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Rights and Justice on a Shared Planet:

More Rights or New Relations?

University of Essex, UK

It is now widely recognized that members of other animal species and the rest of non-human nature urgently need to be protected from destructive human activities. This article evaluates the case for extending the moral and legal scope of rights as a strategy for achieving these aims. It suggests that we require a more pluralistic approach to the moral standing of non-human beings—i.e. one which does not depend entirely on the discourse of rights and its cognates—and that moral argument and legal reform need to be pursued in the context of a wider movement for far-reaching structural changes in social and economic life.

Key Words: animal rights • environment • human rights • liberalism • social reform

Theoretical Criminology, Vol. 2, No. 2, 149-175 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/1362480698002002002


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