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Chattel or Child: The Liminal Status of Companion Animals in Society and Law

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2019
Companion animals in the U.S. are increasingly regarded as members of the family with whom one may share a strong emotional bond. However, despite an evolving social construction that has elevated their status in the dominant culture, companion animals ...
Nicole R. Pallotta
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Genesis of a doctrine : animal as non-human natural person

open access: yesDerecho Animal, 2019
As the first French legal work dedicated specifically to the legal personality of animals, this book lays the foundations for a non-human natural personhood.
Caroline Regad
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PERSONHOOD, ANIMALS, AND THE LAW [PDF]

open access: yesThink, 2013
The idea that all the entities in the world may be, for legal and moral purposes, divided into the two categories of ‘persons’ and ‘things’ comes down to us from the tradition of Roman law. In the law, a ‘person’ is essentially the subject of rights and obligations, while a thing may be owned as property. In ethics, a person is an object of respect, to
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First Summer Course in Animal Law in Scandinavia hosted by Aarhus University

open access: yesDerecho Animal, 2018
Last July the first summer course in Animal Law took place at Aarhus University, Scandinavia, one of Europe’s most renowned universities. The course was created and lectured by Sacha Lucassen (MA Animal Law and Society, UAB - 5th Edition) and welcomed ...
Sacha Lucassen
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Animals and the Impact of Trade Law and Policy: A Global Animal Law Question [PDF]

open access: yesTransnational Environmental Law, 2020
AbstractThere is a critical research gap regarding the trade and animal welfare interface: we do not know, empirically, what the impact of trade on animal welfare is. This gap exists, in part, as a result of the paternalism of international trade law and the underdevelopment of global animal law.
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Policing Farm Animal Welfare in Federated Nations: The Problem of Dual Federalism in Canada and the USA

open access: yesAnimals, 2013
In recent European animal welfare statutes, human actions injurious to animals are new “offences” articulated as an injury to societal norms in addition to property damage. A crime is foremost a violation of a community moral standard.
Terry L. Whiting
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Review: Saskia Stucki, One Rights: Human and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene

open access: yesJournal of Animal Law, Ethics and One Health, 2023
Animal rights law is in need of an update. Many of its central theories were developed over 20 years ago, meaning that they fail to take account of issues that, in today’s society, are inextricably linked to the question of animal rights.
Eva Bernet Kempers
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Hyperosmotic stress‐induced redistribution of pre‐mRNA cleavage factor I subunits is associated with shifts in alternative polyadenylation

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Hyperosmotic stress triggers the relocation of the CFIm complex from the nucleus to the cytoplasm. This shift creates a nuclear ‘stoichiometric bottleneck’, limiting CFIm availability for mRNA processing. Consequently, specific mRNAs like NUDT21 and DICER1 undergo targeted 3′UTR shortening, demonstrating how spatial protein dynamics drive rapid ...
Hitomi Soumiya   +2 more
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Brighton v RSPCA NSW: Appeals and Lessons Four Years On

open access: yesAnimals
Animal law has the potential to initiate improvements for animal wellbeing. However, this largely depends on how effectively the law bridges the legal chasm between animal welfare and animal suffering, a chasm the authors refer to as the welfare gap ...
Kathryn Jurd, Sophie Riley
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Evaluating the effect of γ‐oryzanol on MASLD pathology using a medaka fish model

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
This study explores a liver disease called MASLD, which is increasing worldwide and can lead to serious damage. Researchers used medaka fish instead of rodents to test a food compound, γ‐oryzanol. Fish fed this compound had less liver fat and healthier gut bacteria.
Yukako Ito   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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