Animals as Legal Subjects
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There is a debate among legal scholars in relation to whether legal subjects and legal persons as concepts are synonymus. To say that they are not, allows to state that the ideal term to legally argue that animals have or may have rights is that of the legal subject and not the legal person. As a fundamental legal concept, the legal subject constitutes an expression that has a greater breadth of content and is not related only to human beings or with components traditionally attributed to the legal person. This approach avoids confronting doctrinal resistances for ascribing rights to animals based on the formula humans=persons=rights.
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Nava Escudero, César. “Animals as Legal Subjects”. DA. Derecho Animal. Forum of Animal Law Studies, vol.VOL 10, no. 3, pp. 47-68, https://raco.cat/index.php/da/article/view/360183.
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