{"id":"https://openalex.org/W7126039039","doi":"https://doi.org/10.58590/leoh.2026.002","title":"When Animal Welfare Meets Institutional Panic: India's Supreme Court Creates Territorial Exclusion Zones for Community Dogs","display_name":"When Animal Welfare Meets Institutional Panic: India's Supreme Court Creates Territorial Exclusion Zones for Community Dogs","publication_year":2026,"publication_date":"2026-01-29","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W7126039039","doi":"https://doi.org/10.58590/leoh.2026.002"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.58590/leoh.2026.002","doi":"https://doi.org/10.58590/leoh.2026.002","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.58590/leoh.2026.002","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4387290651","display_name":"LEOH - Journal of Animal Law Ethics and One Health","issn_l":"2813-7434","issn":["2813-7434"],"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":true,"is_core":false,"listed_in":["doaj","jufo-1","norway-1"],"host_organization":null,"host_organization_name":null,"host_organization_lineage":[],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by-nd","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by-nd","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"LEOH - Journal of Animal Law, Ethics and One Health","raw_type":"journal-article"},"volume":null,"type":"article","is_traditional":true,"indexed_in":["crossref","doaj"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"diamond","oa_url":"https://doi.org/10.58590/leoh.2026.002","any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5114293187","display_name":"Bhavya Johari","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3639-0118","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3639-0118"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210129200","display_name":"O. P. Jindal Global University","ror":"https://ror.org/03j2ta742","country_code":"IN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210129200"]}],"countries":["IN"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Bhavya Johari","raw_affiliation_strings":["Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, India"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3639-0118","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, India","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210129200"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":1,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5114293187"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210129200"],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":9.0503,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":1,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.94104131,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":91,"max":95},"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":"16","last_page":"23"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14206","display_name":"Animal Law and Welfare","score":0.9868000149726868,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3308","display_name":"Law"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14206","display_name":"Animal Law and Welfare","score":0.9868000149726868,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3308","display_name":"Law"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12332","display_name":"Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies","score":0.002899999963119626,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3320","display_name":"Political Science and International Relations"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12895","display_name":"Environmental law and policy","score":0.002099999925121665,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3308","display_name":"Law"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/animal-welfare","display_name":"animal welfare","score":0.6880000233650208},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/animal-dignity","display_name":"animal dignity","score":0.6029999852180481},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/supreme-court-of-india","display_name":"Supreme Court of India","score":0.6290000081062317},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/judicial-populism","display_name":"judicial populism","score":0.7409999966621399},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/rabies-prophylaxis","display_name":"rabies prevention","score":0.6859999895095825},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/proportionality","display_name":"proportionality","score":0.5519999861717224},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/rights-of-nature","display_name":"rights of nature","score":0.9869999885559082},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/constitutional-law","display_name":"constitutional law","score":0.33899998664855957},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/india","display_name":"India","score":0.6859999895095825}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2778745096","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q274782","display_name":"Dignity","level":2,"score":0.7109000086784363},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C199539241","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7748","display_name":"Law","level":1,"score":0.5758000016212463},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2775884135","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q845436","display_name":"Mandate","level":2,"score":0.5656999945640564},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2778272461","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190752","display_name":"Supreme court","level":2,"score":0.5527999997138977},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C17744445","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36442","display_name":"Political science","level":0,"score":0.5238000154495239},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C190253527","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q295354","display_name":"Law and economics","level":1,"score":0.44359999895095825},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C169437150","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8458","display_name":"Human rights","level":2,"score":0.4242999851703644},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C183763965","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q603959","display_name":"Proportionality (law)","level":2,"score":0.4189000129699707},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C48103436","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q599031","display_name":"State (computer science)","level":2,"score":0.41339999437332153},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C182306322","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1779371","display_name":"Order (exchange)","level":2,"score":0.384799987077713},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2778645526","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q32766","display_name":"Constitutional