Cass R. Sunstein, University of Chicago: Introduction: What Are
Animal Rights?
Part I: Current Debates
1: Stephen M. Wise, Vermont Law School: Animal Rights, One Step At
A Time
2: Richard A. Posner, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals,
Seventh Circuit, and Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago
Law School: Animal Rights: Legal, Philosophical, and Pragmatic
Perspectives
3: Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, University
Center for Human Values, Princeton University: Ethics Beyond
Species and Beyond Instincts: A Reply to Richard Posner
4: Cora Diamond, Kenan Professor and University Professor Emerita
at the University of Virginia: Eating Meat and Eating People
5: Gary L. Francione, Professor of Law and Nicholas de B.
Katzenbach Distinguished Scholar of Law and Philosophy, Rutgers
University School of Law--Newark: Taking Animal Interests
Seriously
6: Richard A. Epstein, James Parker Hall Distinguished Professor of
Law, University of Chicago Law School, Peter and Kirsten Senior
Fellow, The Hoover Institution: Animals As Objects, or Subjects, of
Rights
7: James Rachels, University Professor of Philosophy, University of
Alabama at Birmingham: Drawing Lines
8: Lesley J. Rogers and Gisela Kaplan, both Professors of
Neuroscience and Animal Behavior at the University of New England,
Australia: All Animals Are Not Equal: The Interface Between
Scientific Knowledge and Legislation for Animal Rights
Part II: New Directions
9: David J. Wolfson, senior associate at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley &
McCloy LLP, Lecturer in Law Harvard Law School, and adjunct
professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and Mariann
Sullivan, Deputy Chief Court Attorney at the New York State
Appellate Division, First Department, former chair of the animal
law committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New
York: Foxes in the Hen House: Animals, Agribusiness, and the
Law
10: David Favre: Professor, Michigan State University DCL College
of Law: A New Property Status for Animals: Equitable
Self-Ownership
11: Cass R. Sunstein, University of Chicago: Can Animals Sue?
12: Catharine A. MacKinnon, Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law,
University of Michigan Law School, and long-term visitor,
University of Chicago Law School: Of Mice and Men: A Feminist
Fragment on Animal Rights
13: Elizabeth Anderson, Professor of Philosophy and Women's
Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Animal Rights and the
Values of Nonhuman Life
14: Martha C. Nussbaum, University of Chicago: "Beyond Compassion
and Humanity": Justice for Non-Human Animals
Cass R. Sunstein is Karl Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor
at the University of Chicago and Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund
Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. Together,
they previously edited Clones and Cloning. They are frequent
contributors to popular journals and newspapers. Sunstein's recent
books include Why Societies Need Dissent and Designing Democracy;
Nussbaum
is recently author of Upheavals of Thought and For Love of Country.
"Eloquent essays."--The Atlantic Monthly
"...a wide range of thought-provoking responses....an accessible
survey of the major ideas in this intellectually challenging
debate."--The Federal Lawyer
"This collection of essays provides a fine introduction to a number
of difficult and controversial questions. It is particularly strong
in its treatment of the philosophical and legal issues that
surround animal rights."--Science
"These 14 skillfully edited, high quality, and nicely balanced
essays present a wide range of legal, political, and ethical
perspectives on animal rights, and include some well-arranged
sequences of competing arguments.... Recommended."--Choice
"Our society is in the midst of a major debate over animal rights,
our duties, and the legal status of animals. This new compilation
of essays has profoundly contributed to this debate.... Animal
Rights is an incredible resource introducing readers to the basic
issues in animal rights and highlighting directions animal
advocates may go..."--Animal Law
"An important and thought-provoking work. Sunstein and Nussbaum
illuminate issues that have the power to unite or divide those of
us who care deeply about animals. By fostering better
understanding, their book can help light the pathway to common
ground."--Kathryn S. Fuller, President, World Wildlife Fund-US
"Several chapters...discuss political and legal changes that could
drastically improve the lives of animals without giving them rights
or personhood. ...This is a book political decision makers should
read."--The Law and Politics Book Review
"Eloquent essays."--The Atlantic Monthly
"...a wide range of thought-provoking responses....an accessible
survey of the major ideas in this intellectually challenging
debate."--The Federal Lawyer
"Our society is in the midst of a major debate over animal rights,
our duties, and the legal status of animals. This new compilation
of essays has profoundly contributed to this debate.... Animal
Rights is an incredible resource introducing readers to the basic
issues in animal rights and highlighting directions animal
advocates may go..."--Animal Law
"This collection of essays provides a fine introduction to a number
of difficult and controversial questions. It is particularly strong
in its treatment of the philosophical and legal issues that
surround animal rights."--Science
"These 14 skillfully edited, high quality, and nicely balanced
essays present a wide range of legal, political, and ethical
perspectives on animal rights, and include some well-arranged
sequences of competing arguments.... Recommended."--Choice
"An important and thought-provoking work. Sunstein and Nussbaum
illuminate issues that have the power to unite or divide those of
us who care deeply about animals. By fostering better
understanding, their book can help light the pathway to common
ground."--Kathryn S. Fuller, President, World Wildlife Fund-US
"Happily, the emerging field of animal rights has reached a point
mature enough to call for a wide-angle overview of its many facets,
with carefully chosen contributions from its founders and most
accomplished activists to the writings of its most
thought-provoking philosophers. This superbly conceived collection
of essays not only meets that need but explores the deepest
connections between the protection of non-human species and the
frontiers of human rights.
Edited with grace by Cass Sunstein and Martha Nussbaum, two leading
scholars who contribute their own brilliant chapters to this
seminal volume, this is a veritable hitchhiker's guide to the
galaxy of
animal rights and animal welfare. Anyone genuinely concerned about
the creatures who are our kin will have to read this book from
cover to cover."--Laurence H. Tribe, Tyler Professor of
Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School
"An impressive collection: essential reading for anyone interested
in the debates over animal rights, and indeed for anyone who cares
about how humans treat animals."--George Pitcher, Professor of
Philosophy, Emeritus, Princeton University
"Edited by a distinguished legal scholar and one of the most
important philosophers of our day, this volume offers a remarkably
fresh collection of essays exploring our relationship--moral,
legal, social, and epistemological--to nonhuman animals. A creative
tension emerges from the exchange of competing and often ingenious
arguments. Readers will profit from a wealth of empirical data
about animals' capacities and existing practices and institutions
of animal
use. The book is perhaps most distinctive in its examination of
animals in relation to the law, several authors providing concrete
suggestions for legal reform.
Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions is an excellent
choice for law school and applied ethics courses." --David
DeGrazia, author of Taking Animals Seriously
"Several chapters...discuss political and legal changes that could
drastically improve the lives of animals without giving them rights
or personhood. ...This is a book political decision makers should
read."--The Law and Politics Book Review
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