Descripción
Sumario:This paper addresses the issue of Animal Law from a double perspective. Firstly, it reflects the legislative inconsistencies within the Argentine law regarding the legal status of the animal, which is mainly considered an object, on the one hand; and it exhibits the national and local jurisprudential development that recognizes the animal as a legal person -not human-, on the other hand. Secondly, this paper describes the characteristics of Animal Law that allows its incorporation as a chapter of the new paradigm of Environmental Law