court","level":3,"score":0.3772999942302704},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C100243477","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12002092","display_name":"Welfare","level":2,"score":0.3709999918937683},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2778428725","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q764822","display_name":"Constitutional review","level":3,"score":0.3628999888896942},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C18650270","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11206","display_name":"Constitutional law","level":2,"score":0.31869998574256897},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C48764862","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q898871","display_name":"Judicial review","level":2,"score":0.3156999945640564},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C144024400","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21201","display_name":"Sociology","level":0,"score":0.29899999499320984},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2776261394","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q315562","display_name":"Impossibility","level":2,"score":0.29089999198913574},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C523966790","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q459426","display_name":"Animal welfare","level":2,"score":0.2872999906539917},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2780300103","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2068570","display_name":"Constitutional right","level":3,"score":0.2784999907016754},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2779010840","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131569","display_name":"Treaty","level":2,"score":0.2757999897003174},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2777351106","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49371","display_name":"Legislation","level":2,"score":0.26989999413490295},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C533735693","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q204886","display_name":"Federalism","level":3,"score":0.26840001344680786},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C538525177","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q426","display_name":"Animal rights","level":2,"score":0.2542000114917755}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.58590/leoh.2026.002","doi":"https://doi.org/10.58590/leoh.2026.002","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.58590/leoh.2026.002","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4387290651","display_name":"LEOH - Journal of Animal Law Ethics and One Health","issn_l":"2813-7434","issn":["2813-7434"],"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":true,"is_core":false,"listed_in":["doaj","jufo-1","norway-1"],"host_organization":null,"host_organization_name":null,"host_organization_lineage":[],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by-nd","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by-nd","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"LEOH - Journal of Animal Law, Ethics and One Health","raw_type":"journal-article"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"doi:10.58590/leoh.2026.002","doi":"https://doi.org/10.58590/leoh.2026.002","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.58590/leoh.2026.002","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4387290651","display_name":"LEOH - Journal of Animal Law Ethics and One Health","issn_l":"2813-7434","issn":["2813-7434"],"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":true,"is_core":false,"listed_in":["doaj","jufo-1","norway-1"],"host_organization":null,"host_organization_name":null,"host_organization_lineage":[],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by-nd","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by-nd","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"LEOH - Journal of Animal Law, Ethics and One Health","raw_type":"journal-article"},"sustainable_development_goals":[{"id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/16","score":0.9595999717712402,"display_name":"Peace, justice, and strong institutions"}],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":0,"referenced_works":[],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W7161154816","https://openalex.org/W7212221310","https://openalex.org/W7213445510","https://openalex.org/W4417310414","https://openalex.org/W7128628890","https://openalex.org/W7135065317","https://openalex.org/W7084297089","https://openalex.org/W4416193752","https://openalex.org/W7128960308","https://openalex.org/W7127613062"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"This":[0],"short":[1],"article":[2,62,140],"examines":[3],"the":[4,28,61,130,139,142,161],"Indian":[5],"Supreme":[6],"Court\u2019s":[7],"November":[8],"2025":[9],"order":[10],"establishing":[11],"permanent":[12],"territorial":[13,67,91,115],"exclusion":[14],"zones":[15],"for":[16,38,84],"sterilized":[17],"and":[18,32,55,86,120,153],"vaccinated":[19],"community":[20],"dogs":[21],"in":[22,104],"institutional":[23,78],"spaces,":[24],"while":[25,80,157],"simultaneously":[26,151],"affirming":[27],"Catch,":[29],"Neuter,":[30],"Vaccinate,":[31],"Release":[33],"method":[34],"as":[35],"scientifically":[36],"sound":[37],"general":[39],"urban":[40],"areas.":[41],"Through":[42],"comparative":[43],"constitutional":[44,72,102,134,155],"analysis":[45,97],"of":[46,52,74,144],"Germany's":[47],"proportionality":[48],"framework,":[49],"Ecuador's":[50],"rights":[51,59],"nature":[53],"jurisprudence,":[54],"Argentina's":[56],"individual":[57],"animal":[58,75],"doctrine,":[60],"demonstrates":[63],"how":[64],"this":[65],"two-tiered":[66],"system":[68],"subordinates":[69],"Article":[70],"51A(g)'s":[71],"mandate":[73],"dignity":[76,106],"to":[77,136,147],"expedience,":[79],"paradoxically":[81],"reducing":[82],"protection":[83],"children":[85],"patients":[87],"from":[88,132],"rabies":[89],"through":[90,114],"replacement":[92,116],"by":[93,117],"unvaccinated":[94,118],"populations.":[95],"The":[96],"reveals":[98,141],"three":[99],"interconnected":[100],"failures:":[101],"incoherence":[103],"applying":[105],"protections":[107],"based":[108],"solely":[109],"on":[110],"geography,":[111],"epidemiological":[112],"counterproductivity":[113],"populations,":[119],"structural":[121],"impossibility":[122],"given":[123],"India's":[124],"shelter":[125],"capacity":[126,143],"deficit.":[127],"By":[128],"tracing":[129],"trajectory":[131],"August's":[133],"restoration":[135],"November's":[137],"reversal,":[138],"judicial":[145],"populism":[146],"create":[148],"precedents":[149],"that":[150,160],"uphold":[152],"undermine":[154],"principles,":[156],"imposing":[158],"obligations":[159],"state":[162],"cannot":[163],"fulfill.":[164]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":1}],"updated_date":"2026-10-28T10:33:24.094632","created_date":"2026-01-30T00:00:00"}