Who should be included in, and who excluded from, the club of rights-holders?

The structure of the text is as follows: I shall first give a very brief account of what it means to have a right, based on the Hohfeldian view, in order to understand the common framework upon which most modern rights-theory is founded. I will then move on to explain the rationales of the use of either choice theory or interest theory in the explanation of rights. This short theoretical introduction will serve as a base for the actual question of whether animals should belong in the category of rights holders.2Determining Rights-holdersThe Case of AnimalsIn this section I will present some of the views of the aforementioned authors and critically assess and reflect on them.