Animals as Persons

Gary L. Francione was the first academic to teach animal rights theory in an American law school and has lectured on the topic throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. He is Distinguished Professor of Law and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Scholar of Law and Philosophy at Rutgers University-Newark, and his books include Introduction to Animal Rights and Animals, Property, and the Law.

• Foreword, by Gary Steiner Acknowledgments Introduction: The Abolition of Animal Use Versus the Regulation of Animal Treatment 1. Animals-Property or Persons? 2. Reflections on Animals, Property, and the Law and Rain Without Thunder 3. Taking Sentience Seriously 4. Equal Consideration and the Interest of Nonhuman Animals in Continued Existence: A Response to Professor Sunstein 5. The Use of Nonhuman Animals in Biomedical Research: Necessity and Justification 6. Ecofeminism and Animal Rights: A Review of Beyond Animal Rights: A Feminist Caring Ethic for the Treatment of Animals 7. Comparable Harm and Equal Inherent Value: The Problem of the Dog in the Lifeboat Reference Guide to Selected Topics

adds greatly to the understanding of both the ethical thinking about human and nonhuman animals and the campaigning and claims-making that occurs on behalf of animals. -- Roger Yates Sociology