To what extent can an animal constitute a -juridical species-? This highly original book considers how animals have been integral to law and to legal thinking.
Going beyond the traditional approaches to animal rights and the question of whether non-human animals may be considered legal -subjects,- this book follows two types of animal - bears and bees - and asks what existence these species have maintained in juridical thought. Uncovering surprising roles that the animals play in the imagination of and solution to jurisprudential problems, the book offers a counter-argument to the view that juridical thought reduces one-s appreciation for the singularity and independence of their lives. It shows, rather, that the animals exert a remarkable influence on the creative dimensions of law, offering a liveliness to it that is worthy of close attention.
Contributing to new directions at the intersection of jurisprudence and human-animal studies, this book will appeal to those wi
