Resource Library

Welcome to ICARE’s Resource Library,
a growing hub for knowledge, reflection, and advocacy in animal rights law and ethics.

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This space brings together ICARE’s original educational and research-based resources, designed to make complex legal and ethical ideas accessible while connecting theory with practice.

Continuously updated, the Resource Library serves as a shared space for students, researchers, and advocates to explore the evolving landscape of animal rights law and contribute to building a more just world for all sentient beings.

The Resource Library features

Key Concepts For Animal Rights Law

Concise explainers unpacking foundational and emerging ideas that shape the recognition and protection of animals’ interests and animal rights in law.

Legal News About Animals

Global updates and commentary on legal and policy developments affecting animals, from landmark rulings to new reforms.

AI and Animals

Reflections at the intersection of technology, artificial intelligence, animal ethics, and animal welfare and the law, exploring how innovation impacts the legal and moral status of animals and their treatment in society.

Bibliography Recommendations

Curated readings and open-access references to support learning, research, and advocacy in animal rights law and related fields.

Dive into our resources, and turn knowledge into action & advocacy into impact for animals!

Latest Legal News About Animals

  • A black bull with white horns walking on a white background, with text above and below in purple and blue fonts about Ecuador's constitutional court banning bullfights and animal-killing spectacles, and a purple logo at the bottom reading "ICARE."

    Ecuador's Constitutional court confirms Quito's power to ban bullfights and animal-killing spectacles

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  • Headline about legal news on animals, stating CJEU says companion animals are 'baggage' under Montreal Convention, with a smiling poodle, two suitcases, and the ICARE logo.

    CJEU says companion animals are 'baggage' under the Montreal Convention

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  • Cover of a publication titled 'Legal News about Animals: PRÉJUDICE ANIMALIER: HOW FRENCH COURTS ARE COMPENSATING ANIMALS OWN SUFFERING IN SEVERE CRUELTY CASES.' Features a photo of a cat and a dog sitting together, with the ICARE logo at the bottom.

    'Préjudice animalier': How French courts are compensating animals' own suffering in severe cruelty cases

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  • ICARE 'legal news' about Colombian constitutional court upholding law 2385 and expanding the ban, with a bullfighter dressed in a traditional matador costume and a red 'X' mark over the image.

    Colombian Constitutional court upholds Law 2385 'No más olé' and expands the ban

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  • Cover page of a legal news article about animals, featuring a Dalmatian dog with an open mouth and wide eyes, with the title "Animals are considered subjects of rights in Argentinean moral damage lawsuit" and the logo of ICARE.

    Animals are considered subjects of rights in Argentinean moral damage lawsuit

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  • Cover of a publication titled 'Legal News about Animals' with a subheading about France's Duplomb Law and factory farming. The cover features a group of piglets on a farm.

    France: Duplomb Law. A green light for the intensification of factory farming

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  • A cover page for a publication titled 'Legal News about Animals' with the headline 'Morocco's 2025 'Stray' Animal Reform' and an image of a resting dog, along with the ICARE logo at the bottom.

    Morocco's 2025 'stray' animal reform

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  • Two cows with racing equipment on their heads and backs, used for bullock-cart racing, on a plain white background, with a logo and text about animal rights and legal news.

    Bullock-cart racing returns to Punjab at the expense of animal rights

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  • Legal news about animals with a dog image and headline about New York court ruling on emotional harm lawsuit and companion dog Duke's death.

    Duke was family: NY Court rules emotional harm lawsuit may proceed in companion dog death

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  • Cover page of a legal publication titled "Legal News about Animals" with a headline "Argentina Judges Recognised Animals Are Subjects of Rights." Features a photo of a black French Bulldog wearing a brown collar on the bottom right corner, and the logo of ICARE at the bottom.

    Argentine judges recognised animals are subjects of rights

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  • Document titled "Legal News about Animals" from ICARE with the headline "New Petition Filed in the UK to Protect Animals Involved in Civil and Family Proceedings," featuring a photo of a ginger kitten and a tan puppy looking at each other.

    New petition filed in the UK to protect animals involved in civil and family proceedings

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  • The cover of a publication titled "Legal News about Animals" with a headline stating "Argentinean judge recognizes animals are subjects of rights". It features a horse with its mouth open, showing teeth, against a white background, with the logo and name "ICARE" at the bottom.

    Argentine judge recognises animals are subjects of rights

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  • A penguin standing on the beach with water and blurred shoreline in the background. Overlaid text reads '5 Things to Know About the African Penguin Court Settlement.' The logo for ICARE is at the bottom.

    5 things to know about the African Penguin court settlement

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  • Four cattle standing on green grass field with blue sky background. Text overlay: 'Serious legal setback: Argentina repeals 1973 ban on live cattle exports'. ICARE logo at bottom.

