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Published In: The Brief, no. 2, Winter 2025 at 32 · Mar 18, 2025
Publication Year: 2025
Keywords: animal law; artificial intelligence; animal communication; legal personhood; animal rights
This article examines the legal and ethical implications of AI-assisted animal communication, arguing that emerging translation technologies could challenge existing legal assumptions about animal cognition, standing, and personhood while raising new concerns about reliability, consent,
Published In: Sydney Law Review
Publication Year: 2020
Keywords: animal, sentient, rights, law, protection
Scientific research is clear that most animals are sentient. This means that they have the capacity to subjectively perceive or feel things such as happiness and suffering. At present in Australia, animal sentience is, to
Published In: Animals and Race
Publication Year: 2022
Keywords: race, intersectionality, social justice, colonialism
The article deconstructs the white sheep complex, a phenomenon where dominant social groups identify with animal suffering at the hands of marginalized people to cast themselves as victims. Using the 2018 Clifton Beach sheep slaughter
Published In: Global Journal of Animal Law
Publication Year: 2022
Keywords: pandemics, zoonoses, well-being, treaties
As the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates, society’s failure to address animal well-being has had grave consequences not just for animals but also for humans. The emergence of zoonotic diseases is largely a result of high-risk contact
Published In: Environmental Law Review
Publication Year: 2024
Keywords: insect agriculture, CAFOs, climate change
With the publication of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization’s 2013 report, Edible Insects: Future Prospects for Food and Feed Security, the production of insects for animal feed and human consumption has witnessed a meteoric
Published In: One Health and the Law: Existing Frameworks, Intersections and Future Pathways
Publication Year: 2025
Keywords: zoonoses, pandemic, well-being
The article observes how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed critical weaknesses in global health architecture, particularly regarding the recurring threat of zoonotic diseases that emerge from human-animal interfaces. While world leaders have called for a new
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