Wildlife as Property Owners

Karen Bradshaw is professor of law and a Williard H. Pedrick Scholar at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. She is also a faculty affiliate scholar with the Classical Liberal Institute at the New York University School of Law and a senior sustainability scientist at the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University. Bradshaw researches the intersection of property, administrative, natural resources, animal, and environmental law. She is coeditor of Wildfire Policy: Law and Economics Perspectives.

Introduction

Part I: A Foundational Understanding of Animal Property Law

1: The Nexus of Animal Rights and the Rights of Nature
2: Biodiversity Loss as a Property Law Problem

Part II: Revealing the Existing Body of Animal Property Rights

3: The Biological Origins of Property
4: Uncovering Animal Rights in Existing Property Law

Part III: A Roadmap for Property Ownership to Benefit Biodiversity

5: Using Legal Trusts to Implement a System of Animal Property Rights
6: Traditional Legal Pathways to Formalizing Animal Property Rights
7: Leveraging Property Rights to Aid Biodiversity
8: Case Studies of Stakeholder Collaborations Managing Resource Competition between Humans and Wildlife Case Study 1: Ranchers and Wild Horses in the West
Case Study 2: Outsourcing Thick-Billed Parrot Recovery to Mexico
Case Study 3: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Scientific Management of Caribou
Part IV: Analyzing the Potential of Animal Property Ownership

9: Evaluating a Property-Based Approach to Biodiversity Preservation
10: The Implications of Interspecies Ownership on Property Theory

Conclusion: Are Animal Property Rights the Rights of Nature?
  Acknowledgments
Notes
Index