FOUNDATIONS OF ANIMAL LAW. CONCEPTS - PRINCIPLES - DILEMMAS

ISBN: 978-83-226-4291-7

258 stron
format: B5
oprawa: miękka
Rok wydania: 2023

Foundations of Animal Law. Concepts-Principles-Dilemmas stanowi anglojęzyczną i skierowaną do audytorium międzynarodowego wersję książki wydanej w 2022 r. pod tytułem Prawo ochrony zwierząt. Pojęcia, zasady, dylematy. Omawia ona filozoficzne, etyczne i dogmatyczno-komparatystyczne aspekty nowopowstającej dziedziny regulacji prawnej - prawa ochrony zwierząt. Identyfikuje kluczowe wartości, pojęcia i instytucje składające się na współczesny model prawnej ochrony zwierząt. Dokonuje tego w oparciu o analizę prawodawstwa polskiego i zagranicznego, w szczególności prawa Unii Europejskiej. Sprawia to, że zawarte w książce ujęcie ma charakter unikalny, a jej wartość dalece wykracza poza dominujące w literaturze przedmiotu argumentacje zmierzające do wykazania istnienia racji etycznych za gruntownymi zmianami prawnej sytuacji zwierząt.

SPIS TREŚCI

List of Abbreviations

Preface

Foundations

Chapter 1
Legal Philosophy and Animal Law
1. Law and the picture of the world
2. Presuppositions of law
3. The philosophy of law and juridical humanism

Chapter 2
Personhood
1. Persons and subjects of law
2. Animals and sentience
3. Sentience and its ethical implications
4. Non-personal subjects and law
5. Law and the subjecthood of animals
6. Towards the non-personal subjecthood of animals

Chapter 3
Suffering
1. Legal terminology
2. Pain and distress
3. Suffering
4. Harm and its kinds

Chapter 4
Interests
1. Needs, interests, and wants
2. Interests and moral duties
3. Interests and law
4. Interests and legal protection of animals

Chapter 5
Morality
1. Public morality
2. Positive and critical social morality
3. Public morality and animals
4. The moral rights of animals
5. Interests, moral rights, and law

Dimensions

Chapter 6
The Systemic Nature of Law
1. The legal system and its elements
2. Law as a system of norms
3. Legal institutions
4. Animal law as part of the legal system
5. The problem of the constitutional basis for animal law

Chapter 7
Dereification
1. The concept of dereification
2. The dereification clause
3. Dereification and private law
4. Dereification and criminal law and procedure
5. Dereification and administrative law

Chapter 8
Killing
1. Animal life as a legally protected good
2. A relative ban on animal killing

Chapter 9
Exploitation
1. The ethical problem of animal exploitation
2. Exploitation of farm animals
3. Exploitation of experimental animals
4. Other forms of animal exploitation

Chapter 10
Harassment
1. The rise of anti-cruelty legislation
2. Contemporary legal institution of animal abuse

Chapter 11
Execution
1. Supervision of compliance with animal law
2. Cooperation with NGOs
3. (In)effectiveness of animal law enforcement mechanisms

Principles

Chapter 12
Principles of Animal Law
1. Principles in law
2. Validity of legal principles
3. Animal law and its principles

Chapter 13
Principle of the Protection of Life
1. The value of animal life and the law
2. Prohibition on the killing of animals
3. Other provisions based on the recognition of the value of animal life
4. The scope and rank of the principle of the protection of animal life

Chapter 14
Principle of Animal Welfare Protection
1. Animal welfare and animal dereification
2. General dereification clauses
3. Anti-cruelty laws
4. Regulations establishing standards for the treatment of animals
5. Animal welfare and other legal values

Chapter 15
Principle of Special Protection for Animals Closer
to Humans
1. Differentiation in the legal protection of animals
2. Pets
3. Animals used for scientific and educational purposes
4. Farm animals
5. Animals used for entertainment and free-living animals

Chapter 16
Principle of Double Responsibility
1. Individual liability for the animal
2. Collective (social) responsibility
3. Public education

Chapter 17
Principle of Relative Respect for the Economic
and Cultural Rationale behind Animal Exploitation
1. Values limiting the protection of animal life and welfare
2. Direct references to values that limit animal protection
3. Values justifying animal exploitation as presuppositions of animal legislation
4. Primacy of the protection of animal life and welfare

Epilogue
Quaestiones pro futuro
1. Evolution, morality, and ethics
2. Naturalistic fallacy and moralistic fallacy
3. Law and ethical progress
4. The impact of law on morality
5. Progress in animal law
6. A revolution to come?

Bibliography