international law; animal law; extraterritorial jurisdiction
Blattner Charlotte (2019), Rethinking the 3Rs: From Whitewashing to Rights, in Herrmann Kathrin, Jayne Kimberley (ed.), Brill, Leiden, 168-193.
Blattner Charlotte (2018), Extraterritoriale Jurisdiktion und Tierarbeit: Perspektiven einer globalisierten Ethik, in Reder Michael, Filipović Alexander, Wallacher Johannes, Finkelde Dominik (ed.), Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg, 305-338.
Blattner Charlotte (2018), Tackling Concentrated Animal Agriculture in the Middle East through Standards of Investment, Export Credits, and Trade, in
Middle East Law and Governance, 10(2), 141-159.
BlattnerCharlotte (2017), Can Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Help Overcome Regulatory Gaps of Animal Law? Insights from Trophy Hunting, in
American Journal of International Law Unbound, 111, 419-424.
Blattner Charlotte (2017), The Human Animal Bond: 3R for Farmed Animals, in Blanco Chiara & Deering Bel (ed.), Interdisciplinary Press, Oxford, 269-291.
Blattner Charlotte (2017), The Potential and Potential Limits of International Law in Regulating Animal Matters, in
Mid-Atlantic Journal on Law and Public Policy, 3, 10-55.
VanessaGerritsen, RüttimannAndreas, BlattnerCharlotte (2017),
Zulässigkeit von Beschränkungen des Handels mit tierquälerisch hergestellten Pelzprodukten, Schulthess, Zürich.
RüttimannAndreas, GerritsenVanessa, Blattner Charlotte (2017), Zulassigkeit von Beschrankungen des Handels mit tierqualerisch hergestellten Pelzprodukten, in
Tierethik, 15(2), 56-85.
Blattner Charlotte (2016), An Assessment of Recent Trade Law Developments from an Animal Law Perspective: Trade Law as the Sheep in the Wolf’s Clothing?, in
Animal Law Review , 22(2), 277-310.
This research project is a dissertation at the intersection of international law and animal law. The thesis is supervised by Prof. Anne Peters, University of Basel, and co-supervised by Prof. Christine Kaufmann, University of Zurich, and, as a third member of the phD committee, by an specialist in animal law. The thesis is embedded in the doctoral program “Law and Animals - Ethics at Crossroads” of the Law Faculty of the University of Basel. The program does not provide funding but encourages applications for scholarships.In light of the corporate multinational activity, corporate relocations, and the dispersion of production steps in the animal industry (agriculture, food, clothing, medical research, etc.) over various states’ territories, it is increasingly unclear which state is competent to regulate which production steps involving animal welfare. As the industry is remarkably mobile, states are sensitive to threats of corporate relocations. Moral and ethical convictions of one state’s population (for example the European public’s hostility to seal slaughter) might lead some states or regulatory entities (such as the European Union) to adopt stricter legal standards of animal welfare with extraterritorial effects. It is therefore important to study the limits which international law places on the nation states’ extraterritorial jurisdiction. Although states exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction in many fields of law (notably competition law, banking law, and criminal law), it is largely unknown to what extent this is happening with regard to animal welfare, and the international legal principles governing this field have never been studied.The thesis aims to provide answers to the following central research questions:1)What are the legal options under international law for a state to apply national animal welfare standards to animals situated in foreign countries?2)What is the specific content of “animal welfare standards” which might be imposed in an extraterritorial way?The questions are approached by the classic (international) legal, and thus hermeneutic methods. I will identify the relevant customary and conventional rules, and notably examine to what extent the principles developed in other fields of law are transferrable to animal regulation. The pertinent international norms are interpreted according to the acknowledged principles of interpretation as endorsed in articles 31 and 32 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. The method is doctrinal, and includes teleologic, historical, and systematic considerations.