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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 June 2025
This chapter introduces several examples from the Australian state of New South Wales that highlight the various institutional barriers in the way of legal redress that currently face animals who are subject to cruel treatment. These examples highlight how apparent animal abuse often goes un-investigated and unprosecuted, and how those who seek to help abused or neglected animals may themselves be threatened with legal penalties. The chapter then addresses the question of why, from the perspective of political justice, we should care about this state of affairs and why, therefore, we might be obligated to seek institutional reform on behalf of the other animals that form a part of our multispecies community. We are, finally, introduced to the book’s proposed Principle of Multispecies Legality, which aims to provide a foundation for the legal subjectivity of animals and all those beings and entities that have interests.
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