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Multispecies Legality: Animals and the Foundation of Legal Inclusion


ISBN13: 9781009526661
To be Published: June 2025
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
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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.

Subjects:
Jurisprudence
Contents:
Introduction
1. Animals already have legal rights: moving on from the rights versus welfare debate
2. A matter of Justice: lack of legal standing as a barrier to legal inclusion
3. Unnecessary, inconsistent, and exclusionary: the problem with (legal) personhood
4. Losing the trees for the forest: a critique of the rights of nature as a foundation for animals' legal rights
5. All animals are interested: an account of interests as the basis of legal inclusion
6. Too much, too little, too unlikely: addressing potential concerns
7. Embedding multispecies interests in political institutions
Conclusion
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