Legal scholarship addressing the protection of animals, including companion animals, is a
vibrant and growing field in Australia and beyond. However, limited scholarly attention has
so far been directed to the regulatory studies literature and the insights it may provide about
standards, standard-setting, compliance monitoring and enforcement for animal protection. I
explore how the legal forms of the prevailing governing norm of humaneness function as
regulatory standards in a companion animal context. Given the intrinsic moral worth of …