ANIMAL LAW (2) (UCI 138)

Professor Sherry Ramsey

This course will examine the legal classification and laws protecting non-human animals, as well as a number of topics that fall within the general heading "animal law."   Such topics include: the historical and philosophical treatment of animals, and how such treatement has impacted the ways in which judges, administrators, politicians, lawyers, law students, legal scholars and lay people see protection laws; recent political campaigns to reform animal protection laws; "standing" and the problems of litigating on behalf of animals; the classificaiton of animals as "property" and how that affects legal decisions; and whether currentl legal protection for animals are sufficient or in the alternative, whether new legal strategies, and laws for animals, should be pursued.  Occasional guest speakers.