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  • Animals as Artists: An Interdisciplinary Conversation on German Copyright Law

    Julia Kessel, Prof. Dr. Roman Bartosch
    48-59
    28-03-2025
    ... The article discusses the question of animal authorship under German copyright law and argues attention to non-western legal practice. Keywords Animal Rights, Copyright Law, Animal Philosophy, Art , but also with greater attention to non-western legal practice. Keywords Animal Rights, Copyright Law ..."
  • The Legal Protection of Animals in Sporting Events and the Case of the ‘Horse Athlete’ in Italian Law

    Roberto Garetto
    34-44
    05-02-2026
    ... The participation of animals in sporting activities varies across legal systems: while some The participation of animals in sporting activities varies across legal systems: while some The Legal Protection of Animals in Sporting Events and the Case of the ‘Horse Athlete’ in Italian The Legal Protection of Animals in Sporting Events and the Case of the ‘Horse Athlete’ in Italian Law ..."
  • Animals as Subjects of Rights: Brazil's Constitutional Blueprint

    Marina Baptista-Rosa
    146-171
    11-12-2024
    ... . Consequently, while the concept of animals as legal persons or rights holders remains an aspirational goal , while the concept of animals as legal persons or rights holders remains an aspirational goal in much , while the concept of animals as legal persons or rights holders remains an aspirational goal in much , while the concept of animals as legal persons or rights holders remains an aspirational goal in much ..."
  • Towards Legal Protection of Animal Interests: Nature-Based or Sentience-Based Approach to Animal Rights

    Zorana S. Todorović
    23-33
    05-02-2026
    ... legal protection. The paper then considers the legal status of animals and whether animals can be rights legal protection. The paper then considers the legal status of animals and whether animals can be rights Towards Legal Protection of Animal Interests: Nature-Based or Sentience-Based Approach to Animal Towards Legal Protection of Animal Interests: Nature-Based or Sentience- Based Approach to Animal Rights ..."
  • Moving Away from Thinghood in Law: Animals as a New Legal Category?

    Margot Michel
    29-43
    23-06-2023
    ... The question of what legal status animals have has preoccupied the law for centuries. Most legal Moving Away from Thinghood in Law: Animals as a New Legal Category?[1] Margot Michel * Abstract Moving Away from Thinghood in Law: Animals as a New Legal Category?1 MARGOT MICHEL * Abstract ..."
  • Against utilitarianism in animal testing law

    Eva Bernet Kempers
    12-29
    06-02-2025
    ... , providing a starting point for a multi-dimensional legal approach to the use of animals for scientific about lab animals, providing a starting point to a multi-dimensional legal approach to the use addressing this practice, the ‘standard algorithm’ underlying the legal approach to laboratory animals has algorithm’ underlying the legal approach to laboratory animals has remained relatively consistent over ..."
  • The palpable dichotomy between animal cruelty laws and implementation – Is there a way forward for Indian jurisprudence?

    Bhavya Johari
    122-134
    16-10-2024
    ... shortcomings in judicial precedents to alleviate animal suffering and protect their legal rights. By adopting in judicial precedents to alleviate animal suffering and protect their legal rights. By adopting an animal their legal rights. By adopting an animal-centric perspective, the article aims to give voice to the subaltern and protect their legal rights. By adopting an animal-centric perspective, the article aims to give voice ..."
  • Non-Cruelty to Animals: A General Principle of (Animal) Law

    Sabine Brels
    100-110
    11-07-2025
    ... unnecessary infliction of suffering on animals, is widely reflected in national legal frameworks, indicating a the unnecessary infliction of suffering on animals, is widely reflected in national legal frameworks, indicating of suffering on animals, is widely reflected in national legal frameworks, indicating a broad global consensus on animals, is widely reflected in national legal frameworks, indicating a broad global consensus against ..."
  • Symposium “Animals in Switzerland, Japan and Beyond - Thinking About Current and Future Concepts”

    Maneesha Decka, Moe Honjo
    17-07-2024
    ... On 5 March 2024, the Symposium “Animals in Switzerland, Japan and Beyond - Thinking About Current On 5 March 2024, the Symposium “Animals in Switzerland, Japan and Beyond - Thinking About Current Animals in Switzerland, Japan and Beyond – Thinking about Current and Future Legal Concepts On 5 ..."
  • The Legal Status of Animals in Islamic Law. Selected Diachronic Perspectives from fiqh to Some Contemporary Statutory Laws

