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Animals as Outlier

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doi:10.4324/9781003596837-13
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Maneesha Deckha · Renee Rogers
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2026
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Despite recent legal challenges seeking to elevate animals’ legal status and improve their conditions of existence and growing public awareness of the need to question human exceptionalism, little legal reform for animals has been successful. This heightens the need for new legal strategies and arguments to influence the law in favor of animals. One such argument could be based on the revered concept of the rule of law , pointing out the arbitrariness of animals’ legal treatment as property when other nonhumans are legal persons. Taking Canadian law as a departure point, this chapter articulates legal grounds for considering the ongoing denial of personhood and rights to animals as a rule-of-law violation given that other nonhumans have enjoyed such elevated and protected legal status for centuries. Corporations, ships, and municipalities, for example, have been legal persons for a long time. Recently, the province of Quebec has recognized a river as a legal person. Notably, animals do not figure in this cohort of nonhumans who are legal persons. This chapter probes the effect of this disparity to ask: Is the rule of law, which serves as a minimum shield against government tyranny and arbitrariness in laws and decision-making, offended by the differential treatment of animals vis-à-vis other nonhumans ? We argue that it is reasonable to view animals’ much lower status among nonhumans as “arbitrary” and thus discordant with the rule of law. This analysis thus contributes to the growing advocacy-focused literature seeking to pair the rule of law with the plight of animals.

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10.4324/9781003596837-13

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Maneesha Deckha; Renee Rogers. Animals as Outlier. 2026. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003596837-13

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Maneesha Deckha; Renee Rogers. (2026). Animals as Outlier. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003596837-13
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Maneesha Deckha; Renee Rogers. Animals as Outlier. 2026. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003596837-13
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Maneesha Deckha; Renee Rogers. Animals as Outlier. 2026. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003596837-13

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Maneesha Deckha

Renee Rogers

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