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<p><span>Animal law is a growing discipline, as is animal ethics. In this wide-ranging book, scholars from around the world address the intersections between the two. A project of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, this collection focuses on pressing moral issues and how law can protect animals from cruelty and abuse.</span></p>
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<p><span>Introduction: Law, Ethics, and the Special Status of Animals</span></p>
<p><span>By Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey</span></p>
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<p><span>Part I: Historical Perspectives</span></p>
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<p><span>Chapter :1 John Philoponus’s Presentation of Animal Rationality and the Law</span></p>
<p><span>By Oliver B. Langworthy</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 2: The Gallinger Bill, a Bill to Regulate Animal Experimentation in the District of Columbia: Forerunner of the 1966 Laboratory Animal Welfare Act</span></p>
<p><span>By Robyn Hederman</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 3: The Charitable Status of English Antivivisection: How It Was Lost and Could Be Regained</span></p>
<p><span>By A. W. H. Bates</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 4: The “Glass Walls” Theory: A History and Discussion of the Guidelines and Laws concerning Nonhuman Animals in the North American Film Industry</span></p>
<p><span>By Rebecca Stanton</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 5: Bringing Animal Cruelty Investigation into Mainstream Law Enforcement in the United States</span></p>
<p><span>By Randall Lockwood</span></p>
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<p><span>Part II: Ethical–Legal Issues</span></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 6 From Ethics into Law</span></p>
<p><span>By David Favre</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 7: From Morally Relevant Features to Relevant Legal Protection: A Critique of the Legal Concept of Animals as “Property”</span></p>
<p><span>By Frances M. C. Robinson</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 8: The Nonhuman Rights Project’s Struggles to Gain Legal Rights for Nonhuman Animals</span></p>
<p><span>By Steven M. Wise</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 9: Animals as Quasi-Property/Persons</span></p>
<p><span>By Angela Fernandez</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 10: Housing Rights and Forever Homes: Reforms to Make Our Cities More Livable for Our Companion Animals and Ourselves</span></p>
<p><span>By Solana Joy Phillips</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 11: A Legal Critique of the Putative Educational Value of Zoos</span></p>
<p><span>By Alice Collinson</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 12: Our Costly Obsession: Animal Welfare, Plastic Pollution, and New Directions for Change</span></p>
<p><span>By Mariah Rayfield Beck</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 13: Why Anti-Cruelty Laws Are Not Enough</span></p>
<p><span>By Matthew J. Webber</span></p>
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<p><span>Part III: Case Studies</span></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 14: The European Union: Make Animal Law Work—The Direct Effect Principle in EU Law as an Instrument for Improving Animal Welfare </span></p>
<p><span>By Lena Hehemann</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 15: US and New Zealand: Farmed Animals and the Rule of Law</span></p>
<p><span>By Danielle Duffield</span><span></span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 16: Africa: Crimes against Nonhumanity? The Case of the African Elephant</span></p>
<p><span>By Ruaidhrí D. Wilson</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 17: India: Whither Bovinity? Hindu Dharma, the Indian State, and Conflicting Moral Perspectives over Cow Protection</span></p>
<p><span>By Kenneth Valpey</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 18: United Kingdom and Ireland: Animal Law Compared </span></p>
<p><span>By Maureen O’Sullivan and Stephanie O’Flynn</span></p>
<p><span>About the Contributors</span></p>
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<p><span>Animal Ethics and Animal Law</span><span> brilliantly explores the intersection of ethics and law in our treatment of nonhuman animals. Legal and ethical scholars examine historical moments that inform contemporary issues, discuss the moral status of animals and how such status is reflected in law, and analyze case studies that demonstrate the current failure of law to adequately protect the interests of nonhuman animals. A thoughtful and inspiring read!</span></p>

<p><span>Andrew Linzey </span><span>is director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and has been a member of the faculty of theology in the University of Oxford for twenty-eight years.</span></p>
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<p><span>Clair Linzey</span><span> is deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She is a professor of animal theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation.</span></p>
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