Australian Animal Law
Context and Critique
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Sydney University Press
Published:1st Jul '22
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Australian Animal Law: Context and Critique provides comprehensive information about the legal and regulatory framework governing the interaction between humans and animals.
By relating specific content areas to the discipline’s broader characteristics and themes, researcher Elizabeth Ellis exposes the systemic nature of current problems and the consequent need for significant change. This book also illustrates the role of official animal protection narratives in legitimising the existing system despite the many factual flaws they contain.
Ellis covers the major areas of animal law in detail, incorporating accessible contextual material and allowing readers to consolidate their understanding and build upon their knowledge. Key areas include the concept of unnecessary animal suffering, the effective exemption of most animals from the operation of cruelty laws, regulatory conflicts of interest, the hidden nature of animal use and the lack of transparency in animal law.
Australian Animal Law is an essential resource, inviting reflection on the way the law helps to construct the relationship between human and non-human animals, including through its silences and omissions.
"Her new book, which focuses on Australian law but also considers the global situation, is an important document and comes at a time when the divide between what consumers expect, based on their growing concern for animal wellbeing, and what they unwittingly support is perhaps more pronounced than ever before."
-- Teya Brooks Pribac * Australasian Animal Studies Association *“Ellis has written a masterful book, which engages with the field of animal law in novel and important ways. The book is ambitious in its breadth: it introduces foundational concepts and key elements of statute and doctrine, while also undertaking advanced critical analysis.”
– A.P.A. Best, Animal Studies Journal 13(1)
ISBN: 9781743328514
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390 pages