Articles
| Title Sort descending | Author | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Chartered Institute of Environmental Health Guidance on the Interpretation of the Pet Animals Act 1951 | Chartered Institute of Environmental Health | Guidance to local authorities from the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health on the interpretation of the Pet Animals Act 1951 and, in particular, the legality of temporary pet fairs |
| Charting the Growth of Animal Law in Education | Peter Sankoff | Although the extent to which the animal law movement has succeeded in generating meaningful change for animals remains a subject of debate, one thing about the movement cannot be disputed: it is growing at a remarkable pace, both in the United States and abroad. For one thing, there are more people working as animal lawyers and studying to earn this informal classification than ever before. Where twenty years ago individuals practicing or trying to acquire knowledge in this area operated in isolation, today's enthusiast can attend animal law conferences, participate in moot court simulations and chat with like-minded individuals on animal law related websites. Most importantly, for the student undertaking the study of law in 2008, there now exists a very strong possibility that the institution they attend offers a course in animal law or will do so in the near future. |
| China Case Studies: #4. Live Food for the Tigers | Song Wei | A short case study form China about the practice of feeding captured animal like tiger, live goats and cows as entertainment. |
| China Case Studies: 1. Intentional Cruelty to Zoo Bears | Song Wei | A short case study of what happened when an individual harmed several bears at a public zoo in China. |
| China Case Studies: 2. Wolves Escape from a Zoo | Song Wei | A short case study about the killing of wolves that escaped from a zoo in China. |
| China Case Studies: 2. Wolves Escape from a Zoo | Song Wei | A short case study about the killing of wolves that escaped from a zoo in China. |
| China Case Studies: 3. Bear Bile from Caged Moon Bears | Song Wei | This is a short case study about the issue of using caged bears to extract bile in China. |
| China Case Studies: 4. Live Food for the Tigers | Song Wei | A short case study form China about the practice of feeding a captured animal like tiger, live goats and cows as entertainment. |
| China Case Studies: 5. Water Filled Meat | Song Wei | A case study from China about the practice of adding water to animals before they are sold, to increase weight. |
| China Case Studies: 5. Water Filled Meat | Song Wei | A case study from China about the practice of adding water to animals before they are sold, to increase weight. |
| Chinese Endangered Species at the Brink of Extinction: A Critical Look at the Current Law and Policy in China | Charu Sharma | The People's Republic of China harbors a vast number of plant and animal species, but those species have long been threatened by a thriving illegal trade. China became a signatory to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in 1981 and has since passed a number of wildlife protection laws and regulations in an effort to curb the illegal trade and begin revitalizing some of its nearly-extinct animal populations. This article critically examines China's legislation and judicial decisions, concluding that much work remains to be done to protect endangered species in China. |
| Chronic Wasting Disease In Domesticated Elk | Colorado Department of Agriculture | This document provides a short overview of the disease cycle and transmission of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)among the elk herd in Colorado. It also outlines the steps the State of Colorado is taking to ensure detection of the disease in wild and domestic herds of bovine animals. |
| Citizen Standing to Enforce Anti-Cruelty Laws by Obtaining Injunctions: The North Carolina Experience | William A. Reppy, Jr. | North Carolina law authorizes citizen standing for the enforcement of anti-cruelty laws, thus supplementing criminal prosecution by means not used in any other state. Citizens, cities, counties, and animal welfare organizations can enforce animal cruelty laws through a civil injunction. This article explores the various amendments to North Carolina’s civil enforcement legislation and the present law’s strengths and weaknesses. The Author suggests an ideal model anti-cruelty civil remedies statute. |
| COALITIONS IN THE JUNGLE: ADVANCING ANIMAL WELFARE THROUGH CHALLENGES TO CONCENTRATION IN THE MEAT INDUSTRY | Kamila Lis | The meat processing conglomerates that currently control the majority of the market share in the meatpacking industry are responsible for its most systemic animal abuses. Increased concentration has enabled these larger processors to dictate animal treatment standards maintained by meat producers, most of whom have caved to economic pressure and moved their animals from small farms into Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. Animal welfare proponents have failed to adequately challenge the concentration of the meat industry and in 2012 have yet to fully explore strategies made available by the Packers & Stockyards Act of 1921 (PSA). This Article proposes that a coalition between animal welfare activists and small meat producers, who have yet to be absorbed or driven out of business by the meatpacking giants, could effectively attack the concentration of the meat industry. First, animal welfare activists should work with small producers to expose to the public the negative human externalities associated with market concentration, such as intensive farming techniques that directly compromise consumer health. Second, the animal welfare movement should harness its legal experience to encourage small meat producers to pursue PSA-based civil suits aimed at challenging the power of the meatpacking conglomerates. |
