Animal Warfare Law and the Need for an Animal Law of Peace: A Comparative Reconstruction

Virtue Ethics and Animal Law

This essay explores virtue ethical concepts in the context of animal law theory and practice. For reasons discussed in the essay, virtue ethics may not, on its own, serve as an adequate foundation for general anticruelty statutes, but it may have application in those contexts in which sufficient sharing of values enables participants in legal reform to work through differences in moral commitme...

Law and Peace

Contract for the formation of a bank account in Iranian law and comparative

 Abstract: By creating a bank account agreement, an account is opened under the name of the applicant in the name of the bank. In accordance with the provisions of this agreement and the intention of the parties to the contract, the bank undertakes to accept all the funds the account holder or third parties intend to deposit into this account with the account holder, and, accordingly, the acco...

Current Brazilian law on animal experimentation.

Law 11794 establishes procedures for the scientific use of animals and abrogates the previous Law 6638/1979, which was ineffective because it was not regulated by the Brazilian Executive Power. Without regulation, many issues remained ill-defined, including operational procedures and responsibilities such as licensing, accreditation, and institutional compliance inspection. The new law states t...

The use of Zipf’s law in animal communication analysis

I nformation theory has been discussed as a technique to analyse communicative processes or sequential behaviour of nonhuman animals, as in MacKay (1972), Slater (1973) and Bradbury & Vehrencamp (1998, chapters 13–15) among others. Recently, McCowan et al. (1999) proposed the use of information theory for their study of bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, whistles. They discussed several as...