A Cultural Legal Studies Reflection on Tom Tyler’s Game: Animals, Video Games, and Humanity

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1 S Lucassen, ‘Animal Law as an Interdisciplinary Academic Program’ (2019) 7 Global Journal of Animal Law 1.

2 L Burazin, ‘Can There Be an Artifact Theory of Law?’ (2016) 29 Ratio Juris 385.

3 N Creutzfeldt, M Mason and K McConnachie, ‘Socio-Legal Theory and Methods: Introduction’ in N Creutzfeldt, M Mason and K McConnachie, Routledge Handbook of Socio-Legal Theory and Methods (Abingdon, Routledge, 2020) 1.

4 JL Schulz, ‘What Is Cultural Legal Studies?’ (2021) 44 Manitoba Law Journal 143, 144.

5 D Mitchell, A Pearson and TD Peters (eds), Law, Video Games, Virtual Realities: Playing Law (Abingdon, Routledge, 2023).

6 WA Adams, ‘Human Subjects and Animal Objects: Animals as “Other” in Law’ (2009) 3 Journal of Animal Law & Ethics 29, 32.

7 M Deckha, ‘Critical Animal Studies and Animal Law’ (2012) 18 Animal Law 207, 208.

8 My own work is guilty of this. See, for example, I Offor, Global Animal Law from the Margins: International Trade in Animals and their Bodies (Abingdon, Routledge, 2023).

9 CJ Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory (New York, Continuum, 2010).

10 Calarco regards the similarities between animals and humans in the direction of animal-human: We are all animals, after all: see M Calarco, Thinking Through Animals (Redwood City, Stanford University Press, 2015) 56.

11 R Braidotti, Nomadic Theory: The Portable Rosi Braidotti (New York, Columbia University Press, 2011) 82.

12 S Brooman and D Legge, Law Relating to Animals (London, Cavendish Publishing Limited, 1997) 50.

13 Y Otomo, ‘Law and the Question of the (Nonhuman) Animal’ (2011) 19 Society & Animals 383.

14 ‘Nonhuman Rights Blog’ (Nonhuman Rights Project) https://www.nonhumanrights.org/blog accessed 20 November 2023.

15 I Offor and A Cardesa-Salzmann, ‘Multispecies Lawscapes in the Anthropocene: Priorities for a Critical, Constitutional Turn in Climate Change and Biodiversity Law’ in P McCormack and R Caddell (eds), Research Handbook on Climate Change and Biodiversity Law (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, forthcoming).

16 M Calarco, ‘Identity, Difference, Indistinction’ (2012) 11 The New Centennial Review 41, 54–55.

17 MC Nussbaum, ‘The Capabilities Approach and Animal Entitlements’ in TL Beauchamp and RG Frey (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013) 247.

18 M Nussbaum, ‘Working with and for Animals: Getting the Theoretical Framework Right’ (2018) 19 Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 2.

19 Offor (n 8) 31–37.

20 Calarco (n 16) 54–55.

21 For example, the Broilers Directive 2007/43/EC [2007] Official Journal L 182/19.

22 For example, International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (adopted 12 February 1946, entered into force 10 November 1948) 161 UNTS 2124.

23 A Pepper, ‘Adapting to Climate Change: What We Owe to Other Animals’ (2019) 36 Journal of Applied Philosophy 592.

24 O Outhwaite, ‘Neither Fish, nor Fowl: Honeybees and the Parameters of Current Legal Frameworks for Animals, Wildlife and Biodiversity’ (2017) 29 Journal of Environmental Law 317, 317.

25 S Donaldson and W Kymlicka, Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013) 8.

26 D Haraway, When Species Meet (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2008) 89.