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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2025
Print publication year:
2025
Online ISBN:
9781009526654

Book description

Animals are unfortunately an afterthought in legal systems that have been developed to adjudicate the claims of humans and corporate entities. For those of us determined to extend the scope of justice to include animals, we must ask how to reshape our legal institutions to ensure that animal interests are considered alongside those of other, existing legal subjects. In this groundbreaking work, Serrin Rutledge-Prior departs from those who have proposed to extend legal personhood to animals, which in practice has proven to be exclusionary and inconsistently applied by the courts. Instead, Rutledge-Prior offers a new principle to ground legal inclusion based on a principle of multispecies legality that extends legal subjecthood to anyone – human or nonhuman – who possess interests.

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Contents

  • Multispecies Legality
    pp i-ii
  • Multispecies Legality - Title page
    pp iii-iii
  • Animals and the Foundation of Legal Inclusion
  • Copyright page
    pp iv-iv
  • Dedication
    pp v-vi
  • Contents
    pp vii-viii
  • Acknowledgements
    pp ix-x
  • Introduction
    pp 1-17
  • 1 - Animals Already Have Legal Rights
    pp 18-39
  • Moving on from the Rights-versus-Welfare Debate
  • 2 - A Matter of Justice
    pp 40-59
  • Lack of Legal Standing as a Barrier to Legal Inclusion
  • 3 - Unnecessary, Inconsistent, and Exclusionary
    pp 60-88
  • The Problem with (Legal) Personhood
  • 5 - All Animals Are Interested
    pp 109-128
  • An Account of Interests as the Basis for Legal Inclusion
  • 6 - Too Much, Too Little, Too Unlikely
    pp 129-148
  • Addressing Potential Concerns
  • 7 - Embedding Multispecies Interests in Political Institutions
    pp 149-166
  • Conclusion
    pp 167-172
  • References
    pp 173-190
  • Index
    pp 191-196

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