Animal Rights

The Role of the EU Charter
2. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-565-04923-3
Verlag: epubli

Buch, Englisch, 116 Seiten, Format (B × H): 125 mm x 190 mm, Gewicht: 147 g

The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights currently does not explicitly mention animals. The Charter emerges from a rights-based tradition that places the human at its centre, setting it apart from and above non-human animals, as well as the environment, which conditions human existence.

While scholars divide on questions of human exceptionalism, the necessity of anthropocentrism in rights-based approaches and jurisprudence, and related questions, this edited volume takes the Charter at face value, asking about human-animal relations under EU law: Are fundamental values of dignity, freedom, equality, solidarity and justice for humans only, or are some or several aspects of those values already extended to non-humans? Should the EU Charter include specific and codified rights for animals, too?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herlin-Karnell, Ester

Arvidsson, Matilda

Über Autor(innen)

Arvidsson, Matilda
Matilda Arvidsson is a Senior Lecturer in Jurisprudence at the University of Gothenburg.

Herlin-Karnell, Ester
Ester Herlin-Karnell is a Professor of EU Law at the University of Gothenburg.