This essay explores virtue ethical concepts in the context of animal law theory and practice. For reasons discussed in the essay, virtue ethics may not, on its own, serve as an adequate foundation for general anticruelty statutes, but it may have application in those contexts in which sufficient sharing of values enables participants in legal reform to work through differences in moral commitme...

A widely accepted idea of clinical science is that it seeks the truth and that the knowledge acquired should be of benefit to patients. Therefore, as clinical researchers, we give response to two concerns deeply rooted in the human nature: The desire to know and the need to help someone suffering. However, the ideas and values that sustain clinical research, and take it to its most genuine obje...