Wayne Hsiung (Northwestern) and Cass Sunstein (Chicago): Climate Change and Animals. From Law and Contemporary Problems, a special issue on animal law and policy. The first chapter from Ethics and the Beast: A Speciesist Argument for Animal Liberation by Tzachi Zamir. A review of Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers: Humanity and the Humane in Ancient Philosophy and Literature by Catherine Osborne. A review of Sacred Bull, Holy Cow: A Cultural Study of Civilization's Most Important Animal by Donald K. Sharpes. Animal rights, gene technology, and human breeding: An interview with Peter Sloterdijk. A look at how libertarians and conservatives part on animal cruelty laws. Pampering your little Sweet Pea to the tune of $41 billion: Owners are treating their animal companions more like humans. But the extent gives some experts pause. From Cafe Babel, a strictly US-imported “petmania” phenomenon is currently firing up the European continent.