Books

The book “Animal Transition in Spain” (Tirant lo Blanch 2019), questions the treatment of animals as “things” by the Law, when society already considers them sentient beings, as proved by Animal Welfare Science.

“Global entanglements and challenges abound in animal law, as multinationals rise in number and power, production facilities move to other countries, and animals are shipped for use and slaughter across borders by the millions. In this environment, it has become increasingly difficult for states to…

This paper presents the main lines of the CITES convention and analyses in detail the serious problem that this task falls within the competence of the Ministry responsible for Trade and not the one in charge of environmental matters, an issue that obstructs its effective implementation of CITES. …

For a mouse, a cat is a lion. Spanish proverb The Anthology History of the Cat is the second publication of Helena Escoda Casas, student of the first promotion of the Postgraduate degree of Animal Law (2011) and Anthrozoology (2015), both taught at UAB. The research has consisted in documenting the…

What do National Socialism and animal law have in common? Indeed, when talking about animal welfare and species conservation, one cannot overlook the fact that the laws emanated in the Third Reich were amongst the first to regulate these matters in a structured and unified manner. For obvious reasons,…

Sexual abuse of animals is a cruel and atrocious form of mistreatment, not only by the animals physical damage, but also because they imply an absolute disregard towards the dignity of the animal that suffers them.

In the Western legal tradition, Ethics and Law are considered as different fields. In fact, Law is a system of rules, usually made by a legislature, to regulate the behaviours of the member of a society, recognized as binding and enforced by the public authority. Conversely, Ethics deals with the…

Although the debate involves animals, there are conflicting positions between advocates interested in animal defence and those interested in environmental issues. The key issues where their opinions diverge pertain to sport hunting, zoos, aquaria, fur and industrial animal agriculture. However, the…

There has always existed a fundamentally ethical debate in relation to shows with bulls and other animals. However, this controversy gained force in our society after the Catalan Parliament banned bullfighting in 2010. This book is precisely a starting point to this current debate, as the author…

PAN Y TOROS. A brief history of Spanish anti-bullfighting Thinking, edited by Plaza and Valdés and written by PhD Juan Ignacio Codina Segovia, the book brings together the main conclusions drawn from the doctoral thesis Anti-Bullfighting Thinking in Spain, from the Enlightenment of the 18th century…