Canadian Perspectives on Animals and the Law

Sankoff, Peter (Author)/ Black, Vaughan (Author)/ Sykes, Katie (Author)

ISBN 10: 155221382X / ISBN 13: 9781552213827

Published by MY – University of Toronto Press, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Canadian Perspectives on Animals and the Law
• Publisher: MY University of Toronto Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 155221382X
• ISBN 13: 9781552213827
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.53 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

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.