Animal Rights Law Book Launch

Do animals have legal rights? This important new book tells readers everything they need to know about animal rights law. Using straightforward examples from over 30 legal systems from both the civil and common law traditions, and based on popular courses run by the authors at the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights, the book takes the reader from the earliest anti-cruelty laws to modern animal welfare laws, to recent attempts to grant basic rights and personhood to animals. To help readers understand this legal evolution, it explains the ethics, legal theory, and social issues behind animal rights and connected topics such as property, subjecthood, dignity, and human rights. NYU Animal Studies is thrilled to be hosting a launch event for this book, featuring discussion with the authors and animal law experts John Adenitire and Joyce Tischler.