Supplanting anthropocentric legalities: Can the rule of law tolerate intensive animal agriculture?

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dc.contributor.authorDeckha, Maneesha
dc.date.accessioned2025-12-05T19:45:23Z
dc.date.available2025-12-05T19:45:23Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThe rule of law is a concept in motion. Whether adopted as foundational to the constitutional backdrop of nation-states or circulating as a higher-order international law general principle of law, the now-transnational concept defies a fixed meaning and has been subject to multiple interpretations. Its open-endedness permits it to attend to pressing social problems and matters of justice heretofore unseen or undertheorized and which exceed its normal liberal legal parameters and colonial formation. In this contribution, I suggest that the rule of law is deployable against the planetary scourge of animal-based food systems (ABFS) and the more-than-human violence ABFS occasion. Drawing on posthuman feminist theory, the chapter contributes to the growing field of global animal law that explores animal law issues through international law and transnational law frameworks (Blattner 2019; Cao et al 2016; Peters 2020, 2017, 2016: 3–4; Stucki 2017), by highlighting the potential of the rule of law to challenge the legitimacy of at least some forms or portion of ABFS.
dc.description.reviewstatusReviewed
dc.description.scholarlevelFaculty
dc.identifier.citationDeckha, M. (2023). Supplanting anthropocentric legalities: Can the rule of law tolerate intensive animal agriculture? In M. Arvidsson & E. Jones (Eds.), International Law and Posthuman Theory (pp. 258–278). https:// doi.org/10.4324/9781032658032-15
dc.identifier.isbn9781032658032
dc.identifier.urihttps:// doi.org/10.4324/9781032658032-15
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/22956
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject.departmentFaculty of Law
dc.titleSupplanting anthropocentric legalities: Can the rule of law tolerate intensive animal agriculture?
dc.typeBook chapter

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