摘要
随着德国民法典第 90a条的修正 ,“动物不是物”的规定对法学界带来了巨大的冲击 ,另有环境伦理学有关动物成为权利主体主张的提出 ,似乎动物取得人格权 ,成为权利主体的现实就在面前。但环境伦理学的主张并不能等同于法律学的主张 ,法律人格无法扩张至动物。奥地利、德国、瑞士等国民法典的修正主旨并不是赋予动物以法律人格。不过对动物的法律保护必须加强 ,在民法中应当将其作为一类特殊的物来对待 ,在法律规则的适用上有别于普通物。
s: With the revision of the clause 90a of German Civil Code, the regulation that animals are not things has brought giant influence to the world of law. What's more, in environmental ethics some advocate that animals are already subjects of the rights. It seems that animals' traditional status as objects of the rights were changing so that animals would soon get personal rights as subjects of rights. However, the arguments in environmental ethics couldn't amount to those in the law science, legal personality being unable to extend to animals, and the relevant revisions of Civil Codes in Austria, German and Switzerland have nothing with the animals' legal personalities. On the other hand, the protection of animals must be strengthened. Animals should be treated as a kind of special thing in civil law, applicable to rules different from those to ordinary things.
出处
《法学研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2004年第5期86-102,共17页
Chinese Journal of Law
