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Do animals need rights?
Prof. William A. Edmundson recently added valuable input to the animal rights debate with his paper “Do animals need rights?”, presented at the conference “The animal turn and the law”, held in Basel, Switzerland, on April 4-5, 2014. Combining philosophy and law, Edmundson has authored the book “An Introduction to Rights” (CUP, 2012), where he developed […]
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Animal law from an inter-national perspective
Animal law historically evolved as a field of law that is operated from the domestic level. Consequently, many states view laws on animal welfare as a regime enjoying the status of domaine réservé, i.e. as a protected internal affair. Being a matter of “domestic jurisdiction”, animal law currently escapes authoritative judgment by the international community. […]
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Cognitive biases in the law
Judicial decisions and the individual judges behind the judgments are liable to claims of objectivity and impartiality. Given the workload judges face, the vast diversity of subject matter they are expected to master, and – more fundamentally – given the fact that they run on human brains, it comes as no surprise that judgments don’t […]
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