1st Edition

Global Animal Law from the Margins International Trade in Animals and their Bodies

By Iyan Offor Copyright 2024
320 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

320 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

320 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book critically engages the emerging field of global animal law from the perspective of an intersectional ethical framework. Reconceptualising global animal law, this book argues that global animal law overrepresents views from the west as it does not sufficiently engage views from the Global South, as well as from Indigenous and other marginalised communities. Tracing this imbalance to... Read more

1. Towards a Second Wave of Animal Ethics 2. Features of Second Wave Animal Ethics 3. Regarding Animal Law from the Margins 4. Globality, Intersectionality, and Animal Law 5. Trading Animals and their Bodies 6. Animals and the Spectre of International Trade Law 7. Global Animal Law Scholarship in the Wake of EC – Seal Products 8. Radical, Decolonised Global Animal Law Scholarship, and a Network of Global Animal Law Instruments 9. Placing Animals within WTO Committee Work and Supporting Negotiations

Biography

Iyan Offor is a Lecturer at the School of Law, Birmingham City University, UK.

"This is an important work for the fields of animal law, animal studies and international trade law. Realigning the major currents of animal protection by reference to decolonial theories, Offor argues for radical and real-world transition in the world of 'global' animal law." Yoriko OtomoGlobal Research Network. 

"A welcome new direction for global animal law studies. Very strong in theory and conceptualisation, combined with deep legal analysis of international trade law and a high sensitivity for the plight of nonhuman animals." Anne Peters, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and Public International Law, Heidelberg. 

"Iyan Offor’s Global Animal Law from the Margins brings a valuable underrepresented perspective to global animal law, applying the methodologies and insights of critical animal studies and intersectionalism. It is an important and necessary contribution to the scholarship." Katie Sykes, Thompson Rivers University Faculty of Law, Canada.