Open Directory - Society: Issues: Animal Welfare: Legal
- Veterinary medical association established in 1863. The site contains comprehensive information about animal welfare, legal issues related to the ownership of animals, AVMA position statements, and information about the legal status of animals. - Planned repository of a full set of legal material relating to animals for all levels in the US, foreign national and international. Includes case law, policies, journals, publications and historical materials. - Animal rights law organization based in California. Programs include civil litigation, working to enact state felony anti-cruelty statutes, and the Great Ape Legal Program, dedicated to winning legal rights for great apes. - Office of Michael Rotsten, attorney at law, specializing in animal rights cases. California. - Provides a database of animal welfare and animal rights from pending legislation through relevant case law digests. From the National Anti-Vivisection Society, Chicago. - Provides updates and legal commentary on animal welfare current events and legal developments, from an animal rights perspective. - Provides information about international initiatives and projects regarding animals, welfare, law and ethics. - Student-run law review at Michigan State University discussing animal welfare issues in law and public policy. - Provides information about the rapidly growing area of animal law from a biomedical research perspective. The site contains news articles, case law, statutes, law review articles and regulations related to the use of animals in research. - About animal rights law, cases and materials, handbooks online, statutes and regulations. An academic project of Professor Gary Francione and Adjunct Professor Anna E. Charlton. - Status of legislation and how to lobby for laws. Action alerts, pending legislation, Congress scorecard and news. Washington DC, US. - The State Bar of Texas Animal Law Section promotes the study and understanding of laws, regulations, and court decisions dealing with legal issues involving animals. The section hosts a list serve, sponsors educational seminars, publishes a newsletter, and holds an annual meeting. - Review by Cass R. Sunstein of 'Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals' by Steven M. Wise, a book advocating legal personhood for animals. - Dedicated to developing legal scholarship and advocacy skills on behalf of animals. Offers news and resources along with details of programs, awards, grants and their board of directors. - Law school student organization aiming to provide a forum for education, advocacy, and scholarship to protect the lives and advancing the interests of animals through the legal system, and raising the profile of the field of animal law.
