@article{318259d1b4fa48cfb3edd4aecc27f9cd,
title = "Beyond Law's Anthropocentrism. A Sociolegal Reflection on Animal Law and the More-than-human Turn",
abstract = "In this explorative paper, we examine the emerging body of scholarship that has recently started incorporating more-than-human perspectives in the nexus of law, society, and animals. While {\textquoteleft}more-than-human{\textquoteright} refers to a plurality of theoretical positions, for our purpose we take these positions to reflect the attempt to move away from human exceptionalism in favour of a multispecies account of the world, which reflects the social, political, and ethical significance of nonhuman animals. Our objectives as we investigate the potential of more-than-human law are threefold: (a) to review recent developments in legal and sociolegal research that adopt a more-than-human framework, (b) to bring this strand of more-than-human studies into conversation with animal law scholarship, and (c) to explore how sociology of law{\textquoteright}s empirical tradition can contribute to such conversations.",
keywords = "Animal Law, More-than-human, Sociology of Law, Multispecies, Anthropocentrism, Politics of Care, Legal geography",
author = "Marie Leth-Espensen and M{\aa}ns Svensson",
year = "2021",
language = "English",
volume = "67",
pages = "35--50",
journal = "Scandinavian Studies in Law",
issn = "0085-5944",
publisher = "Stockholm Institute for Scandinavian Law",
}