Category «Animals and the Law»

How redefining just one word could strip the Endangered Species Act’s ability to protect vital habitat

Dr. Mariah Meek asserts that it wouldn’t make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down, or to bar killing endangered salmon while allowing a dam to dry out their habitat. But that’s exactly what the Trump administration is proposing to do by changing how one word in the Endangered Species Act is interpreted: harm. The definition change is a quiet way to gut the Endangered Species Act.

Subjects: Animals and the Law, Climate Change, Environmental Law, Government Resources, Legal Research, Legislative

Animal Rights on the Road to Personhood

Ken Strutin’s paper addresses a seminal issue that has been an integral part of the personal and collective ethic of diverse peoples around the world. As Strutin states, when life is classified biologically, it is also defined legally. Thus is formed the tension between the natural and juridical worlds. Whether animal rights can ever fall within the ambit of personhood will depend as much on the findings of cognitive science as on the evolution of legal remedies. Indeed, the foundations for nonhuman personhood are being laid in a growing body of litigation and scholarship at the borderlands of science and civil justice.

Subjects: Animals and the Law, Ethics, Human Rights, Legal Ethics, Legal Research

Features – Laboratory Animals: An Executive, Legislative, Judicial Narrative and Research Guide

Laboratory Animals: An Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Narrative & Research Guide

By Deborah Paulus-Jagric

Subjects: Animals and the Law, Features

Features – The Domestic Cat and the Law: A Guide to Available Resources

The Domestic Cat and the Law: A Guide to Available Resources

By Stephen Young

Subjects: Animals and the Law, Features