All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property

Francione is the author or co-author of several books about animal rights including The Animal Rights Debate: Abolition or Regulation? (2010 with Robert Garner) Animals as Persons (2008) Rain Without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement (1996) and Animals Property and the Law (1995). He is the DistinguiGary L. Francioned Professor of Law and Nicholas deB.