Animal law

Examples of this intersection include: A growing number of state and local bar associations now have animal law committees.

[9] In this capacity, Goetschel attempted to ensure that Swiss animal protection laws, which are among the strictest in the world,[10] were correctly enforced.

According to Tagore Trajano Silva:The foregoing groups have contributed to the progress and redesign of the curricula of law schools in Brazil.

The next step is the formation of a solid political base in order to generate effective legislative change, and thus the realization of animal law.

During the year 2013, events were organized, focusing on the need to mobilize the Brazilian legislature to attend to the issue of animals.

As a result, in 2014, Brasilia, the Brazilian political capital, will hold the fourth World Conference, with the theme Posthumanism: challenges and perspectives.

[15]Books on the subject for this geographical area include: Animal law is being taught in a few European universities in Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

It aims to provide students knowledge of animals in the fields of law, ethology, nutrition and welfare, ethical dimensions, artistic representations and entertainment, organization and social responsibility.

[17] UAB also offers an online Master's in Animal Law and Society, and is currently accepting applications for its fifth edition (Jan. 2019 – Oct.

A decade later, Germany guaranteed rights to animals in a 2002 amendment to its constitution, becoming the first European Union member to do so.

The Seattle-based Great Ape Project (GAP) – founded by Australian philosopher Peter Singer, the author of Animal Liberation, widely regarded as the founding philosophical work of the animal liberation movement[26] – is campaigning for the United Nations to adopt its Declaration on Great Apes, which would see chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans included in a "community of equals" with human beings.

New Zealand has effectively phased out live exports for slaughter purposes since 2007 due to concerns about animals.