Animals in the legal system: sentient beings, patients, or moral agents?

The Law on Animal Welfare, which the Parliament has approved, as well as the recent modification of the Civil Code, have created a new category in our Law, already existing in other legal systems, to refer to non-human animals as sentient beings. This paper tries to analyze whether or not this categ...

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Main Author: José Luis Rey Pérez
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: University of Valencia 2023-06-01
Series:Cuadernos Electrónicos de Filosofía del Derecho
Online Access:https://ojs.uv.es/index.php/CEFD/article/view/26124