Saskia Stucki

Dr. iur., Senior Research Fellow

stucki@mpil.de
Tel. +49 (6221) 482-350

Main Fields of Research:

Animal law, animal rights, fundamental rights for animals, animal legal personhood; theories of rights; human rights philosophy and law; climate and environmental law; climate mainstreaming, greenstreaming

Academic Career:

March/April 2022: Visiting scholar at Harvard Law School Animal Law and Policy Program (book project: One Rights - Human and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene)

since 2022: Gender Equality Officer at the MPIL (since 2021: vice-gender equality officer)

since 2020: Habilitiation in the field of climate and environmental law

• Habilitation project: Transformative Greenstreaming - Greening Non-Environmental Law

Other projects:

• World Lawyers' Pledge on Climate Action
• Climate Mainstreaming
• Oxford Handbook of Global Animal Law
• Book project "One Rights: Human and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene"

2018-2020: Swiss National Science Foundation Advanced Postdoc.Mobility grant / visiting researcher at Harvard Law School and Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.

• Postdoc research project: Trilogy on a Legal Theory of Animal Rights

since 2016: Senior Research Fellow at the MPIL

2015: University of Basel, Ph.D. (summa cum laude)

Dissertation: Fundamental Rights for Animals (Grundrechte für Tiere: Eine Kritik des geltenden Tierschutzrechts und rechtstheoretische Grundlegung von Tierrechten im Rahmen einer Neupositionierung des Tieres als Rechtssubjekt), Fundamenta Juridica 69, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2016

Awards:

• SVRSP Award 2017 of the Swiss Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
• Felix Wankel Animal Welfare Research Junior Award 2017 of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
• Professor Walther Hug Award 2017
• Faculty Award 2016 of the University of Basel Law School

Reviews:

• Tierstudien 11/2017, 161ff (Nico Müller)
• Natur und Recht 39 (2017), 762 (Dr. Tobias Schneider)
• RFL Rundschau für Fleischhygiene und Lebensmittelüberwachung 2/2017, 70 (Dr. Andrea Volke-Middendorf)
• RphZ - Rechtsphilosophie: Zeitschrift für Grundlagen des Rechts 4/2017, 431ff (Anje Schulz)

2014: Summer fellowship at Wesleyan University (USA); Animals & Society Institute and Wesleyan Animal Studies Human-Animal Studies Fellowship

2012-2016: Coordinator of the doctoral programme "Law and Animals" at the Law School of the University of Basel

2011-2012: Research assistant at the chair for public and international law of Prof. Dr. Anne Peters, University of Basel

2011-2015: Doctoral studies, University of Basel

2010-2011: Student assistant at the chair for public and international law of Prof. Dr. Anne Peters, University of Basel

2006-2011: Law studies, University of Basel

Recent Publications

• Oxford Handbook of Global Animal Law. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2022, forthcoming. (editor with Anne Peters, Kristen Stilt).
  
• Animal Warfare Law and the Need for an Animal Law of Peace: A Comparative Reconstruction. In: American Journal of Comparative Law 71 (2023), forthcoming.
  
• World Lawyers' Pledge on Climate Action. In: Environmental Policy and Law 51, 371-376 (2021). doi: 10.3233/EPL-219015 (with Guillaume Futhazar, Tom Sparks, Bruce Ackerman, Fatou Bensouda, Lalit Bhasin, David R. Boyd, Chunghwan Choi, Martyn Day, Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor Poisot, Idayat Hassan, Donald W. Kaniaru, Helen Keller, Viviana Krsticevic, Antonio Oposa Jr., Anne Peters, Paulo Sérgio Pinto de Albuquerque, Flavia Piovesan, Caleb Pollard, Christina Voigt). https://content.iospress.com/download/en...
  
• Menschenrechte für Tiere: Zur Verrechtlichung einer Idee, deren Zeit gekommen ist. In: Welche Rechte braucht die Natur? Wege aus dem Artensterben, Frank Adloff, Tanja Busse (eds.). Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2021, 147-158.
  
• Judicial Courage in the Face of Climate Crisis and State Inaction: In Defence of Green Civil Disobedience. In: Public Jurist (subsidiary magazine of the Hong Kong Journal of Law and Public Affairs) December 2020, 41-46 (2020). Public Jurist Dec 2020
  

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Towards a Theory of Legal Animal Rights: Simple and Fundamental Rights. In: Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 40, 533-560 (2020). doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqaa007. https://academic.oup.com/ojls/article/do... English version (PDF, 238.5 KB) Chinese translation (PDF, 2135.8 KB)
Translated into: Chinese


Editorial: Animal Rights - Interconnections with Human Rights and the Environment. In: Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 11, 149-155 (2020). doi: https://doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2020.02.00 (with Tom Sparks, Visa Kurki). https://www.elgaronline.com/view/journal...


Animal Rights. In: Encyclopedia for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Sellers M., Kirste S. (eds.). Springer, Dordrecht 2020 (with Visa Kurki). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6730-... stucki-kurki2020_referenceworkentry_animalrights-v1.pdf (PDF, 169.9 KB)


Menschenrechte für Tiere: Von der theoretischen Begründung zur praktischen Verrechtlichung. In: Die Idee subjektiver Rechte, Eric Hilgendorf, Benno Zabel (eds.). De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2021, 319-335. https://www.degruyter.com/view/book/9783...


