Articles and Legal Analyses
 

These resources describe the legal and constitutional deficiencies of AETA and similar legislation, and their likely current and future effects on advocacy.

 

AETA–EJA’s Summary Analysis

 

Law Journal Articles/Editorials

 

Jared S. Goodman, Shielding Corporate Interests from Public Dissent:  An Examination of the Undesirability and Unconstitutionality of “Eco-Terrorism” Legislation, 16 J. L. & Pol'y 823 (2008)

 

David Hoch and Odette Wilkens, Response to Andrew Kohn: The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act is Invidiously Detrimental to the Animal Rights Movement (and Unconstitutional as Well), 2007, Vt. J.Envtl. L.

      David Hoch and Odette Wilkens are Project Censored award recipients.

 

Dara Lovitz, Animal Lovers and Tree Huggers Are the New Cold-Blooded Criminals?: Examining the Flaws of Ecoterrorism Bills, 3 Mich. St. Animal L. 79 (2007)

 

Kimberly E. McCoy, Subverting Justice: An Indictment of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, 14 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. Animal L. J. 1

 

Andrew N. Ireland Moore, Caging Animal Advocates’ Political Freedoms: The Unconstitutionality Of The Animal And Ecological Terrorism Act, 11 Mich. St. Animal L. 255 (2005)

 

Articles

 

Laura Allen, How the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act was Maneuvered Through Congress with Little Opposition, "Animal Law Coalition" August 1, 2007

 

Jerry Friedman, Why the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act Became Law, January 2007,  Animals Voice

 

Odette Wilkens, Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act: Civil Rights at Risk, May 21, 2007, American Constitution Society Blog

 

Odette Wilkens, The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, Oct. 27, 2008, Enclyclopaedia Britannica’s Advocacy for Animals

 

Katrina Albright Hummel, The American Legislative Council’s attack on civil liberties:

A critical analysis of the “Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act” and “Environmental Corrupt Organizations – Preventative Legislation and Neutralization Act,” 2004, Legal Fellow, Defenders of Wildlife.

 

Will Potter, Analysis of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, October 10, 2006

 

Will Potter, Animal Enterprise Terrorism 101 in Herbivore Magazine, November 17,  2007

 

Civil Liberties Associations

 

National Lawyers Guild (NLG), Beyond AETA:  How Corporate-Branded Legislation Brands Activists, Andy Parker

 

National Lawyers Guild Talking Points

 

National Lawyers Guild Opposition Statement

 

Center for Constitutional Rights, The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act,

 

Other Opposition Statements

 

The Humane Society of the United States

 

 

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