Animals & Biodiversity

Think Tank Programme

Global Animal Law - International Animal Protection

Books

  • Brels, S. (2017) Le droit du bien-être animal dans le monde. L’Harmattan

  • Blackman, D. E. (1989) Animal welfare and the law. Cambridge University Press

  • Bryant, T. L., Huss, R. J., Cassuto, D. N. (2008) Animal Law and the Courts: A Reader. West Academic Publishing

  • Cao, D. (2016) Animal Law and Welfare. International Perspectives. Springer Verlag Italia

  • Chan, B. (2015) Animal Ethics, International Animal Protection and Confucianism. University of Durham John Wiley & Sons, Limited

  • Chapouthier, G., Nouët, J.-C. (1998) The Universal Declaration of Animal Rights. Comments and Intentions. Fondation Ligue Française des Droits de l’Animal

  • Cioc, M. (2009). The game of conservation: international treaties to protect the world’s migratory animals. Ohio University Press.

  • Favre, D. (2008) Animal Law: Welfare, Interests, and Rights. Aspen Publishers Inc., U.S.

  • Irwin, P.G. (2003). A strategic review of international animal protection. In D.J. Salem & A.N. Rowan (Eds.), The state of the animals II: 2003 (pp. 1-8). Washington, DC: Humane Society Press

  • Kelch, T. G. (2017). Globalization and animal law: Comparative law, international law and international trade. Kluwer Law International BV.

  • Kivinen, T. (2014) The ethics of international animal law. Helsingfors Universitet

  • Linzey, A. (2013) The global guide to animal protection. University of Illinois Press

  • Peters, A. (2020) Studies in Global Animal Law. Springer Verlag Heidelberg

  • Peters, A. (2021) Animals in International Law. Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law, Recueil des Cours vol. 410. Leiden: Brill, pp. 95-544

  • Peters, A., Kolb, R., de Hemptinne, J. (2021) Animals in the International Law of Armed Conflict. Cambridge: CUP

  • Robertson, I. A. (2015) Animals, Welfare and the Law: Fundamental Principles for Critical Assessment. Routledge

  • Steier, G. (2016) International Farm Animal, Wildlife and Food Safety Law. Springer

  • Trent, N., Edwards, S., Felt, J., O’Meara, K. (2005) International Animal Law, with a Concentration on Latin America, Asia, and Africa. In Salem, D.J. and Rowan, A. N., The State of the Animals III, pp. 65-77.

Articles

  • Blattner, C. E. (2015). Global Animal Law: Hope Beyond Illusion: The Potential and Potential Limits of International Law in Regulating Animal Matters. Mid-Atlantic J. on L. & Pub. Pol’y, 3, 10.

  • Blattner, C. (2017). Can Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Help Overcome Regulatory Gaps of Animal Law? Insights from Trophy Hunting. AJIL Unbound, 111, 419-424.

  • Bowman, M. J. (1988). The protection of animals under international law. Conn. J. Int’l L., 4, 487.

  • Brels, S. (2017). A global approach to animal protection. Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy, 20(1), 105-123.

  • Brett, A. (2017). Rights of and over Animals in the Ius Naturae et Gentium (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries). AJIL Unbound 111, 257-261

  • Chang, J. (2017). China’s Legal Response to Trafficking in Wild Animals: The Relationship between International Treaties and Chinese Law. AJIL Unbound 111, 408-412.

  • Favre, D. (2012) An International Treaty for Animal Welfare. 18 Animal L. 237.

  • Ferrero-García, J. J. (2013). The International Convention for the Protection of Birds (1902): a missed opportunity for wildlife conservation?. Ardeola, 60(2), 385-396.

  • Harrop, S. R. (2013) Wild Animal Welfare in International Law: The present position and the scope for development. Global Policy, Volume 4, Issue 4.

  • Horta, O. (2013). Expanding global justice: The case for the international protection of animals. Global policy, 4(4), 371-380.

  • Ivory, R. (2017). Corruption Gone Wild: Transnational Criminal Law and the International Trade in Endangered Species. AJIL Unbound 111, 413-418.

  • Kelch, T. G. (2016). Towards universal principles for global animal advocacy. Transnational Environmental Law, 5(1), 81-111.

  • Legge, D., Brooman, S. (2020) Reflecting on 25 years of teaching Animal Law: Is it time for an International Crime of Animal Ecocide? The Liverpool Law Review, 1-18.

  • Lurié, A., & Kalinina, M. (2015). Protecting animals in international trade: A study of the recent successes at the WTO and in Free Trade Agreements. Am. U. Int’l L. Rev., 30, 431.

  • Neumann, J.-M. (2012) The Universal Declaration of Animal Rights or the creation of a new equilibrium between species. Animal Law 19, pp. 91-109

  • Offor, I. (2020). Second wave animal ethics and (global) animal law: a view from the margins. Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 11(2), 268-296.

  • Offor, I. (2020). Animals and the Impact of Trade Law and Policy: A Global Animal Law Question. Transnational Environmental Law, 1-24.

  • Otter, C., O’Sullivan, S., Ross, S. (2012) Laying the foundations for an International Animal Protection Regime. Journal of Animal Ethics, Vol. 2, N°1, pp.53-72

  • Peters, A. (2016). Global animal law: What it is and why we need it. Transnational Environmental Law, 5(1), 9-23.

  • Peters, A. (2017). Introduction to Symposium on Global Animal Law (Part I): Animals Matter in International Law and International Law Matters for Animals. AJIL Unbound, 111, 252-256.

  • Peters, A. (2017). Introduction to Symposium on Global Animal Law, Part II: The Case for Global Legal Animal Studies. AJIL Unbound, 111, 395-396.

  • Peters, A. (2018) Rights of Human and Nonhuman Animals: Complementing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. American Journal of International Law Unbound 112, pp. 355-360.

  • Peters, A. (2020). COVID-19 Shows the Need for a Global Animal Law. In dA Derecho Animal: Forum of Animal Law Studies (Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 0086-97).

  • Stucki, S. (2017). (Certified) Humane Violence? Animal Welfare Labels, the Ambivalence of Humanizing the Inhumane, and What International Humanitarian Law Has to Do with It. AJIL Unbound, 111, 277-281.

  • Sykes, K. (2014). Sealing animal welfare into the GATT exceptions: The international dimension of animal welfare in WTO disputes. World Trade Review, 13(3), 471-498. 

  • Sykes, K. (2016) The appeal to science and the formation of Global Animal Law. European Journal of International Law, Volume 27, Issue 2, pp. 497-518.

  • Sykes, K. (2019). Global Animal Law and International Trade Law After EC-Seal Products: An Interactional Analysis.

  • Verniers, E. (2020). COVID-19 as impetus for an integrative approach to global animal welfare law. In YLRC” Governing Societal Challenges in Transformational Times”.

  • Weinberg, P. (1992). International Protection of Endangered Species: The Steps that Should Be Taken. Touro J. Transnat’l L., 3, 89.

  • White, S. (2013) Into the Void: International Law and the Protection of Animal Welfare. Global Policy, Vol 4(4), pp. 391-398

Draft International Treaties and Declarations

Reports

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