Gary L. Francione

Gary L. Francione is Distinguished Professor of Law and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Scholar of Law and Philosophy at Rutgers University School of Law. In addition to Animals as Persons, he is the author of Animals, Property, and the Law (1995); Rain Without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement (1996); and Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog? (2000). His forthcoming book, The Animal Rights Debate: Abolition or Regulation?, will be published in March 2010 by Columbia University Press. Francione is also co-editor, with Gary Steiner, of Columbia University Press’s new series, Critical Perspectives on Animals: Philosophy, Politics, Law, and Culture.