Beasts of Prey or Rational Animals? Private Governance in Brazil’s Jogo do Bicho

Beasts of the Earth: Animals, Humans, and Disease

In their new book Beasts of the Earth: Animals, Humans, and Disease, Torrey and Yolken provide us with a thoroughly researched and well-written account of the animal origins of many human diseases. With interesting insight into this very timely topic, the authors describe the impact of animals and their diseases on the rise and subsequent decline of ancient civilizations. The book traces the hi...

Men, Women and Beasts: Relations to Animals in Western Culture

Much of Western anthropology, since its origins in the 19th century, has emphasized "man the hunter" and has seen in males hunting animals the primary roots of human culture. This view has put a deep mark on exhibits in museums of anthropology and thereby on the public image of human "nature" and development. There is reason to question this view. First, humans belong to the ape family. Early h...

Rational Animals

Neither an infant one week old nor a snail is a rational creature. I f the infant survives long enough, he will probably become rational, while this is not true of the snail. If we like, we may say of the infant from the start that he is a rational creature because he will probably become rational i f he survives, or because he belongs to a species with this capacity. Whichever way we talk, the...

Private Internet Governance

Private Environmental Governance

Environmental law has quietly transformed from a positive law field deeply rooted in administrative law to one that is also heavily rooted in private law and private governance. After two decades (1970–1990) of remarkable activity, more than two decades have now passed without a major federal environmental statute (1991–2012). Whether the appropriate next step is expansion or contraction, refor...