Studies in Global Animal Law

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Anne Peters

   Pages 1-13Open Access

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3. Historical Foundations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Rights of and Over Animals in the ius naturae et gentium (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries)

      • Annabel Brett

      Pages 17-24Open Access

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   3. On Women and Beasts: Human-Animal Relationships in Sixteenth-Century Thought

      • Anna Becker

      Pages 25-33Open Access

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   4. Animal Colonialism: The Case of Milk

      • Mathilde Cohen

      Pages 35-44Open Access

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4. Animals as Commodity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45

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   2. Trading in Sacrifice

      • Kristen Stilt

      Pages 47-55Open Access

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   3. Cross-Border Forms of Animal Use by Indigenous Peoples

      • Stefan Kirchner

      Pages 57-69Open Access

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   4. China’s Legal Response to Trafficking in Wild Animals: The Relationship between International Treaties and Chinese Law

      • Jiwen Chang

      Pages 71-79Open Access

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   5. Corruption Gone Wild: Transnational Criminal Law and the International Trade in Endangered Species

      • Radha Ivory

      Pages 81-92Open Access

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5. New Legal Concepts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93

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   2. Biodiversity, Species Protection, and Animal Welfare Under International Law

      • Guillaume Futhazar

      Pages 95-108Open Access

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   3. Toward International Animal Rights

      • Anne Peters

      Pages 109-120Open Access

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   4. (Certified) Humane Violence? Animal Production, the Ambivalence of Humanizing the Inhumane, and What International Humanitarian Law Has to Do with It

      • Saskia Stucki

      Pages 121-131Open Access

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6. New Protective Legal Strategies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133

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   2. Trophy Hunting, the Race to the Bottom, and the Law of Jurisdiction

      • Charlotte E. Blattner

      Pages 135-152Open Access

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   3. Protection of Animals Through Human Rights: The Case-Law of the European Court of Human Rights

      • Tom Sparks

      Pages 153-171Open Access

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   4. Challenges Regarding the Protection of Animals During Warfare

      • Jérôme de Hemptinne

      Pages 173-183Open Access

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This open access book contains 13 contributions on global animal law, preceded by an introduction which explains key concepts and methods. Global Animal Law refers to the sum of legal rules and principles (both state-made and non-state-made) governing the interaction between humans and other animals, on a domestic, local, regional, and international level. Global animal law is the response to the mismatch between almost exclusively national animal-related legislation on the one hand, and the global dimension of the animal issue on the other hand.

The chapters lay some historical foundations in the ius naturae et gentium, examine various aspects of how national and international law traditionally deals with animals as commodity; and finally suggest new legal concepts and protective strategies. The book shows numerous entry points for animal issues in international law and at the same time shifts the focus and scope of inquiry.

• Global Animal Law
• Animal Protection Law
• Animal Turn
• Legal Animal Studies
• Animal Welfare
• Human Rights
• Minority Rights
• Species Protection
• Biodiversity
• Ius naturae et gentium
• Open access

• Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany

  Anne Peters

​Anne Peters is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Heidelberg (Germany), and a professor at the universities of Heidelberg, Freie Universität Berlin, and Basel (Switzerland), and a William W. Cook Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan. She has been a member (substitute) of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) in respect of Germany (2011-2014) and was a legal expert for the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia (2009).She was the President of the European Society of International Law (2010-2012) and has served on the governance board of various learned societies such as the German Association of Constitutional Law (VDStRL) and the Society of International Constitutional Law (ICON S). She is currently the Vice-President of the Basel Institute of Governance (BIG), and Chairwoman of the German Association of International Law (DGIR).
Anne Peters was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin (2012/13), and held visiting professorships at the universities of Beijing (Beida), Paris I, Paris II, Sciences Po and Michigan. Born in Berlin in 1964, she studied at the universities of Würzburg, Lausanne, Freiburg, and Harvard, and held the chair of public international law at the university of Basel from 2001 to 2013. She obtained the Habilitation-qualification at the Walther-Schücking-Institute of Public International Law at the Christian Albrechts University Kiel on the basis of her Habilitation-Thesis “Elemente einer Theorie der Verfassung Europas” (Elements of a Theory of the Constitution of Europe) in 2000.
Her current research interests relate to public international law including its history, global animal law, global governance and global constitutionalism, and the status of humans in international law. She has regularly taught international law, human rights law, international humanitarian law, the law of international organizations, EU law, comparative constitutional law and constitutional theory, and Swiss constitutional law.

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