    Deborah Scolart
    45-62
    05-02-2026
    ... norms to limit human dominance over animals, it stops short of granting them independent legal status norms to limit human dominance over animals, it stops short of granting them independent legal status The Legal Status of Animals in Islamic Law. Selected Diachronic Perspectives from fiqh to Some The Legal Status of Animals in Islamic Law. Selected Diachronic Perspectives from fiqh to Some ..."
  • If Rivers Have Rights, do Fish Have Rights Too? Examining the Relationship Between Rights of Nature and Animal Rights

    Eva Bernet Kempers
    4-22
    05-02-2026
    ... This article examines the intersection of the Rights of Nature (RoN) and animal rights, two This article examines the intersection of the Rights of Nature (RoN) and animal rights, two attributing legal personality and/or rights to natural entities, the inclusion of individual wild animals between RoN and animal rights, the two paradigms can (and should) be reconciled in legal practice ..."
  • Workshop Report: Implementation of the 3Rs – Regulatory Animal Testing and Current Debates on Transparency in Animal Experimentation

    Nicole Lüthi, Katerina Styokova, Sara Faizee, Margot Michel
    74-80
    23-05-2025
    ... the 3Rs in Swiss Law – Regulatory Animal Testing and Current Debates on Transparency in Animal of the 3Rs in Swiss Law – Regulatory Animal Testing and Current Debates on Transparency in Animal and transparency as a legal requirement. Keywords Regulatory Animal Testing, 3Rs, Transparency, Animal assessments and transparency as a legal requirement. Keywords Regulatory Animal Testing, 3Rs, Transparency ..."
  • Reasons to Reduce Surplus Animals in Research (in Switzerland) – Or Why the Killing and Death of Animals and Potentially Standard Husbandry Conditions Should be Classified as Harms

    Matthias Eggel, Samuel Camenzind, Paulin Jirkof
    1-15
    22-01-2026
    ... . Since surplus animals are affected by various harms, moral and legal consideration should be given to In Switzerland, approximately 1.2 million animals are used annually for scientific purposes surplus animals are affected by various harms, moral and legal consideration should be given -sentientist harms. Since surplus animals are affected by various harms, moral and legal consideration should ..."
  • What is Animal Dignity in Law?

    Visa Kurki
    9-23
    06-06-2024
    ... discusses the relationship of dignity to intrinsic value, arguing that the legal recognition of animals This essay attempts to understand dignity in the context of primarily European animal law. My on respect for animals. However, adopting dignity-premised legal regulation does not necessarily entail for animals. However, adopting dignity-premised legal regulation does not necessarily entail the abandonment ..."
  • Animal Law in France: Positive law, prospective law and learning the law of the living

    Caroline Regad, Cédric Riot
    24-34
    18-07-2024
    ... , and the law could be the best vehicle for such reflections. For our part, we believe that legal et du biocentrisme avec des droits accordés aux animaux et/ou à (des éléments de) la Nature. Notre contribution that now seems to be showing its limits: legal anthropocentrism. The law could also consider animals ] C. Riot, « Legal Personhood of Animals (I) : The case for the legal personhood of companion animals : legal anthropocentrism. The law could also consider animals (zoocentrism), in which case the question pour les animaux. 23 C. Riot, « Legal Personhood of Animals (I) : The case for the legal personhood of companion ..."
  • What and why is the "Evolutionary Scale" in Swiss Animal Welfare Law? Putting the Platypus in its Place

    Kirsten Persson, Christian Rodriguez Perez, Sebastian Hartstang, Peter Kunzmann, Bernhard Hiebl, David Shaw
    60-73
    04-04-2025
    ... In the Swiss Animal Welfare Law, paragraph 20 (2) specifically requires the selection of those In the Swiss Animal Welfare Law, paragraph 20 (2) specifically requires the selection of those was made between “higher” and “lower” animals. Legal commentaries suggest that the underlying scale ” and “lower” animals. Legal commentaries suggest that the underlying scale is somehow related to sensory ..."
  • Respect for animals to be included in French school curriculums for the first time at the start of the 2024 academic year: a step forward to be encouraged for interspecific protection

