This exploration of the newly emerging, diverse, and controversial area of animal lawpresents a basic survey of the laws designed to protect animals, analyzing

Legislation relating to animals has ancient origins and in many civilizations certain species have held particular significance, be it religious, cultural, nutr

Sonia S. Waisman is an Adjunct Professor of Law, California Western School of Law, Of Counsel, Morrison & Foerster, LLP.

The field requires both learning and unlearning to develop forms of critical thinking that are scientifically informed and ethically sensitive.

Argues that the way humans treat animals results from the contradiction between the ideas that animals have some rights, but that they are also property, and of