Sustainability and Animal Welfare Legal and Scientific Perspectives

Part I. Legal perspectives

1. The reform of Article 9 of the Italian Constitution as an implementation of the One Health paradigm: waiting for animal subjectivity
   Francesca Rescigno
2. Animal welfare and sustainability in the One Health perspective
   Diana Cerini
3. Evolution of legal subjectivity as private law category in the new Italian Constitution
   Lucilla Gatt
4. Transformative animal law: the recognition of animals' habeas corpus in comparative constitutional law
   Giacomo Giorgini Pignatiello
5. Phasing out industrial livestock as a requirement of international climate law
   Anne Peters
6. Sustainability and novel foods: food safety as a necessary pathway to adapt food consumption to sustainability requirements
   Federico Laus
7. Animal testing and alternative methods: the principles of Directive No. 63/2010
   Maria Vittoria Ferroni
8. Animals in Latin American Constitutions: critical analysis and new perspectives
   Marita Giménez-Candela
9. Ecofeminist approaches to the protection of whales in international law
   Sara De Vido
10. Green Communities and greenways
    Francesco Tufarelli

Part II. Scientific perspectives

11. Will the A/H5N1 avian flu virus be the cause of the next pandemic?
Maria Paola Landini

12. Coherence and ethics in controlling the HPAI H5N1 panzootic
Ilaria Capua and Angela Fanelli

13. Sustainability of dairy cattle production: the need for a trade-off between environmental impacts and animal welfare
Angelo Peli, Simone Gallese and Getu Tsegu Nuguse

14. On the unsustainability of intensive animal exploitation: a scientific perspective
Francesco Gonella

Biography

Francesca Rescigno teaches Public Law and Equal Opportunities Law at the Uni-versity of Bologna. She has been involved in animal rights issues for a long time, having published a monograph on the subject in 2005 (I diritti degli animali. Da res a soggetti, Giappichelli, 2005). She has been a member of the Committee for the Welfare of Animals Used in Experimentation at the University of Bologna and col-laborates with many associations and institutions to promote equality and anti-speciesism. Together with Professor Cerini she is responsible for the PRIN PNRR 2022 project ‘Sustainability and animal welfare’, which was funded by the Euro-pean Union – Next Generation EU – mission 4, component 2, investment 1.1. She leads the team of the Bologna research unit.

Diana Cerini is Full Professor of Comparative Private Law at the School of law of Università di Milano Bicocca. She is Scientific Director of CELIS (Centre for Law, Innovation and Sustainability), lawyer of and chair of AIDA Personal Insurance WP. She is in charge of the Jean Monnet Chair for Global Animal Law 2023-2026 and director of Corso di diritto e benessere degli animali. She has authored several books and papers on animal law and sustainability. Together with Professor Rescigno she is responsible for the PRIN PNRR 2022 project ‘Sustainability and animal welfare’, which was funded by the European Union – Next Generation EU – mission 4, component 2, investment 1.1. She leads the team of the Milano Bicocca research unit.