Global Animal Law from the Margins International Trade in Animals and their Bodies Law, Justice and Ecology Series

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 the early development of animal law?s reaction to issues of international trade, the book elicits the anthropocentrism and colonialism that underpin this bias. In response, the book outlines a new, intersectional, second wave of animal ethics. Incorporating marginalised viewpoints, it elevates the field beyond the dominant concern with animal welfare and rights. And, drawing on aspects of decolonial thought, earth jurisprudence, intersectionality theory and posthumanism, it offers a fundamental rethinking of the very basis of global animal law.

The book's critical, yet practical, new approach to global animal law will appeal to animal law and environmental law experts, legal theorists, and those working in the areas of animal studies and ecology.

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

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