GW Law Library: Library Guides: Animal Law: Books, Treatises & Other Publications

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Books

Additional materials on animal law and related topics can be located using JACOB, the Library's catalog.

Animal Rights Law by Raffael N. Fasel; Sean C. Butler
Covers early anti-cruelty laws to modern animal welfare laws, to recent attempts to grant basic rights and personhood to animals. Explains the ethics, legal theory, and social issues behind animal rights and connected topics such as property, subjecthood, dignity, and human rights.
Global Animal Law Research by Alex Xiaomeng Zhang (Editor); Katherine Siler (Editor)
Chapters identify, discuss, and analyze research resources, strategies, and current and emerging legal frameworks on animal rights and welfare in the laws of more than 15 countries across five continents.
The Legal Recognition of Animal Sentience by Jane Kotzmann (Editor); M. B. Rodriguez Ferrere (Editor)
Explores the movement towards the recognition of animal sentience in the law.
Routledge Handbook of Animal Welfare by Andrew Knight (Editor); Clive Phillips (Editor); Paula Sparks (Editor)
Explores the biological foundations for the moral consideration of animals and for evolving conceptualisations of animal welfare. It reviews in detail the welfare concerns associated with numerous forms of animal use, including developments relating to climate change, pandemics, and antimicrobial resistance.
What Can Animal Law Learn from Environmental Law? by Randall Abate
Examines how environmental law's successes and shortcomings can inform animal law, and how the two fields can work together to secure mutual gains in the future.
Wildlife Law: A Primer, 2d ed. by Eric T. Freyfogle; Dale D. Goble; Todd A. Wildermuth
Describes basic legal concepts, including issues such as private wildlife reserves and game ranches, and the increased prominence of nuisance species as well as an expanded discussion of the Endangered Species Act.

Treatises

Treatises, written by legal scholars and practitioners, provide current, in-depth analysis and commentary. Selected treatises that cover some animal law issues:

Environmental Law
Environmental Law Practice Guide
State Environmental Law
Treatise on Environmental Law

Other Publications

U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports:
GAO is an independent, nonpartisan auditing arm of Congress. GAO monitors how federal agencies spend and reports on how well government programs and policies are meeting their objectives.

GAO Reports

Examples:

Animal Use in Research: NIH Should Strengthen Oversight of Projects It Funds at Foreign Facilities (GAO-23-105736)
Puget Sound: Further Actions Could Improve Efforts to Address Impaired Water Quality That Threatens Salmon (GAO-24-105687)

National Academies Press (NAP) Reports:

NAP is the publishing arm of the private, nonprofit National Academies whose work is grounded in the expertise of three academies — the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and National Academy of Medicine (NAM).

Institute for Laboratory Animal Research Reports

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