Welcome to the FEWD Animal Law Theory / Philosophy Bibliography, chronological organized

(Basic information offers the Oxford Bibliographies.)

Pietrzykowski, Tomasz / Wahlberg, Birgitta (eds.) 2025. Research Handbook of Animal Law and Animal Rights. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing. www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/research-handbook-on-animal-law-and-animal-rights-9781035324873.html? 

Leiva Ilabaca, Carolina Cecilia 2023. Exploring the foundations of animal legal rights: Towards a sentience-interest pragmatic view». Revista Catalana de Dret Ambiental 14 (2), 1-36. - doi.org/10.17345/rcda3648  / raco.cat/index.php/rcda/article/view/425203.

Favre, David S. 2019. Animal Law. Welfare Interests & Rights. 3rd Edition. New York, Aspen Publishers - Wolters Kluwer.

Favre, David S. 2017. Animals as Living Property. In: Kalof, Linda (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies. Oxford, OUP: 65-80. - academic.oup.com/edited-volume/28022?

Tauber, Steven C. 2016. Navigating the Jungle. Law, Politics, and the Animal Advocacy Movement. New York, NY, Routledge. – URL

Hadley, John 2015. Animal Property Rights. A Theory of Habitat Rights for Wild Animals. Lanham, MD, Lexington Books.

Peters, Anne / Stucki, Saskia / Boscardin, Livia (eds.) 2015. Animal law: reform or revolution? Zürich, Schulthess Verlag. - www.schulthess.com/buchshop/detail/ISBN-9783725573110

Garner, Robert 2013. A Theory of Justice for Animals: Animal Rights in a Nonideal World. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Tischler, Joyce 2012. A Brief History of Animal Law, Part II (1985–2011). Stanford Journal of Animal Law and Policy 5: 27-77. – URL!

Garner, Robert 2011. In Defence of Animal Sentience: A Critique of Cochrane’s Liberty Thesis. Political Studies 59: 175-187.

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 2011 Focus: Animals' Place in Jurisprudence. Volume 24, Issue 3. link.springer.com/journal/11196

Favre, David S. 2010. Living property. A new status for animals within the legal system. Marquette Law Review 93: 1022-1071. - scholarship.law.marquette.edu/mulr/vol93/iss3/3

Francione, Gary L. / Garner, Robert 2010. The Animal Rights Debate. Abolition or Regulation? (Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science and Law). New York, Columbia University Press.

Francione, Gary L. 2010. Animal Welfare and the Moral Value of Nonhuman Animals. Law, Culture and the Humanities 6 (1): 24-36.

Haynes, Richard P.   2008. Animal Welfare: Competing Conceptions And Their Ethical Implications. Berlin, Springer.

Tischler, Joyce 2008. The History of Animal Law, Part I (1972 - 1987). Stanford Journal of Animal Law and Policy 1: 1-49. – URL!

Francione, Gary L 2008. Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation. New York, CUP.

Garner, Robert 2008. The Politics of Animal Rights. British Politics 3(1): 110-119.

Dunayer, Joan 2007. Advancing Animal Rights. Journal of Animal Law 3: 1-32.

Cavalieri, Paola 2005. Are Human Rights Human?  Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture 4(2). www.logosjournal.com

Garner, Robert 2005. The Political Theory of Animal Rights (Perspectives on Democratization). Manchester, Manchester University Press.

Hadley, John 2005. Nonhuman Animal Property: Reconciling Environmentalism and Animal Rights. Journal of Social Philosophy 36: 305-315. Reprinted in: Palmer, Clare (ed.) 2008.

Epstein, Richard A. 2004. Animals as Subjects, or Objects, of Rights. In: Sunstein, Cass R. / Nussbaum, Martha (eds.). Animal Rights. Current Debates, New Directions. Oxford, Oxford University Press: 143-161. Reprinted in: Palmer, Clare (ed.) 2008.

Favre, David S. 2004. Integrating animal interests into our legal system. Animal Law Review 10: 87-89.

Sunstein, Cass R. / Nussbaum, Martha C., (eds.) 2004. Animal Rights: Current Debates, New Directions. Oxford, Oxford University Press. – URL!

DeGrazia, David 2002. Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Garner, Robert 2002. Political Ideologie and the Legal Staus of Animals. Animal Law Review 8: 77-91.  

Epstein, Richard A. 2000. The Dangerous Claims of the Animal Rights Movement.  Animals can feel pain, they can show anger, they can plan. So why shouldn't they have rights? The Responsive Community 10(2): Reprinted in Armstrong, S. 2008.

Garner, Robert 1998. Defending Animal Rights. Parliamentary Affairs 51(3): 462-463.

Cavalieri, Paola /  Kymlicka, Will 1996. Expanding the Social Contract. in:  Cavalieri, Paola (Ed.). Etica & Animali: Special Issue "The Great Ape Project". Milano, Italy. 8: 5-33.

Garner, Robert (ed.) 1996. Animal Rights: The Changing Debate. New York, NY, New York University Press.

Francione, Gary L. 1995, (2004). Animals, Property, and the Law. Philadelphia, PA, Temple University Press.

Francione, Gary L 1993. Personhood, Property and Legal Competence. in:  Cavalieri, Paola /  Singer, Peter (Eds.). The Great Ape Project. New York, NY, St Martin's Press: 248-257. http://www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-m/francione01.htm  

Burr, Stephen I. 1975. Toward Legal Rights for Animals. Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review 4 (2): 205-254 http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/ealr/vol4/iss2/2.

Nozick, Robert 1974 „Constraints and Animals“ Excerpted from Anarchy, State, and Utopia, New York: Basic Books, 1974, pp. 35-42 https://www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-m/nozick01.htm