    Serious legal setback: Argentina repeals 1973 ban on live cattle exports

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  • A cover page with the headline 'Legal News about Animals' and the title 'Ley Empatía': Colombia Brings Animal Protection into Schools. The bottom half shows a classroom scene with a cat at a chalkboard drawing simple shapes and animals.

    'Ley Empatía': Colombia brings animal protection into schools

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Key Concepts for Animal Rights Law

Recommended Readings (2025)

You can access the full recommendations below and find the papers for all recommended readings in this folder.

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Book cover titled 'Bibliography Recommendation' with the subtitle 'The definition of non-human animal euthanasia' by Daniele Lorenzini. The cover features a photo of a dog lying on a veterinary examination table, being comforted by a woman in a clinical setting.

  • Read or download here.

Cover page of a publication titled 'Bibliography Recommendation: Indigenizing wild animal sovereignty' by Dennis Papadopoulos, featuring a photo of a deer in a forest setting, with the logo of ICARE.

  • Read or download here.

Book cover titled 'Bibliography Recommendation: An individuals-oriented approach to conservation' by Kristy Ferraro, featuring an image of a bird with a parrot's face and a bird's body covered in green moss or feathers.

  • Read or download here.

Book cover titled 'Bibliography Recommendation: Sentient Companions Classified As Baggage: How Iberia Turned Dogs Into Luggage' by Marine Lercier, featuring a small white dog in front of yellow and red suitcases on a light-colored floor in a bright room with a window and some furniture.

  • Read or download here.

Cover page of a scholarly publication with a group of adult and baby chimpanzees on green grass, surrounded by lush foliage, and the title 'In search of animal normativity: A framework for studying social norms in non-human animals' in bold blue text.

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Book cover titled "Bibliography Recommendation: Should the animal rights movement make use of deliberative activism?" by Friderike Spang, featuring a cow, pig, and dog in a formal meeting room.

  • Read or download here.

Book cover titled "Bibliography Recommendation: Animal advocacy and the radical right: The case of Sweden" by Anders Backlund and Ann-Cathrine Jungar, featuring a large deer with impressive antlers with an arrow pointing to the right.

  • Read or download here.

Book cover titled "Bibliography Recommendation" with a subtitle "Involuntary Donation: Animal Welfare and Xenotransplantation" by Sana Baban, Ashlin Amano, and Lisa Moses. The cover features a person holding a piglet with a light pink snout and ears, against a plain white background.

  • Read or download here.

Book cover titled 'Animals as Subjects of Rights: Brazil's Constitutional Blueprint' by Marina Baptista-Rosa, featuring a toucan perched on a branch.

  • Read or download here.

Book cover titled "Animals in War: At the Vanishing Point of International Humanitarian Law" by Anne Peters and J�e9r�f4me de Hemptinne, with a photo of a soldier in uniform holding a German Shepherd dog.

  • Read or download here.

Cover of a book titled 'Farmed Animal Sanctuaries: The Heart of the Movement?' with a logo of ICARE above it. The cover features a girl holding a rabbit and a goat, and a young girl reaching toward the animal with her hand.

  • Read or download here.

Book cover titled 'Addressing the will theory challenge to animal rights' by Serrin Rutledge-Prior, featuring an owl with yellow eyes on a white background, and the ICARE logo at the bottom.

  • Read or download here.

Cover of a book titled "Transformative Animal Protection" with photos of three cats at the bottom.

  • Read or download here.

Cover page of a publication titled 'ICARE Bibliography Recommendation' with the subtitle 'Assessing the Proposed Ban on Dog and Cat Meat Consumption in Indonesia: A Legal Animal Justice Perspective'. Features four different pets: a fluffy gray and white kitten, a black, white, and tan Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppy, a small tan and white Chihuahua, and a gray tabby cat.

  • Read or download here.

Book cover titled 'Bibliography Recommendation' with a subtitle about non-identity problem and animals, authors Sherry Colb and Michael Dorf, and a photo of an owl on the right side.

Book cover titled 'Bibliography Recommendation: Going Weigen: Animal Advocacy and Sustainability Intersections under Taiwan’s New Vegan Movement' by Gina Song Lopez, with an image of a colorful bird with black body, blue and green details, and a red eye, and logo at the bottom.

  • Read or download here.

Book cover with the title "Moving Away from Thinghood in Law: Animals as a New Legal Category" by Margot Michel. Features a herd of sheep and a lamb in a pasture.

  • Read or download here.

Book cover with three pigeons on concrete stairs and the title 'An analytical framework to understand the problematization of urban (historical) animals' by Claudia Towne Hirtenfelder.

  • Read or download here.

Book cover titled "Why don't politicians talk about meat? The political psychology of human-animal relations in elections" featuring a close-up of a brown cow with an ICARE logo and a blue arrow.