    Aloïse Quesne
    92-98
    04-09-2024
    ... d’apprentissage, il convient de souligner qu’inclure l’animal dans le programme d’enseignement moral et civique At the start of the 2024 school year, animals officially made their appearance on the new moral À la rentrée 2024, les animaux ont officiellement fait leur apparition dans les nouveaux in the absence of a separate legal regime.[9] We therefore hope that the notion of animal sensibility Le respect de l’animal inscrit pour la première fois dans les programmes scolaires français in the absence of a separate legal regime.9 We there- fore hope that the notion of animal sensibility Journal of Animal Law, Ethics and One Health (LEOH) ISSN 2813-7434 www.leoh.ch ..."
  • Considering the fate of equestrian sports after the Olympics in Paris 2024

    Małgorzata Lubelska-Sazanów
    135-145
    21-11-2024
    ... The status of animals in the modern world has significantly changed over the last decades and the stakeholders. This article aims to show the reality of animal welfare standards in modern equestrian sports . It starts off by presenting the legal foundations of using – and protecting – animals in sport, briefly ............................................................................................................................................... 136 II. The legal basis for the use of animals in sport in the EU ..."
  • Farm Animal Welfare in Breeding and Gene Editing: a Comparative Analysis of European Union and Swiss Law

    Ilaria Cimadori
    185-215
    18-12-2025
    ... welfare of various farm animal species. This paper conducts a comparative legal analysis of European Union on the welfare of various farm animal species. This paper conducts a comparative legal analysis of European Union in detrimental effects on the welfare of various farm animal species. This paper conducts a comparative legal effects on the welfare of various farm animal species. This paper conducts a comparative legal analysis ..."
  • Review: Saskia Stucki, One Rights: Human and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene

    Eva Bernet Kempers
    24-28
    23-06-2023
    ... Animal rights law is in need of an update. Many of its central theories were developed over 20 on this central idea by providing a legal-theoretical perspective on the intertwinement of human and animal rights on this central idea by provid- ing a legal-theoretical perspective on the intertwinement of human and animal ..."
  • Public Policies for Human-Fauna Relations: Convergences and Contrasts Between South America and the European Union

    Vitor Calandrini, Paulo Santos de Almeida
    24-40
    12-02-2026
    ... institutionalised regulatory model centred on animal welfare and the legal recognition of animal sentience welfare and the legal recognition of animal sentience, structured through supranational legislation centred on animal welfare and the legal recognition of animal sentience, structured through supranational ..."
  • “We Recognise the Value of Animal Experimentation, but we Recognise the Value of Animals as well”: Qualitative Insights on the Conflicting Experiences of Researchers on the Implementation of the 3Rs in Switzerland

    Edwin Louis-Maerten, Lester D. Geneviève, Helene Seaward, Bernice S. Elger
    162-184
    27-11-2025
    ... The practice of animal experimentation leads to conflicting obligations experienced by laboratory “We Recognise the Value of Animal Experimentation, but we Recognise the Value of Animals as well Journal of Animal Law, Ethics and One Health (LEOH) ISSN 2813-7434 www.leoh.ch “We ..."
  • Animal Experimentation in Basic Research – Current Discussion and Implications of the Latest Jurisprudence in Switzerland

    Nicole Lüthi, Katerina Stoykova, Margot Michel
    99-112
    12-09-2024
    ... States, towards phasing out or at least significantly reducing the use and harm of animals in research States, towards phasing out or at least significantly reducing the use and harm of animals in research and animals; there is no other justification for the associated interference with protected legal interests of humans and animals; there is no other justification for the associated interference with protected legal ..."
  • Exploring Access to Justice in Environmental Matters through the Lens of Rights of Nature and Animal Welfare (Short Paper)

    Lana Ofak
    63-71
    05-02-2026
    ... in Decision-making, and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention) as a legal framework -making, and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention) as a legal framework , its evolution in comparative legal perspectives, and the practical application of nature-based animal conver- gence with animal rights, its evolution in comparative legal perspectives, and the practical ..."
  • When Animal Welfare Meets Institutional Panic: India's Supreme Court Creates Territorial Exclusion Zones for Community Dogs

    Bhavya Johari
    16-23
    29-01-2026
    ... 's rights of nature jurisprudence, and Argentina's individual animal rights doctrine, the article 's rights of nature jurisprudence, and Argentina's individual animal rights doctrine, the article When Animal Welfare Meets Institutional Panic: India's Supreme Court Creates Territorial Exclusion Journal of Animal Law, Ethics and One Health (LEOH) ISSN 2813-7434 www.leoh.ch When ..."
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