Placing New Insight into Animal Law Development

Abstract

This paper seeks to contribute to the development of animal law discussion. The article first introduces the ecology prevailing dialogue between ecology and law through introducing and compiling four groupings of work that together have produced this dialogue. It then outlines the ecological critique of orthodox legality, and the consequent assumption by ecology of the problematic of legality and social organisation. It argues that in this dialogue affective assemblage theory has developed as a pre-prepared place for the animal in the dialogue as an affective body of intensities in a complex social-ecological assemblage. At its broadest, the implication of taking up this dialogue would be to allow for animal lawyers to more knowingly place themselves in the vanguard of an emerging new relationship between humans, animals, and Earth.