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Animal Law

Personhood

Books

Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders by Maneesha Deckha
Call Number: KE3676 .D43 2021 ST. MICHAEL'S
Publication Date: 2021
Also available online to the U of T community

Book Chapters

Already Artificial: Legal Personality and Animal Rights by Angela Fernandez
Call Number: K650 .H86 2020 ROBARTS
Publication Date: 2020
In Jody Greene & Sharif Youssef (eds), Human Rights after Corporate Personhood: An Uneasy Merger?
Available online to the U of T community

Theses

Animal Personhood: A Postanthropocentric Multispecies Legal Subjectivity by Paulina Siemieniec
Publication Date: 2019
Queen's University
Open Access
The Case for Legal Personhood for Nonhuman Animals and the Elimination of their Status as Property in Canada by Courtney Holdron
Publication Date: 2013
University of Toronto
Available online to the U of T community

Journal Articles

Animals as Rights-Holders: Could the Charter Abolish Farmed Animal Use? by Adam Clasky
(2025) 13:1 Global Journal of Animal Law
Open access
Animals & Section 7: How Early Charter Jurisprudence Supports Protections for Animals by Samantha Skinner
(2021) 9 Global Journal of Animal Law
Open access
Not Quite Property, Not Quite Persons: A ‘Quasi’ Approach for Nonhuman Animals by Angela Fernandez
(2019) 5 Canadian Journal of Comparative and Contemporary Law 155
Open Access
Unsettling Anthropocentric Legal Systems: Reconcilliation, Indigenous Laws, and Animal Personhood by Maneesha Deckha
(2020) 41:1 Journal of Intercultural Studies 77
Available online to the U of T community
Legal History and Rights for Nonhuman Animals: An Interview with Steven M Wise by Angela Fernandez
(2018) 41:1 Dalhousie Law Journal 197
Open Access
Social Membership: Animal Law beyond the Property/Personhood Impasse by Will Kymlicka
(2017) 40:1 Dalhousie Law Journal 123
Open Access
Steven M Wise and the Common Law Case for Animal Rights: Full Steam Ahead by Daniel Davison-Vecchione & Kate Pambos
(2017) 30:2 Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence 287
Available online to the U of T community
Animal Personhood in Mi’kmaq Perspective by Margaret Robinson
(2014) 4:4 Societies 672

Documentaries

Unlocking the Cage (2015)

Videos

Animals as Property, Quasi-Property or Quasi-Person by Angela Fernandez
Animal Law Fundamentals, Brooks Institute for Animal Rights, Law & Policy
Animals as Property, Quasi-Property or Quasi-Person by Angela Fernandez
Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law, Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy Series
Animals as Property, Quasi-Property or Quasi-Person by Angela Fernandez
NYU Environmental Studies
The Quasi-property, Quasi-person Approach to Animals in the Legal System by Angela Fernandez
The Law, Ethics & Animals Program at Yale Law School) by Angela Fernandez

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