Catching the Second Wave of Animal Law

How do we go about our attempt to see the future of animal law? We can speak rather specifically, of course, about the near-term projects on which we will focus in the coming few years. But what I’m after in this paper is our need to assess the possible directions and shape of animal law […]

Animal Law

Animal law is one of the most prominent of the disciplines in the emerging field of human-animals studies. This article describes this new field and then outlines some of the most basic features of existing law as it impacts nonhuman animals.