ABSTRACT
This chapter represents the legal struggles currently waged in the arena of administrative law between private owners of exotic animals and the activists and animal welfare lawyers who seek to have relocated to sanctuaries. The realm of animal sacer comprises the alterity that defines and makes possible the liberal subject". The chapter argues the biopolitical distinction and within the zone of exception at the center of the anthropological machine, bare life recursively fractures into the man/animal, human/inhuman oppositions it produces: homo sacer/animal sacer. Specifically, Braverman focuses on three elements of pastoral power as it relates to zoos. As the chapter illustrates law conflagrations within the "great battle of pastorship". It is true that the animal welfare advocates attempting to help animals through administrative law interventions differ from zoos in how they perform the elements of pastoral power. The type of administrative law describes here use legal tools designed to benefit multiplicities of animals in order to benefit specific individuals.
