Animals Property & the Law by Gary Francione

Animals Property & the Law by Gary Francione

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Asks why has the law failed to protect animals from exploitation? Exploring different facets of this issue, this title discusses the history of the treatment of animals, anticruelty statutes, vivisection, the Federal Animal Welfare Act, and specific cases such as the controversial injury of anaesthetized baboons at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Animals Property & the Law by Gary Francione

How to balance the failure of the legal system to protect animals with its professed recognition of animal rights

"Gary Francione's important contribution to the history of ideas places animal exploitation in its legal, philosophical, and economic contextA thorough, scholarly, and much-needed analysis that should be considered seriously even by those who disagree with the notion of animal rights."
—William A. J. Watson, University of Georgia

Gary L. Francione is Professor of Law and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach Scholar of Law at Rutgers University Law School, Newark. He is also Co-director of the Rutgers Animal Rights Law Center.

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ISBN 13 9781566392846
ISBN 10 1566392845
Title Animals Property & the Law
Author Gary Francione
Series Ethics And Action
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.
Year published 1995-04-28
Number of pages 274
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