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The plight of animal individuals and species inflicted on them by human activity is a global problem with detrimental repercussions for
all humans and for the entire planet. This book gives an overview of the most important international legal regimes that directly address and
indirectly affect animals. It covers species conservation treaties, notably the international whaling regime, the farm animal protection rules of the
EU, international trade law and the international law of armed conflict. It also analyses the potential for an international regime of animal
rights. Finding that international law creates more harm than good for animals, the auther suggests progressive treaty interpretation, treaty
making and animal interest representation to close the animal welfare gap in international law. A body of global animal law needs to be
developed, accompanied by critical global animal studies.
Price: $25.00
Pages: 300
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill | Nijhoff
Publication Date:
23 June 2021
ISBN: 9789004466241
Format: Paperback
“In providing the first comprehensive overview of the position of animals in international law, Peters presents an original, significant, and rigorous analysis of an important, but largely ignored, topic in international law. Animals in International Law makes a lucid and compelling case for the establishment of an international norm for the global protection of animals. Animal welfare is not an issue at the fringes of international law anymore and can no longer be ignored by international lawyers. Anne Peters’s masterful analysis is not merely compelling reading material for lawyers with an interest in animal welfare. Rather it is a timely, topical, and long overdue contribution to the imminent development of international law, which must be species-blind to ensure the promotion of utopian global justice and adherence to ecological realism in a biosphere in which non-human and human animal species dwell and die alongside one another. As such, this text deserves a place on the shelf of every international lawyer.”
Werner Scholtz, The American Journal of International Law, 2023, Vol. 117:2, pp. 386-391.
Werner Scholtz, The American Journal of International Law, 2023, Vol. 117:2, pp. 386-391.
Anne Peters is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, a professor at Heidelberg, Freie Universität Berlin and Basel, and a L. Bates Lea Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan. She holds an honorary doctorate of the University of Lausanne.