{"title":"Improving the Law for Animals: a Campaigning Lawyer's Perspective.","authors":"David Thomas","doi":"10.1007/s10991-022-09293-8","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The protection which the law gives animals is based on a fundamentally different philosophy to that it gives people. With people, causing significant physical harm is nearly always prohibited, irrespective of any benefit which might accrue to others. By contrast, animals' essential interests are weighed against a wide range of human interests, and usually they lose out. That routinely means that significant harm is inflicted on them, quite legally. Many consider that there is therefore a pressing need for lawyers committed to maximising the protection which animals receive. This article discusses the numerous ways in which lawyers can help animal protection organisations realise their goals, with two case studies. The first relates to the global trade in seal products and the second to the legal status of domesticated animals as chattels and the implications this has for their welfare.</p>","PeriodicalId":42661,"journal":{"name":"Liverpool Law Review","volume":"43 1","pages":"107-121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8781699/pdf/","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Liverpool Law Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10991-022-09293-8","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2022/1/21 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"LAW","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The protection which the law gives animals is based on a fundamentally different philosophy to that it gives people. With people, causing significant physical harm is nearly always prohibited, irrespective of any benefit which might accrue to others. By contrast, animals' essential interests are weighed against a wide range of human interests, and usually they lose out. That routinely means that significant harm is inflicted on them, quite legally. Many consider that there is therefore a pressing need for lawyers committed to maximising the protection which animals receive. This article discusses the numerous ways in which lawyers can help animal protection organisations realise their goals, with two case studies. The first relates to the global trade in seal products and the second to the legal status of domesticated animals as chattels and the implications this has for their welfare.
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The Liverpool Law Review is a tri-annual journal of contemporary domestic, European and international legal and social policy issues. The Journal aims to provide articles, commentaries and reviews across a wide range of theoretical and practical legal and social policy matters - including public law, private law, civil and criminal justice, international law, ethics and legal theory. The Journal has many international subscribers and regularly publishes important contributions from the U.K. and abroad. Articles and commentaries are published with sufficient speed to ensure that they are truly current.
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