Studies in Global Animal Law

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.