Introduction

Legal Personhood

“…146 I myself have put forward a similar argument, as have for example Clare McCausland and Alasdair Cochrane. 147 Saskia Stucki has presented the useful distinction between simple rights and fundamental rights. According to Stucki, animals could be said to hold simple rights as a result of animal welfare laws, but not fundamental rights, meaning strong, broad and properly enforceable rights.…”