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Canadian Perspectives on Animals and the Law provides an important new contribution to the debate on the legal status and treatment of animals in Canada. Twelve chapters by leading academics and practising lawyers address a range of doctrinal and conceptual questions, situating legal analysis in the broader context of ethical and philosophical debate about justice in human-animal relationships. Topics addressed include the Ikea monkey case, key shortcomings in Canada's animal cruelty law, the relationship between animal rights and the rights of Canada's indigenous peoples, and the emergence of animal protection in international law. This volume should be invaluable for scholars, practitioners and students eager to explore these matters in greater depth, and an excellent resource for law school courses on animals and the law.

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Given its relative brevity, the book covers an impressive breadth of subject matter. It provides readers with a large amount of substantive material about domestic and international law. This material is presented in a highly accessible and engaging manner overall. Legal discussion is sufficiently but not unnecessarily technical, and more conceptual material is grounded in current and familiar topics. [ . . . ] This book will be of interest to a varied readership given the wide-ranging implications of this area of law. Developments in animal law have a diverse impact on industry development, international and domestic policy, the agricultural industry, local and international businesses, the charitable sector, the entertainment industry (controversies over the Calgary Stampede come to mind), scientific and medical research, and Aboriginal rights claimants. Animals and the Law is a must-read for legal professionals, academics, and students with interests in these areas and in animal law specifically. --Michelle Korpan, Saskatchewan Law Review 2016, Vol. 79

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Peter Sankoff is a Professor at the University of Alberta, Faculty of Law who specializes in animal law, criminal law, and the law of evidence. He is the author or editor of six books, including Animal Law in Australasia: A New Dialogue and Animal Law in Australasia: Continuing the Dialogue (Federation Press, 2013). Peter sits on the board of advisors of Animal Justice Canada and on the editorial board of the Journal of Animal Law and Natural Resources and the Global Journal of Animal Law. Vaughan Black (LLB, Toronto; LLM, Berkeley) is a professor at the Schulich School of Law, where he has taught for more than thirty years. He has also been the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Transborder Studies at Arizona State University, a visiting scholar at the UCLA School of Law, and a lecturer at The Hague Academy of International Law. He has served as editor-in-chief of the Dalhousie Law Journal and associate editor of the Canadian Business Law Journal. Katie Sykes (JD, Toronto; LLM, Harvard; LLM, Dalhousie), assistant professor at Faculty of Law, Thompson Rivers University; JSD candidate, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. From 2002-03, served as law clerk to the Hon Justice LeBel of the SCC; from 2004-10 was an associate in the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.

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