Animal Ethics and Animal Law

Andrew Linzey is director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and has been a member of the faculty of theology in the University of Oxford for twenty-eight years. Clair Linzey is deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She is a professor of animal theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation.

Introduction: Law, Ethics, and the Special Status of Animals By Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey Part I: Historical Perspectives Chapter :1 John Philoponus's Presentation of Animal Rationality and the Law By Oliver B. Langworthy Chapter 2: The Gallinger Bill, a Bill to Regulate Animal Experimentation in the District of Columbia: Forerunner of the 1966 Laboratory Animal Welfare Act By Robyn Hederman Chapter 3: The Charitable Status of English Antivivisection: How It Was Lost and Could Be Regained By A. W. H. Bates Chapter 4: The "Glass Walls" Theory: A History and Discussion of the Guidelines and Laws concerning Nonhuman Animals in the North American Film Industry By Rebecca Stanton Chapter 5: Bringing Animal Cruelty Investigation into Mainstream Law Enforcement in the United States By Randall Lockwood Part II: Ethical-Legal Issues Chapter 6 From Ethics into Law By David Favre Chapter 7: From Morally Relevant Features to Relevant Legal Protection: A Critique of the Legal Concept of Animals as "Property" By Frances M. C. Robinson Chapter 8: The Nonhuman Rights Project's Struggles to Gain Legal Rights for Nonhuman Animals By Steven M. Wise Chapter 9: Animals as Quasi-Property/Persons By Angela Fernandez Chapter 10: Housing Rights and Forever Homes: Reforms to Make Our Cities More Livable for Our Companion Animals and Ourselves By Solana Joy Phillips Chapter 11: A Legal Critique of the Putative Educational Value of Zoos By Alice Collinson Chapter 12: Our Costly Obsession: Animal Welfare, Plastic Pollution, and New Directions for Change By Mariah Rayfield Beck Chapter 13: Why Anti-Cruelty Laws Are Not Enough By Matthew J. Webber Part III: Case Studies Chapter 14: The European Union: Make Animal Law Work-The Direct Effect Principle in EU Law as an Instrument for Improving Animal Welfare By Lena Hehemann Chapter 15: US and New Zealand: Farmed Animals and the Rule of Law By Danielle Duffield Chapter 16: Africa: Crimes against Nonhumanity? The Case of the African Elephant By Ruaidhri D. Wilson Chapter 17: India: Whither Bovinity? Hindu Dharma, the Indian State, and Conflicting Moral Perspectives over Cow Protection By Kenneth Valpey Chapter 18: United Kingdom and Ireland: Animal Law Compared By Maureen O'Sullivan and Stephanie O'Flynn About the Contributors