Catching the Second Wave of Animal Law
Publication Type: |
Conference Proceedings |
Year of Publication: |
2010 |
Authors: |
P. Waldau |
Publication/Journal: |
The Future of Animal Law |
Keywords: |
animal law, conference, human-animals studies |
Abstract:
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 decades out into the future, which takes an altogether different imagination than does looking only at possible projects in the coming years. To meet this need, in this paper I employ what I call three lenses—a generalization, a warning about social movements, and an imaginative image to help us see the terrain we walk as ethical creatures.