Cass Sunstein and Martha Nussbaum bring together an all-star cast of contributors to explore the legal and political issues that underlie the campaign for animal rights and the opposition to it. Addressing ethical questions about ownership, protection against unjustified suffering, and the ability of animals to make their own choices free from human control, the authors offer numerous different perspectives on animal rights and animal welfare. They show that whatever one's ultimate conclusions, the relationship between human beings and nonhuman animals is being fundamentally rethought. This book offers a state-of-the-art treatment of that rethinking.…mehr
Cass Sunstein and Martha Nussbaum bring together an all-star cast of contributors to explore the legal and political issues that underlie the campaign for animal rights and the opposition to it. Addressing ethical questions about ownership, protection against unjustified suffering, and the ability of animals to make their own choices free from human control, the authors offer numerous different perspectives on animal rights and animal welfare. They show that whatever one's ultimate conclusions, the relationship between human beings and nonhuman animals is being fundamentally rethought. This book offers a state-of-the-art treatment of that rethinking.
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.
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* 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 and 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
* 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 and 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
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