Law and the question of the animal a critical jurisprudence /

Law and the question of the animal a critical jurisprudence / [electronic resource] : edited by Yoriko Otomo and Ed Mussawir. - Abingdon, Oxon [U.K.] ; New York : Routledge, 2013. - viii, 196 p. : ill. - Law, justice and ecology .

"A GlassHouse book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Law's animal / Ed Mussawir and Yoriko Otomo -- The animal protagonist : representing "the animal" in law and cinema / Connal Parsley -- Witness demeanour as real evidence : mechanistic philosophy of bodies without minds / Piyel Haldar -- Inventing animals / Cressida Limon -- Chimpanzees in court : what difference does it make / Cimea Bevilacqua -- The jurisprudential meaning of the animal : a critique of the subject of rights in the laws of Scienter and negligence / Ed Mussawir -- Dressing the sow and the legal subjectivation of the non-human animal / Victoria Ridler -- Whipping to win : measured violence, delegated sovereignty, and the privatised domination of non human life / Dinesh Wadiwel -- Law in the marketplace / Marc Trabsky -- The normativity of an animal atmosphere / Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos -- Species, scarcity, and the secular state / Yoriko Otomo.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780203071366 (electronic bk.)




Animal rights--Philosophy.
Animal welfare--Law and legislation.
Animal rights--Moral and ethical aspects.
Animals--Law and legislation.


Electronic books.

K3620 / .L39 2013

345/.0287