The Legal Status of Whales: capabilities, entitlements and culture
Whales, among our planet's most majestic, mysterious, powerful, and intelligent beings, are profoundly endangered. International law has for some time attempted to protect them from extinction. Our paper addresses the legal status of whales and argues that they should be regarded as creatures w...
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ftjscielo:oai:scielo:S2177-70552016000100019 2023-05-15T15:01:26+02:00 The Legal Status of Whales: capabilities, entitlements and culture Wichert,Rachel Nussbaum Nussbaum,Martha C. 2016-04-01 text/html http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2177-70552016000100019 en eng Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Sequência (Florianópolis) n.72 2016 Animal Rights International Law Legal Status of Whales journal article 2016 ftjscielo 2016-07-03T11:40:35Z Whales, among our planet's most majestic, mysterious, powerful, and intelligent beings, are profoundly endangered. International law has for some time attempted to protect them from extinction. Our paper addresses the legal status of whales and argues that they should be regarded as creatures with rights, not simply as commodities. Currently, international law does not recognize whales as creatures with rights. International organizations, particularly the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and its founding document, the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW), have focused on the issue of overfishing and have allowed exceptions to usual standards based both on the alleged needs of scientific research (in the case of Japan) and on the alleged claims of culture (in the case of aboriginal groups in the Arctic). Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic SciELO Brazil (Scientific Electronic Library Online) Arctic |
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Whales, among our planet's most majestic, mysterious, powerful, and intelligent beings, are profoundly endangered. International law has for some time attempted to protect them from extinction. Our paper addresses the legal status of whales and argues that they should be regarded as creatures with rights, not simply as commodities. Currently, international law does not recognize whales as creatures with rights. International organizations, particularly the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and its founding document, the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW), have focused on the issue of overfishing and have allowed exceptions to usual standards based both on the alleged needs of scientific research (in the case of Japan) and on the alleged claims of culture (in the case of aboriginal groups in the Arctic). |
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The Legal Status of Whales: capabilities, entitlements and culture |
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