Derecho Animal (Jul 2019)

Animal Rights Theory from the Legal and Bioethical Perspectives

  • Edna Cardozo Dias,
  • Alvaro Angelo Salles

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/da.443
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 3

Abstract

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Based on the alterations of new scientific paradigms that sustain the demand for a relationship between humans and non-human animals founded on bioethics, this paper seeks to highlight the urgency in the creation of a new legal status for animals in Brazil, and the need of relocating Animal Law as an autonomous academic discipline.

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