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Law's Animal: A Critical Jurisprudence addresses the problem of 'animal life' in terms that go beyond the usual extension of liberal rights to animals.

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Author:   Yoriko Otomo ,  Edward Mussawir (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780415683500

ISBN 10:   0415683505
Pages:   198
Publication Date:   08 February 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Yoriko Otomo and Ed Mussawir (editors); 2. The Animal Protagonist: Representing ‘The Animal’ in Law and Cinema – Connal Parsley; 3.Witness Demeanour as Real Evidence: Mechanistic Philosophy of Bodies Without Minds – Piyel Haldar; 4.Inventing Animals – Cressida Limon; 5.Chimpanzees in Court: What Difference Does it Make – Ciméa Bevilacqua; 6.The Jurisprudential Meaning of the Animal: A Critique of the Subject of Rights in the Laws of Scienter and Negligence – Ed Mussawir; 7.Dressing the Sow and The Legal Subjectivation of the Non-Human Animal – Victoria Ridler; 8.Whipping to Win: Measured Violence, Delegated Sovereignty and the Privatised Domination of Non Human Life – Dinesh Wadiwel; 9.Law in the Marketplace – Marc Trabsky; 10.The Normativity of an Animal Atmosphere – Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos; 11.Species, Scarcity and the Secular State – Yoriko Otomo

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'I have been challenged and excited - at the same time! - by the original insights contained in some of the chapters of Law and the Question of the Animal' - John Mancy, Editor for Australian Animal Protection Law Journal

'I have been challenged and excited - at the same time! - by the original insights contained in some of the chapters of Law and the Question of the Animal' - John Mancy, Editor for Australian Animal Protection Law Journal 'Yoriko Otomo and Ed Mussawir's Law and the Question of the Animal: A Critical Jurisprudence is an innovative collection of essays.' - Maneesha Deckha, University of Victoria, Canada for Social & Legal Studies (Vol. 23(1) 131-148, 2014)

Author Information

Yoriko Otomo is a Lecturer in Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Her research looks at the intersection between International Law and Animal Law, in particular at the ways in which processes of colonization and globalization have influenced jurisprudence relating to animals. Edward Mussawir is a lecturer at Griffith Law School Brisbane and the author of Jurisdiction in Deleuze: The Expression and Representation of Law. His research has focused on the reception of the work of Gilles Deleuze in jurisprudence and the theories of persons, possession, procedure and judgment

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