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This open access book contains 13 contributions on global animal law, preceded by an introduction which explains key concepts and methods. Global Animal Law refers to the sum of legal rules and principles (both state-made and non-state-made) governing the interaction between humans and other animals, on a domestic, local, regional, and international level. Global animal law is the response to the mismatch between almost exclusively national animal-related legislation on the one hand, and the global dimension of the animal issue on the other hand. The chapters lay some historical foundations in the ius naturae et gentium, examine various aspects of how national and international law traditionally deals with animals as commodity; and finally suggest new legal concepts and protective strategies. The book shows numerous entry points for animal issues in international law and at the same time shifts the focus and scope of inquiry.

Introduction -- Part I: Historical Foundations -- Rights of and Over Animals in the ius naturae et gentium (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries) -- On Women and Beasts: Human-Animal Relationships in Sixteenth-Century Thought -- Animal Colonialism: The Case of Milk -- Part II: Animals as Commodity -- Trading in Sacrifice -- Cross-Border Forms of Animal Use by Indigenous Peoples -- China's Legal Response to Trafficking in Wild Animals: The Relationship between International Treaties and Chinese Law -- Corruption Gone Wild: Transnational Criminal Law and the International Trade in Endangered Species -- Part III -- New Legal Concepts.-Biodiversity, Species Protection, and Animal Welfare Under International Law -- Toward International Animal Rights -- (Certified) Humane Violence? Animal Production, the Ambivalence of Humanizing the Inhumane, and What International Humanitarian Law Has to Do with It -- Part IV: New Protective Legal Strategies: Trophy Hunting, the Race to the Bottom, and the Law of Jurisdiction -- Protection of Animals Through Human Rights: The Case-Law of the European Court of Human Rights -- Challenges Regarding the Protection of Animals During Warfare.

Extract: The theme of this Special Topic Edition is animal law education at the tertiary level. Animal law as a discipline refers to the laws governing the human/non-human animal relationship. The study of animal law encompasses a broad range of laws, and raises a unique variety of legal, philosophical, scientific and political issues. Through studying animal law, students gain an understanding of how and why the law facilitates differential treatment of animals according to context, and encourages them to consider the ethical consistency of our approach to animal protection. It involves questioning the adequacy of the laws, policies, and regulatory structures addressing animal welfare, leading to discussions about law reform. These discussions extend to consideration of arguments to reform the very legal status of animals as human property.

This note follows up on our survey of animal law in Kazakhstan published in the Global Journal of Animal Law in 2013. The last five years in Kazakhstan have been particularly fruitful in terms of legislative innovations in animal law, with about 100 new legal acts. The sectors which were most affected are regulations about agricultural animals and regulations about companion animals. Some new legal acts concern animals in general. This increase in legislation is connected with Kazakhstan's membership in the WTO and in the Eurasian Economic Union, and with a qualitative leap in animal protection activism.

Introduction -- Commercial uses of animals for food and entertainment -- Criminal law -- Animal experimentation -- Constitutional law -- International law

The paper discusses and criticizes views on various aspects of the situations of animals within human societies offered by authors presenting at the seminar held at the Research Centre for Public Policy and Regulatory Governance. They include legal, ethical as well as socio-psychological problems about animal welfare and the attempts to improve the conditions in which animals are treated. The author hints at the theoretical background as well as implications of some of the ideas that are advocated in the ongoing legal and ethical debates over animal welfare. The discussion aims to shed some light on how the cross-disciplinary studies and exchanges that include biologists, psychologists, sociologists as well as legal researchers may contribute to numerous controversies in the contemporary animal law scholarship.