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Animal Rights Theory from the Legal and Bioethical Perspectives [PDF]
Based on the alterations of new scientific paradigms that sustain the demand for a relationship between humans and non-human animals founded on bioethics, this paper seeks to highlight the urgency in the creation of a new legal status for animals in ...
Edna Cardozo Dias, Alvaro Angelo Salles
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Connecting moral status to proper legal status [PDF]
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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The moral and legal status of the human foetus : a critical analysis from an Islamic perspective [PDF]
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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Towards Species-Agnostic Legal Reasoning? Animal Rightsholding and the Legal Grammar of Moral Status
This paper argues that species-agnostic legal reasoning should refuse species as a dispositive shortcut without becoming species-blind. It develops a legal grammar that moves from anti-speciesist critique to specification: species may orient legal inquiry as defeasible evidence, but law must test what its categories reveal, conceal, and normalize.
Junqueira, Robert
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Animals as a subject of registered stocks [PDF]
The adoption of the law that has introduced non-possessory lien securing the movable property and rights (colloquially called Act on registered pledge), allowed the commitment of animals, through registration in the register of stocks in the Business ...
Pajtić Bojan L.
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International Legal Protection of Animals: Problems and Prospects
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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La représentation des individus d’une espèce animale devant le juge français
The animal is protected by French criminal law against abuses and cruelty. To give effect to this protection, the Code of Criminal Procedure allows animal welfare associations to exercice civil action to defend the interests of animals victims of such ...
Lucille Boisseau-Sowinski
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The legal status of animals: a source of their disaster vulnerability [PDF]
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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Law 2015-177 of February 16, 2015, modifying the French Civil Code, defined animals as « living beings doted with sensibility », which marked an evolution in French Law.
Cédric Riot
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The article analyses and assesses the line of judicial decisions of the Supreme Administrative Court regarding a temporary seizure of an animal from its owner or guardian following a breach of the obligation to treat it humanely.
Jerzy Stelmasiak
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