This volume explores the intersection of animal protection and economic law within the European Union, offering a bold new framework for safeguarding sentient beings. Despite decades of EU legislation and constitutional recognition of animal sentience, industrial farming, wildlife trade, and animal-based research continue to thrive under economic pressures. Through contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, the book reveals how economic lawspanning corporate, trade, competition, procurement, and consumer lawcan be reimagined to prioritize animal welfare.

Reveals how EU market and corporate rules systematically sideline animal welfare Recasts economic law as a proactive lever for advancing animal protection Enriches the theory and practice of animal law and policy with new regulatory lenses

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Aude-Solveig Epstein is Provost at Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi and Associate Professor of Law at Paris Nanterre University.

Alice Di Concetto is the Chief Legal Advisor at The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy. She is additionally a lecturer in animal ethics at Sciences Po (Paris, France).

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This book brilliantly shows how the harm done to animals is not a mere 'externality' to the working of markets, but forms part of the legal regimes on trade, competition, consumer protection, procurement, and finances. Making concern for animal flourishing an objective of those legal regimes is a key contribution to the paradigm shift towards a sustainable economic law. Anne Peters, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Heidelberg, Germany Animals in EU Economic Law looks beyond standard animal law paradigms to offer a pathbreaking exploration of how markets could be reconceived and restructured to protect the interests and dignity of animals. This novel and timely contribution should be read by all scholars and practitioners concerned with the well-being of nonhuman animals. Douglas Kysar, Joseph M. Field '55 Professor of Law, Faculty Director, Yale Law School, USA This volume explores the intersection of animal protection and economic law within the European Union, offering a bold new framework for safeguarding sentient beings. Despite decades of EU legislation and constitutional recognition of animal sentience, industrial farming, wildlife trade, and animal-based research continue to thrive under economic pressures. Through contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, the book reveals how economic lawspanning corporate, trade, competition, procurement, and consumer lawcan be reimagined to prioritize animal welfare. Aude-Solveig Epstein is Provost at Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi and Associate Professor of Law at Paris Nanterre University. is the Chief Legal Advisor at The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy. She is additionally a lecturer in animal ethics at Sciences Po (Paris, France).

Inhalt

Introduction.- PART I Animals in Economic Law.- Animals in Economic Law: A Research Agenda.- PART II Animals as Economic Input.- The Common Agricultural Policy and Animals: Friends or Foes?.- Protecting Marine Life: Legal Gaps and Policy Contradictions in EU Fishing Regulations.- Cruelty Under Contract: A Case Study in French Law.- Corporate Social Responsibility and Animal Protection.- PART III Animals as Consumption Goods.- What Can Competition Law Do for Animals? Recent Developments and Future Directions Under the French Competition Authority.- Animal Protection in Public Procurement Rules.- The Protection of Endangered Species in EU and International Trade Law.- Meat Reduction as an Animal Protection Policy Goal: Exploring the Economic, Health, and Climate Nexus in EU Law.