<- Covergirl, Kristy James. The plight of greyhounds in Australia (as elsewhere) is truly bleak. If you would like to do something to help the beautiful goofballs who are lucky enough to survive the greyhound racing industry, Greyhound Rescue is one of the many hardworking organisations that need your support.

Multispecies Legality

Animals and the Foundation of Legal Inclusion

(Cambridge University Press, 2025)

Animals are unfortunately an afterthought in legal systems that have been developed to adjudicate the claims of humans and corporate entities. For those of us determined to extend the scope of justice to include animals, we must ask how to reshape our legal institutions to ensure that animal interests are considered alongside those of other, existing legal subjects. In this work, I depart from those who have proposed to extend legal personhood to animals, which in practice has proven to be exclusionary and inconsistently applied by the courts. Instead, I offer a new principle to ground legal inclusion based on a principle of multispecies legality that extends legal subjecthood to anyone – human or nonhuman – who possess interests.