27 Facts About Gary Francione

Gary Lawrence Francione was born on May 1954 and is an American academic in the fields of law and philosophy.

Gary Francione is Board of Governors Professor of Law and Katzenbach Scholar of Law and Philosophy at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Gary Francione is the author of numerous books and articles on animal ethics.

Gary Francione graduated with a BA in philosophy from the University of Rochester, where he was awarded the Phi Beta Kappa O'Hearn Scholarship, allowing him to pursue graduate study in philosophy in the UK.

Gary Francione received his MA in philosophy and his JD from the University of Virginia, where he was articles editor of the Virginia Law Review.

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Gary Francione began to teach animal rights theory as part of his course in jurisprudence in 1985.

In 1989, Gary Francione taught the first course in an American law school on animal rights and the law.

Gary Francione has been a professor at Rutgers since at least 1995, when the New York Times reported that the Rutgers' Animal Rights Law Center, the only one in the United States, was receiving 200 calls a week, and that Gary Francione was losing "well over half the lawsuits the clinic brings", as they were taking a strict abolitionist approach.

Gary Francione is known for his work on animal rights theory, and in 1989, was the first academic to teach it in an American law school.

Gary Francione's work has focused on three issues: the property status of animals, the differences between animal rights and animal welfare, and a theory of animal rights based on sentience alone, rather than on any other cognitive characteristics.

Gary Francione is a pioneer of the abolitionist theory of animal rights, arguing that animal welfare regulation is theoretically and practically unsound, serving only to prolong the status of animals as property by making the public feel comfortable about using them.

Gary Francione argues that non-human animals require only one right, the right not to be regarded as property, and that veganism—the rejection of the use of animals as mere resources—is the moral baseline of the animal rights movement.

Gary Francione rejects all forms of violence, arguing that the animal rights movement is the logical progression of the peace movement, seeking to take it one step further by ending conflict between human and non-human animals, and by treating animals as ends in themselves.

Gary Francione has written papers on copyright, patent law, and law and science.

Gary Francione argues that we could choose to provide some greater measure of protection to animals even if they were to remain our property, but only up until the point where it becomes too costly for us to continue.

In Rain Without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement, Gary Francione argues that there are significant theoretical and practical differences between animal rights, which he maintains requires the abolition of animal exploitation, and animal welfare, which seeks to regulate exploitation to make it more humane.

Gary Francione contends that the theoretical difference between these two approaches is obvious.

Gary Francione describes as "new welfarists" those who claim to support animal rights, but who support animal welfare regulation as the primary way to achieve incremental recognition of the inherent value of nonhumans.

Central tenet of Gary Francione's philosophy is that the most important form of incremental change within the abolitionist framework is veganism.

Gary Francione has long argued that the animal rights movement is the logical extension of the peace movement and should embrace a non-violent approach.

Gary Francione rejects the position that animals have to have humanlike cognitive characteristics, such as reflective self-awareness, language ability, or preference autonomy in order to have the right not to be used by humans as resources.

Gary Francione derives this right from the principle of equal consideration in that he maintains that if animals are property, their interests can never receive equal consideration.

Gary Francione debated the sentience of plants with Michael Marder in a debate organized by Columbia University Press.

In 2008, Gary Francione opposed California's Proposition 2, which was a ballot proposition to prohibit the confinement of certain farm animals in a manner that does not allow them to turn around freely, lie down, stand up, and fully extend their limbs.

Gary Francione has been criticised for this stance by Steven Best, who refers to those in the movement who reject violence as "Franciombes" and supports the more permissive attitude to violence of groups such as Negotiation is Over.

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Gary Francione's wife, Anna E Charlton, is an adjunct professor of law at Rutgers University, is active in the same field, and has co-authored several publications with Francione.

In 2015, Gary Francione was involved in a multimillion-dollar tax dispute with the Internal Revenue Service .