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Animal Legal Defense Fund
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.

Rutgers University School of Law - Animal Rights Law Project
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.

Bindman and Partners
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.

Society for Animal Protective Legislation
Status of legislation and how to lobby for laws. Action alerts, pending legislation, Congress scorecard and news. Washington DC, US.

World Animal Net: - Animal Protection Law
Links to books, resources and contacts for animal protection legislation at regional, national and international levels.

Council of Europe: Protection of Animals Treaties
Information of each treaty, including the full text, chart of signatures and ratifications, list of declarations and reservations, summary and explanatory report.

AnimalLaw.com
Provides a database of animal welfare and animal rights from pending legislation through relevant case law digests. From the National Anti-Vivisection Society, Chicago.

Institute for Animal Rights Law
Providing legal information, analysis, and guidance for the animal rights movement. Group's background, articles, and model statutes.

DEFRA Wildlife and Countryside Division
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 Rural Affairs.

The Chimps' Day in Court
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.






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