Globalization and Animal Law provides a detailed analysis of international and comparative animal law focusing on the impact of the globalized economy on animal law. The rise of the globalized economy has rendered an even more profound change in the relationship between humans and other animals than the ancient progression from hunter-gatherer to agricultural society. In today’s global markets, multinational corporations exploit the economic value of animals on an unprecedented scale.
The philosophical and legal notions that animals are mere unfeeling machines or pieces of property, although more or less taken for granted for centuries, have been challenged, if not burst asunder, in recent decades (in law, moral philosophy and cognitive and other sciences), and regulation of the treatment of animals in agriculture, experimentation, entertainment and other areas has begun to make substantial inroads in national and international law. In light of this growing awareness, the author in this book lucidly explicates the sorts of legal rules that affect the global animal marketplace by describing a wide range of domestic and international laws relating to the treatment of animals.
What’s in this book:
Among the issues covered are the following:
- contemporary philosophical thought on the relationship between humans and animals;
- recent scientific research relating to cognitive and other abilities of animals;
- legal issues relating to factory farming and animal slaughter operations;
- legal protection of animals during transport;
- regulatory schemes on animal experimentation;
- laws on the use of animals in entertainment;
- laws on protection of companion animals;
- regulation of trade in endangered species;
- international trade issues relating to animals, including consideration of the provisions of GATT relevant to animal protection and the seminal WTO/GATT decisions in the Tuna/Dolphin, Shrimp/Turtle, Tuna Labeling and EU/Seal Products cases;
- constitutional protection for the interests of animals;
- intellectual property law issues relating to animals;
- efforts to have the legal “personhood” of certain animals judicially recognized; and
- what the future may hold for animal law in the global economy.
Representative norms in existing animal protection laws are analyzed and critiqued, illustrating the diverse approaches taken by different countries and jurisdictions, including Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, the EU, Germany, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland, the UK, and state and federal laws of the US. Numerous international treaties and conventions are also covered, including the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, the CITES Convention, the European Convention for the Protection of Animals Kept for Farming Purposes, the European Patent Convention, the GATT Treaty, the TRIPS Agreement and the Universal Copyright Convention.
How this will help you:
It is not difficult to grasp, given the continuing increases in production, consumption and use of animals and animal products worldwide, that legal initiatives in this often emotional and acrimonious area of law are frequently contentious and hard fought. But this is really just the dawn of animal law, which has only recently become recognized as an important cutting-edge topic. In light of these rapid developments, this book serves as a guidepost in contributing to the continuing development and understanding of this law, clearly laying out the contours and boundaries of existing animal laws in our global economy, and allowing legal educators, concerned lawyers and policymakers to teach, formulate proposals, argue cases and defenses, and secure a firm purchase on future trends and developments in animal law.
Features:
- provides comprehensive coverage and analysis of issues in international and comparative animal law
- analyzes national, regional and international laws relating to the use of animals in agriculture, animal experimentation and entertainment
- examines legal issues relating to the treatment of companion animals
- explores and analyzes the impact of laws on international trade on the treatment and protection of animals
- analyzes constitutional provisions on the protection and legal status of animals
- investigates animal-related issues of intellectual property law
- provides broad coverage of animal laws from countries around the world ranging from Europe to Australasia, South America, South Asia and North America
- contains broad coverage of the animal laws of the EU
- considers major international treaties, conventions and agreements bearing on the treatment of and protection of animals
- examines intellectual property issues relating to animals
- studies the efforts to have certain animals judicially determined to be legal “persons”
Benefits:
- provides animal law professors and instructors a comprehensive course of study for international and comparative animal law classes
- contains broad consideration of issues of international and comparative animal law of value for animal law advocates, legal practitioners, legislators, decision makers and academics
- provides animal law advocates, legal practitioners, legislators, decision makers and academics thorough consideration of the impact of globalization and modern economic realities on animal law
- includes abundant source material on international and comparative animal law for use by animal law advocates, legal practitioners, legislators, decision makers and academics
- benefits international trade practitioners with analysis of major international trade issues relating to animals and animal products
- explores the different ways animal law issues are being treated around the world providing animal law advocates, legislators and decision makers with ideas for future advocacy and legislative proposals
- provides moral philosophic background for consideration of issues of animal law and for legal advocacy
- presents recent scientific discoveries on the cognitive and other abilities of animals that can be used for analysis and critique of present laws, as well as for advocacy and formulation of future initiatives
- analyzes global animal law issues from a compassionate viewpoint
- considers the future of animal law and advocacy from a global perspective
- provides ideas and recommendations on the way forward in protecting and advocating for animals
