Animal Rights : Current Debates and New Directions

Contributors ix CASS R. SUNSTEIN Introduction: What Are Animal Rights? 3(16) PART I: CURRENT DEBATES 1 STEVEN M. WISE Animal Rights, One Step at a Time 19(32) 2 RICHARD A. POSNER Animal Rights: Legal, Philosophical, and Pragmatic Perspectives 51(27) 3 PETER SINGER Ethics beyond Species and beyond Instincts: A Response to Richard Posner 78(15) 4 CORA DIAMOND Eating Meat and Eating People 93(15) 5 GARY T. FRANCIONE Animals—Property or Persons? 108(35) 6 RICHARD A. EPSTEIN Animals as Objects, or Subjects, of Rights 143(19) 7 JAMES RACHELS Drawing Lines 162(13) 8 LESLEY J. ROGERS AND GISELA KAPLAN All Animals Are Not Equal: The Interface between Scientific Knowledge and Legislation for Animal Rights 175(30) PART II: NEW DIRECTIONS 9 DAVID J. WOLFSON AND MARIANN SULLIVAN Foxes in the Hen House: Animals, Agribusiness, and the Law: A Modern American Fable 205(29) 10 DAVID FAVRE A New Property Status for Animals: Equitable Self-Ownership 234(17) 11 CASS R. SUNSTEIN Can Animals Sue? 251(12) 12 CATHARINE A. MACKINNON Of Mice and Men: A Feminist Fragment on Animal Rights 263(14) 13 ELIZABETH ANDERSON Animal Rights and the Values of Nonhuman Life 277(22) 14 MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM Beyond "Compassion and Humanity": Justice for Nonhuman Animals 299(22) Bibliographic Essay 321(4) Index 325