Animal WARFARE & The Need for PEACE (Timestamps/Subtitles)

ABSTRACT: 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. Through the comparative lens of the international laws of war and peace, this Article argues that existing animal welfare law is best understood as a kind of warfare law that regulates violent activities within an ongoing “war on animals.” It further submits that this animal warfare law needs to be complemented and counterbalanced by an animal law of peace, consisting of a jus animalis contra bellum and peacetime animal rights.

AUTHOR & ARTICLE: Saskia Stucki, Animal Warfare Law and the Need for an Animal Law of Peace: A Comparative Reconstruction, The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 71, Issue 1, Spring 2023, Pages 189–233, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avad018

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - Animal Warfare Law
00:00:55 - Abstract
00:01:36 - Introduction
00:09:10 - I. Animal Protection, Animal Welfare Law, and Animal Rights: The Traditional Landscape - A. The Problem with Contemporary Animal Protection Law and Discourse - 1. The Normative Inadequacy of Monopartite Animal Protection (Welfare) Law
00:11:53 - 2. The Discursive Impasse of the Welfare/Rights Dualism
00:15:08 - B. The Promise of Comparison: Transplanting Triadic Complementarity
00:19:34 - II. Animal Warfare Law: An (Unlikely) Comparison Between Animal Welfare Law and International Humanitarian Law - A. Object of Regulation: The Violence of War and Animal Exploitation (the “War on Animals”)
00:28:19 - B. Historical Formation and Rationale: Taming a Preexisting Violent Institution
00:32:41 - C. Dialectical Tension Between Necessary Violence and Humane Considerations
00:39:25 - D. The Principle of Unnecessary Suffering
00:44:45 - E. The Dark Side of Humanization: The Legitimation of Violence
00:49:14 - F. Rethinking Animal Welfare Law as a Warfare Law
00:55:58 - III. Beyond Animal Warfare Law: Constructing an Animal Law of Peace - A. The Normative Vacuum in Animal-Protective Law
00:59:27 - B. The Formation of a Jus Animalis Contra Bellum - 1. The Distinction Between Jus in Exploitation and Jus ad Exploitation
01:03:54 - 2. The Transformation of Jus ad Exploitation into Jus Contra Exploitation
01:08:02 - 3. The Transition From (a Ubiquitous) War to (Areas of) Peace
01:10:12 - C. The Formation of Complementary Animal Rights - 1. Contours of Animal Rights in Peacetime
01:16:04 - 2. Complementarity of Animal Welfare Law and Animal Rights in Wartime
01:24:03 - 3. The “Humanization” of Animal Welfare Law Through Animal Rights
01:27:59 - Conclusions

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