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Legal

This category lists sites related to legal aspects of animal welfare and rights, including cases and materials, legal watch groups, analysis, related books and resources.

• - Dedicated to developing legal scholarship and advocacy skills on behalf of animals. Offers news and resources along with details of programs, awards, grants and their board of directors.
  
• - Provides a database of animal welfare and animal rights from pending legislation through relevant case law digests. From the National Anti-Vivisection Society, Chicago.
  
• - Information of each treaty, including the full text, chart of signatures and ratifications, list of declarations and reservations, summary and explanatory report.
  
• - Civil liberties solicitors specializing in defence of eco-protestors, animal rights activists and those arrested for direct action or participation in mass demonstrations in the UK.
  
• - Planned repository of a full set of legal material relating to animals for all levels in the US, foreign national and international. Includes case law, policies, journals, publications and historical materials.
  
• - Animal rights law organization based in California. Programs include civil litigation, working to enact state felony anti-cruelty statutes, and the Great Ape Legal Program, dedicated to winning legal rights for great apes.
  
• - Office of Michael Rotsten, attorney at law, specializing in animal rights cases. California.
  
• - Student-run law review at Lewis and Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon.
  
• - Legal center working to ensure that environmental laws and ordinances are applied for the benefit of animals. Contains descriptions of major cases handled and clients.
  
• - About animal rights law, cases and materials, handbooks online, statutes and regulations. An academic project of Professor Gary Francione and Adjunct Professor Anna E. Charlton.
  
• - Federal and state legislation currently in progress, scorecards for members of congress, how to lobby effectively and how to get involved. From the Humane Society of the United States. US.
  
• - Status of legislation and how to lobby for laws. Action alerts, pending legislation, Congress scorecard and news. Washington DC, US.
  
• - Providing legal information, analysis, and guidance for the animal rights movement. Group's background, articles, and model statutes.
  
• - Review by Cass R. Sunstein of 'Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals' by Steven M. Wise, a book advocating legal personhood for animals.
  
• - Laws, regulations and information about the Wildlife and Countryside Directorate, CITES, English and European Wildlife Issues, Global Wildlife and Zoos, Wildlife Crime and Inspection, grants and research. From the UK Department for Environment, Food and
  
• - Links to books, resources and contacts for animal protection legislation at regional, national and international levels.
  
• - New Zealand Animal Rights group made up of lawyers and law students interested in furthering animal rights issues.
  
  

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