People or penguins; by William F. Baxter

This differs from the view that there is no essential difference between the pain of non-human animals and that of human beings (see Peter Singer), and also differs from the view that the pain of animals is a morally relevant consideration, but is not morally decisive (See Bonnie Steinbock). Moral consideration is a uniquely human affair. Any moral consideration of animals is in relation to humans. This book, though aimed at a law audience, contains a philosophically sophisticated stance on the topic of animal rights.īaxter maintains that non-human animals have no moral consideration on their own. In 1974, Baxter published a widely read and influential book on the law and economics of pollution control entitled People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution. As part of that practice, he is the author of Baxter's Law or the Bell Doctrine. Justice Department promulgated revised guidelines that it would use to enforce U.S. Additionally, under his leadership, the U.S.

On that same day, he dismissed as 'without merit' a seemingly endless, thirteen-year-old suit against IBM, which had employed more than 300 lawyers and generated 2,500 depositions and 66 million pages of documents. His specialty was antitrust law.Īs Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice from 1981–1983, Baxter commanded wide public attention when in 1982 he settled a seven-year-old case against AT&T with by far the largest breakup in the history of the Sherman Antitrust Act, splitting AT&T up into seven regional phone companies. (J– November 27, 1998) was a law professor at Stanford University. JSTOR ( February 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).

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People or penguins; by William F. Baxter