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CHANGING THE LEGAL STATUS OF ANIMALS: LEGISLATION AND LITIGATION [PDF]
TEME, 2022 This paper addresses the issue of the legal status of non-human animals and the possibility of changing it from the status of things or property, to the status of non-things, or better, sentient beings. Key arguments for the change of their status are discussed, including the argument from marginal cases, and the scientific evidence indicating that ...
Todorovic, Zorana
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HOW COMMUNITY ATTITUDES CAN STRENGTHEN ARGUMENTS FOR CHANGING THE LEGAL STATUS OF ANIMALS [PDF]
Society Register, 2020 The current legal categorisation of animals as property has its historical roots in Roman Law. The long history of this status prompts one to wonder whether it reflects modern community attitudes. It is, however, difficult to answer this question, as there is a dearth of empirical data on attitudes towards the legal status of animals.
Shyam, Geeta
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Connecting moral status to proper legal status [PDF]
, 2023 This chapter entertains three proposals as to the connection between an animal’s moral status and what legal status it ought to have. The first proposal is this strong claim: that an act wrongs an animal is a justification for criminalizing it.
Sachs, Benjamin
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Moral and Legal Status of Animals: Why Animals Should Have Legal Rights [PDF]
, 2016 In the presented thesis I defend the claim that all sentient animals should have legal rights. The arguments I offer in support of this claim are based on the moral and legal status of animals. I try to show that all sentient animals are ends in themselves for the reason that they are beings with their own interests, and their capacity for having ...
Jalagania, Beka
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The moral and legal status of the human foetus : a critical analysis from an Islamic perspective [PDF]
, 2008 This thesis aims to ascertain what the status of the human foetus should be in Libyan law where it is currently inadequately determined. Specifically, is the foetus a person, a type of property, or something else, and is humanity significant for such a ...
Biggs, Hazel +2 more
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Legal status of pets and pretium affectionis [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Nišu, 2020 In domestic legal theory, as well as in judicial practice of the Republic of Serbia, there is a widely accepted standpoint that animals are property items, i.e.
Radulović Srđan
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The Concept of the Normative Dereification of an Animal in Polish Law
Studia Iuridica Lublinensia, 2021 The subject of the article is normative dereification, which was enacted in the Polish legal system on the basis of the provisions of the Act of 21 August 1997 on animal protection.
Grzegorz Lubeńczuk
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International Legal Protection of Animals: Problems and Prospects
Московский журнал международного права, 2021 INTRODUCTION. The purpose of this work is to identify the main problems of modern international legal protection of animals and the theoretical justification of the need to change their legal status (regime).
S. I. Tsygantsova
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An ethicist's commentary on raising the legal status of animals. [PDF]
Can Vet J, 2006 Rollin BE.
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The legal status of animals: a source of their disaster vulnerability [PDF]
Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 2021 The 2019–20 Australian bushfire season had a devastating impact on animals. A report sponsored by the World Wide Fund for Nature (2020) estimates that 3 billion native wild animals were affected by the bushfires, with several species now closer to extinction.
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