  • Read or download here.

Book cover titled 'Bibliography Recommendation' with the subtitle 'An Islamic framework for animal ethics: Widening the conversation to include Islamic ethical vegetarianism' by Mohamed Mukhtar and Mary-Justine Todd. Featuring an image of a young sheep on a white background and a blue arrow pointing to the right at the bottom right corner.

  • Read or download here.

Book cover titled "Bibliography Recommendation: Can Nature Hold Rights? It's Not as Easy as You Think" by Visa Kurki, with an image of a smiling llama on a white background.

  • Read or download here.

Book cover titled 'Bibliography Recommendation: Sentence and Intrinsic Worth as a Pluralist Foundation for Fundamental Animal Rights' by Jane Kotzmann, featuring a photo of a donkey with an open mouth and an arrow pointing to its body.

  • Read or download here.

Book cover titled 'Bibliography Recommendation: What is Animal Politics? Outline of a New Research Agenda' by Svenja Alhhaus and Peter Niesen, featuring a front view of a flying owl with outstretched wings.

  • Read or download here.

Book cover titled 'Centering Animality in Law and Liberation: The Zoopolitics of Reclaiming the Animal in Personhood' by Paulina Siemieniec, with an image of an ostrich on the right side.

  • Read or download here.

Book cover titled 'Bibliography Recommendation' with a subtitle 'Transition Rather Than Revolution: The Gradual Road Towards Animal Legal Personhood Through the Legislature' by Eva Bernet Kempers, featuring an image of a white owl with dark eyes on a brown perch.

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Cover page of a book titled "The Claims of Animals and the Needs of Strangers: Two Cases of Imperfect Right" by Christine Korsgaard, featuring an image of a hybrid owl with an owl's body and an owl's face with intense eyes, on a white background.

Cover of a publication titled "Bibliography Recommendation" with the subtitle "Change the world farm by farm: The moral care of audit and the paradox of animal welfare inspection in Europe." The author is Eimear Mc Loughlin. Below the text is an image of a piglet standing on a farm floor, next to a feeding trough.
Book cover titled 'All animals are conscious': Shifting the null hypothesis in consciousness science by Kristin Andrews, with an image of caterpillars on a green leaf and the ICARE logo with an arrow pointing to the right.

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Cover page of a publication showing two pigs in a dark enclosure, with the title 'Animal welfare at slaughter: perceptions and knowledge across cultures' by Michelle Sinclair and others, published by ICARE.

  • Read or download here.

Book cover titled 'Multispecies Families in Latin American Law Protecting Companion Animals with Human Constitutional Rights' by Marcia Condoy Truygue, featuring a human hand holding a cat's paw.

  • Read or download here.

Book cover titled "Veterinary ethics and companion animal euthanasia: What can we learn from critical disability studies?" by Jamie Arathoon and Lauren Van Patter, featuring a woman in white coat gently holding a golden retriever's face, both with their foreheads touching.

  • Read or download here.

Book cover titled 'Bibliography Recommendation' with a subtitle 'Becoming Symbolic: Some Remarks on the Judicial Rewriting of the Offense of Animal Abuse in Poland' by Marek Suska, featuring a bird perched on a branch and the ICARE logo with a blue arrow pointing to the right.

  • Read or download here.

Book cover titled 'Bibliography Recommendation' with the title 'Who The Judge Ate For Breakfast: On The Limits of Creativity In Animal Law And The Redeeming Power of Powerlessness' by Matthew Liebman, featuring a piglet and a blue arrow pointing to the right.

  • Read or download here.

Book cover titled 'From here to Utopia: Theories of Change in Nonideal Animal Ethics' by Nico Dario Müller, with an image of a rabbit with black and white fur leaping forward, and a purple ICARE logo at the bottom.

  • Read or download here.

Book cover titled "Bibliography Recommendation: Glass Panels and Peepholes: Nonhuman Animals and the Right to Privacy" by Angie Pepper, featuring a person with a camera and a giraffe.

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Cover of a book titled 'Beyond Sentience: Legally Recognizing Animals' Sociability and Agency' by Michael Lessard, published by ICARE, featuring a close-up of a green parrot with a white ring around its eye and its beak slightly open.

  • Read or download here.

Book cover with title "Animals as Subjects or Citizens. Can Animals Have Rights Without Duties?" by Silvina Pezzetta, featuring two budgerigars, one green and yellow, and one blue, perched on a white rod.

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Book cover titled "How Pigeons Became Rats: The Cultural-Spatial Logic of Problem Animals" by Colin Jerolmack, with image of an owl on the right side.

  • Read or download here.

Book cover titled "Human Rights Without Human Supremacy" by Will Kymlicka, with an image of an owl perched on a wire fence.

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