Animal Rights

Cass R. Sunstein is Karl Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. Together, they previously edited Clones and Cloning. They are frequent contributors to popular journals and newspapers. . Sunstein's recent books include Why Societies Need Dissent and Designing Democracy; Nussbaum is recently author of Upheavals of Thought and For Love of Country.

INTRODUCTION: WHAT ARE ANIMAL RIGHTS?; PART I: CURRENT DEBATES; 1. Animal Rights, One Step at a Time; 2. Animal Rights: Legal, Philosophical and Pragmatic Perspectives; 3. Ethics Beyond Species and Beyond Instincts: A Reply to Richard Posner; 4. Eating Meat and Eating People; 5. Taking Animal Interests Seriously; 6. Animals as Objects, or Subjects, of Rights; 7. Drawing Lines; 8. All Animals are Not Equal: The Interface Between Scientific Knowledge and Legislation for Animal Rights; PART II: NEW DIRECTIONS; 9. Foxes in the Hen House: Animals, Agribusiness and the Law; 10. A New Property Status for Animals: Equitable Self-Ownership; 11. Can Animals Sue?; 12. Of Mice and Men: A Feminist Fragment on Animal Rights; 13. Animal Rights and the Values of Nonhuman Life; 14. "Beyond Compassion and Humanity": Justice for Non-Human Animals