O perspectivă juridică asupra homarului (şi a animalului, în general)
A Legal Perspective on the Lobster (and Animal, in General)

Summary/Abstract: Few of us could deny law’s centredness as an instrument of progress and improvement of social life or morality in our culture. Let us refer only to its evolutions in the field of animal welfare, which have lately proliferated. But, the world is variously constituted, by different cultures and civilizations, and we cannot know who, what or why will be privileged at some point in time. And the lobster is no exception to the rule what is prohibited by one society is black letter law in another and, in general, regulations on this species of res nullius are rare. Is it all right to boil a sentient creature alive just for our gustatory pleasure? Is this thing just a matter of personal choice? What role should law play in the protection and welfare of the lobster? is the short list of questions that this paper will attempt to answer. In one way or another, its arguments are, however, valid for all the animals, and ultimately tend to support that small part of literature that advocates the development of the critical dimension of law, in the face of the complex disruptions of our contemporary world.

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