Title:
Law and Protest at the Periphery of Democracy
Subtitle:
Evaluating Legal Responses to Animal Activism and Undercover Footage
Translated Title(s):
Recht und Protest am Rand der Demokratie
Author(s):
Braun, Katharina
Year of publication:
2024
Available Date:
2025-01-06T11:07:47Z
Abstract:
When animal rights activists enter farms or laboratories, they pose particular challenges for the law. How can the ethical motives of the activists be adequately taken into account in the legal assessment without giving them carte blanche for otherwise unlawful behaviour? This dissertation analyses, evaluates and compares the legislation and jurisprudence in Germany and other jurisdictions, particularly in the United States. In so doing, it incorporates the findings and methods of political theory alongside the legal assessment. The principles developed lay a foundation for a nuanced legal assessment of protest movements and methods on the limits of legality.
Part of Identifier:
e-ISSN (online): 0172-4770
Keywords:
comparative law
normative jurisprudence
democratic theory
animal activists
DDC-Classification:
340 Recht
Publication Type:
Dissertation
URL of the Original Publication:
DOI of the Original Publication:
Publisher Place:
Baden-Baden
Department/institution:
Rechtswissenschaft
Series/Multivolume:
Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht
Series/Multivolume Number:
337