Global Animal Law

What It Is and Why We Need It

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ID4609996
AuthorsAnne Peters (0000-0002-2779-0626)
Year2016
Volume5
Issue1
Pages9-23
Publication date2016-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTransnational Environmental Law (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2047-1025 • E-ISSN: 2047-1033
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s2047102516000066
OpenAlexW2460088707
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited15

The symposium collection in this issue ofTEL, consisting of four articles including this framing article, seeks to conceptualize and flesh out a new branch of law and legal research: global animal law. The starting hypothesis is that contemporary animal law must be global or transnational (that is, both transboundary and multilevel) in order to be effective. In times of globalization, all aspects of (commodified) human−animal interactions (from food production and distribution, working animals and uses in research, to breeding and keeping of pets) possess a transboundary dimension. Animal welfare has become a global concern, which requires global regulation. This foreword introduces the three symposium articles, sketches out the research programme of global animal law and links its emergence to the ongoing 'animal turn' in the social sciences, including political philosophy

Animal welfare · Biology · Commodification · Economics · Environmental ethics · Framing (construction · Geography · Globalization · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Environmental law and policy · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law

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