With its intricate layers of international, federal, and state protections, environmental law is more established than animal law. Yet, animal law faces many of the same legal and strategic challenges that environmental law faced in seeking to establish a more secure foothold in the United States and abroad. As such, animal law stands to gain valuable insights from the lessons of the environmental law movement.

In the Second Edition of this book, Prof. Randall S. Abate has assembled an experienced team of 36 academics, advocates, and legal professionals from the environmental and animal law fields to examine the experiences of these two fields. Drawing on lessons from history, politics, and law, the 29-chapter book examines how environmental law’s successes and shortcomings can inform animal law, and how the two fields can work together to secure mutual gains in the future.


Imprint: Environmental Law Institute
Series: Environmental Law Institute
Publication Date: 07/13/2020

Randall S. Abate, George Washington University Law School

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Highlights from the Second Edition:

  • Three new chapters addressing how food law and policy can be a valuable mechanism for enhanced protection of animals. Coverage includes consumer protection litigation involving false advertising claims, industry challenges to plant-based meat and milk, and animal and environmental law and policy considerations concerning lab-grown meat.
  • Expanded coverage of cutting-edge procedural topics with three new chapters on impact assessment, enforcement, and regulatory avoidance. Expanded coverage of climate change with two new chapters addressing innovative proposals for enhanced protection of animals in the face of this crisis.
  • New chapters on a range of pressing themes at the intersection of animal and environmental law and policy including rights of nature, greenwashing and humane washing, animal testing, and an emerging area known as “animal socioequality.”

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