| Cold Feet: Addressing the Effect of Human Activity in Antarctica on Terrestrial Wildlife | Andrew J. Koper | On the fringes of the frozen continent, penguins, seals, seabirds, and simple vegetation have gained a foothold. Humans have entered their frozen realm as a competitor for space along the coast, the only portion of the continent that can foster life. Humans and animals interact regularly through scientific activities and tourism. This paper will examine the extent of those interactions, as well as some of the negative impacts that human presence has had in Antarctica. Such impacts can range from an oil spill of a science program’s supply ship, to a tourist knocking over a camera tripod onto a penguin chick, crippling it so that it was attacked and had to be euthanized. This Note discusses the current management regime for Antarctic living resources: the Antarctic Treaty System. The Note focuses on when the ATS fails, and when those failures result in harm to Antarctic terrestrial wildlife. |
| Collection and Summary of Principal Animal Laws for D.C. | Hayden Wetzel | The page includes a textual summary of the history of animal control in the Corporations of Washington, Georgetown, and the County of Washington, which became collectively known as the District of Columbia in 1871. A thorough collection of the chronology of animal control laws from 1791 to about 1940 is also attached. This includes a complete list of all laws related to animals for this period. As noted by the author, animal control tended evolve among two tracks: (1) farm animals estrays and procedures for boarding and/or returning them to their owners; and (2) dogs, which were more or less viewed as a health concerns and financial drains for local government. Enactment of anti-cruelty laws did not occur until the late nineteenth century. |
| Combating Animal Cruelty with Environmental Law Tactics | De Anna Hill | Many individuals and citizen groups view federal and state anti-cruelty statutes as inadequate in protecting animals and in providing sufficient remedies. Unlike animal cruelty statutes like the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), many of the federal environmental statutes provide citizen suit provisions or otherwise allow interested parties to sue for enforcement. Citizen suit provisions in environmental statutes increase accessibility of the courts to the public. There are many instances where citizens groups have filed federal environmental citizen suits against federal agencies and private facilities that would be considered by many to be actively involved in or to have facilitated acts of animal cruelty. Animal protectionists have attempted and continue to attempt to further protection of animals by filing or supporting suits under environmental law against federal agencies and private facilitators of animal cruelty. |
| Commentary: Bermudez v. Hanan | John Ensminger | This article provides commentary on the case of Bermudez v. Hanan, 2013 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 4397, 2013 NY Slip Op 51610(U), which concerned dog bite liability for a therapy dog. |
| Community Cats: Changing the Legal Paradigm for the Management of So-Called “Pests” | Joan E. Schaffner | Recognizing that the science, policy, and law involving the different animal “pests” are unique, the approach to changing the traditional paradigm is largely the same. Although the debate continues surrounding free-roaming cats, the approach of cat advocates to turn the tide away from deeply entrenched lethal methods of animal control provides an interesting and useful case study on how to alter the political, scientific, and legal paradigm in favor of respecting animal life for all animals deemed “pests.” |
| COMPANION ANIMAL | Sebastien Gay | This Article presents a theory of the economic value of companion animal life. Under the existing United States torts regime, the standard damages award available to an owner for an action arising from a companion animal death is its fair market value. This approach implicitly assumes that pet owners are irrational, given that they generally invest more in their pets than the animal’s fair market value. This Article suggests that, based on an economic model that conceptualizes companion animals as an employee-investment hybrid, the value of a companion animal is higher than its fair market value. This model has implications for economic damages calculations in wrongful death lawsuits and for companion animal welfare. |
| Companion Animals: An Examination of Their Legal Classification in Italy and the Impact on their Welfare | Annamaria Passantino | Italy's State-Regions Agreement on Companion Animal Welfare and Pet Therapy introduced important new measures aimed at reducing the numbers of stray animals, such as the use of microchips for an official dog identification system and the creation of a computerised data bank. The Author, after having analyzed the legal status of animals under the current system and discussed the idea of extending legal personhood to such animals, considers the law for the current valuation of companion animals. Finally, the Author promotes the idea that there is a legal/rational basis for changing the way that companion animals should be valued by the legal system (such as Agreement) and recommends the adoption of principles/guidelines for the care of pet evaluate these aspects of the Agreement. |
| Comparative National Animal Welfare Laws | Charles F. Hall and David S. Favre | This paper compares the strengths and weaknesses of the animal welfare legislation in four countries: Portugal, the Philippines, Switzerland, and Taiwan. Following the discussion is a chart that illustrates the main components of each piece of legislation, showing how each defines terms and to which animals the requisite legislation applies. |
| Complementing Legislation: The Role of Cultural Practices in the Conservation of Wildlife--Examples from Ghana | Shadrack Ahrin | Despite attempts to modernize Ghana’s wildlife laws, they remain largely ineffective and inadequate. However, in the absence of adequate wildlife legislation, the various cultural values in Africa have accepted the task of conserving Africa’s wildlife |
| Compromise & the Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare | Animal People (Editorial) | This artlicle discusses the history of the Universal Declaration and recent attempts to modify the Declaration. |
| Conference Summary: "The Moral and Legal Status of Non-Human Animals" | Portugal Center for Animal Law and Ethics | The document is a summary of each speaker's presentation at a Conference held at Lisbon University Law School. |