Publication Date: 2020-12-07
Understanding Animal Law by
This text not only covers obvious topics such as dangerous dog litigation, veterinary malpractice, wildlife law, service animals, valuation of animals, humans harmed by animals, end-of-life/euthanasia, and custody issues, but also provides analysis of other areas of law where they intersect with animal law issues, such as criminal law, estate planning, consumer protection, bankruptcy, insurance law, contractual disputes, and Section 1983.
Call Number: KF390.5.A5 K37 2016 (Behind Circulation Desk)ISBN: 0769854206Publication Date: 2016-10-01
New and Relevant Titles
- Animal Welfare Laws by Federal and state laws balance the welfare of animals and the humans that benefit from their use. The growing body of animal welfare laws is the subject of this legal research guide. This guide will assist researchers by providing research strategies and listing the selected statutes, regulations, and secondary resources they need to begin their research in this area of law.--Publisher.Call Number: Ref KF241.A55 P432 2023 (In library use only)ISBN: 9780837742946Publication Date: 2023-01-01
- Carceral Logics by Carceral logics permeate our thinking about humans and nonhumans. We imagine that greater punishment will reduce crime and make society safer. We hope that more convictions and policing for animal crimes will keep animals safe and elevate their social status. The dominant approach to human-animal relations is governed by an unjust imbalance of power that subordinates or ignores the interest nonhumans have in freedom. In this volume Lori Gruen and Justin Marceau invite experts to provide insights into the complicated intersection of issues that arise in thinking about animal law, violence, mass incarceration, and social change. Advocates for enhancing the legal status of animals could learn a great deal from the history and successes (and failures) of other social movements. Likewise, social change lawyers, as well as animal advocates, might learn lessons from each other about the interconnections of oppression as they work to achieve liberation for all. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.Call Number: K3620 .C37 2022ISBN: 9781108911955Publication Date: 2022-05-13
Ecological Vulnerability by
Humans are responsible for biodiversity loss in many related and sometimes conflicting ways. Human-wildlife conflict, commonly defined as any negative interaction between people and wildlife, is a primary contributor to wildlife extinction and a manifestation of the destructive relationship that people have with wildlife. The author presents this 'wicked' problem in a social and legal context and demonstrates that legal institutions structurally deny human-wildlife conflict, while exacerbating conflict, promoting values consistent with individual autonomy, and ignoring the interconnected vulnerabilities shared by human and non-human species alike. It is the use of international and state law that sheds light on existing conflicts, including dingo conflict on K'Gari-Fraser Island in Australia, elephant conflict in Northern Botswana, and the global wildlife trade contributing to COVID-19. This book presents a critical analysis of human-wildlife conflict and its governance, to guide lawyers, scientists and conservations alike in the transformation of the management of human-wildlife conflict.
Call Number: K3525 .W66 2022ISBN: 1316511995Publication Date: 2022-06-23
Farm Animal Welfare Law by
This book introduces the various aspects of international farm animal protection and wildlife conservation through the lenses of food safety and environmental protection law. Bite-sized chapters focus on a wide range of topics from agrobiodiversity, fishing and aquaculture to pollinators and pesticides, soil management, industrial animal production and transportation, as well as international food trade. Animal welfare and biodiversity conservation sit at the core of the selected chapters, each one providing real-world examples to make the complex field easy to understand. Current developments including food safety modernization, block chain, and COVID-19 considerations, are addressed head-on. Farm Animal Welfare Law provides a primer for law school courses and masters' programs, for practitioners, advocates, and animal enthusiasts alike. Through its emphasis on sustainable food production, this book offers a cutting-edge selection of evolving topics at the heart of the pertinent discourse.
Call Number: K3620 .F36 2024ISBN: 9780367684778Publication Date: 2023-05-12
Justice for Animals by
A "brilliant" (Chicago Review of Books), "elegantly written, and compelling" (National Review) new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum. Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting, habitat destruction, or neglect of the companion animals that people purport to love, animals suffer injustice and horrors at our hands every day. The world needs an ethical awakening, a consciousness-raising movement of international proportions. In Justice for Animals, one of the world's most renowned philosophers and humanists, Martha C. Nussbaum, provides "the most important book on animal ethics written to date" (Thomas I. White, author of In Defense of Dolphins). From dolphins to crows, elephants to octopuses, Nussbaum examines the entire animal kingdom, showcasing the lives of animals with wonder, awe, and compassion to understand how we can create a world in which human beings are truly friends of animals, not exploiters or users. All animals should have a shot at flourishing in their own way. Humans have a collective duty to face and solve animal harm. An urgent call to action and a manual for change, Nussbaum's groundbreaking theory directs politics and law to help us meet our ethical responsibilities as no book has done before.
Call Number: HV4708 .N87 2022ISBN: 9781982102524Publication Date: 2023-01-03
