Beyond Animal Warfare Law: Humanizing the "War on Animals" and the Need for 
Complementary Animal Rights

Stucki, Saskia

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3824924

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Beyond Animal Warfare Law: Humanizing the "War on Animals" and the Need for Complementary Animal Rights

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Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Max Planck Society;

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Stucki, S. (2021). Beyond Animal Warfare Law: Humanizing the "War on Animals" and the Need for Complementary Animal Rights. MPIL Research Paper Series, 2021-10. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3824924.

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This article puts forward a novel analogy between animal welfare law and international humanitarian law – two seemingly unrelated bodies of law that are both marked by the aporia of humanizing the inhumane. Based on a comparative analysis with the law of war, this article argues that animal welfare law is best understood as a kind of warfare law which regulates violent activities within an ongoing “war on animals,” and needs to be complemented by a jus contra bellum and peacetime animal rights.