Fundamental Rights for Animals (Grundrechte für Tiere: Eine Kritik des geltenden Tierschutzrechts und rechtstheoretische Grundlegung von Tierrechten im Rahmen einer Neupositionierung des Tieres als Rechtssubjekt). Fundamenta Juridica 69. Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2016, 445 p., Diss. Basel, 2015 eBook


(Certified) Humane Violence? Animal Production, the Ambivalence of Humanizing the Inhumane, and What International Humanitarian Law Has to Do with It. In: Studies in Global Animal Law, Anne Peters (ed.). Springer, Heidelberg 2020, 121-131. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10...


(Certified) Humane Violence? Animal Welfare Labels, the Ambivalence of Humanizing the Inhumane, and What International Humanitarian Law Has to Do with It. In: AJIL Unbound 111, 277-281 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1017/aju.2017.65... Stucki_certified_humane_violence1.pdf (PDF, 120.7 KB)


Menschenrechte für Tiere: Von der Theorie zur Praxis. In: Tierärztliche Umschau 12/2017, 484-488 (2017).


Kritische Anmerkungen zur (weiterhin) aktuellen Küken-Rechtsprechung. In: Tierärztliche Umschau 11/2017, 440-444 (2017).


Die Nutzung kommt vor dem Schutz - und andere Lehren aus der neuen Küken-Rechtsprechung. In: Rechtswissenschaft 7, 521-541 (2016). https://doi.org/10.5771/1868-8098-2016-3...


Global Animal Law. In: Yearbook of the Max Planck Society 2016/2017 (2017) (with Anne Peters). https://www.mpg.de/10892322/mpil_jb_2017...


Animal Law: Reform or Revolution?. Schulthess, Zürich, 2015, 152 p. (editor with Anne Peters, Livia Boscardin). -


Tierversuchsrichtlinie 2010/63/EU: Rechtsgutachten zu ihrer Umsetzung in Deutschland. Schulthess, Zürich, 2014, 200 p. (with Anne Peters) -


Die "tierliche Person" als Tertium datur: Eine Extrapolation aus aktuellen tierschutzrechtlichen Subjektivierungsansätzen und kritische Reflexion aus feministischer Perspektive. In: Würde der Kreatur: Ethische und rechtliche Beiträge zu einem umstrittenen Konzept, Christoph Ammann, Birgit Christensen, Lorenz Engi, Margot Michel (eds.). Schulthess, Zürich 2015, 287-326. Stucki_Die_tierliche_Person_als_Tertium_datur1.pdf (PDF, 3975.0 KB)


Rechtswissenschaft: Vom Recht über Tiere zu den Legal Animal Studies. In: Disziplinierte Tiere? Perspektiven der Human-Animal Studies für die wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen, Reingard Spannring, Karin Schachinger, Gabriela Kompatscher, Alejandro Boucabeille (eds.). Transcript, Bielefeld 2015, 229-255 (with Margot Michel). Michel_Stucki_Legal_Animal_Studies1.pdf (PDF, 2999.7 KB)


Rechtstheoretische Reflexionen zur Begründung eines tierlichen Rechtssubjekts. In: Animal Law - Tier und Recht: Developments and Perspectives in the 21st Century - Entwicklungen und Perspektiven im 21. Jahrhundert, Margot Michel, Daniela Kühne, Julia Hänni (eds.). Dike/BWV, Zürich/Berlin 2012, 143-172. Stucki_Offprint1.pdf (PDF, 437.9 KB)

Blogposts

• An Urgent Call for Climate Mainstreaming: World Lawyers’ Pledge on Climate Action. Völkerrechtsblog, 07. September 2021 (zusammen mit Saskia Stucki, Guillaume Futhazar, Erik Tuchtfeld, Hannah Foehr). Völkerrechtsblog
  
• World Lawyers’ Pledge on Climate Action: An Urgent Call for Climate Mainstreaming. Verfassungsblog, 07. September 2021 (zusammen mit Saskia Stucki, Guillaume Futhazar, Erik Tuchtfeld, Hannah Foehr). Verfassungsblog
  
• In Defence of Green Civil Disobedience: Judicial Courage in the Face of Climate Crisis and State Inaction. Verfassungsblog, 30 October 2020. https://verfassungsblog.de/in-defence-of...
  
• The Elephant in the (Court)Room: Interdependence of Human and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene. EJIL: Talk!, 09 June 2020 (with Tom Sparks). https://www.ejiltalk.org/the-elephant-in...
  
• Of Chicks and Men: Anmerkungen zum BVerwG-Urteil über die Tötung männlicher Küken. Verfassungsblog, 17 June 2019 (with Christoph Winter). https://verfassungsblog.de/of-chicks-and...
  

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El rol del ‘habeas corpus’ en la evolución de los derechos de los animales. Ámbito Jurídico, 12 February 2018 (with Juan C Herrera). https://www.ambitojuridico.com/noticias/...


Habea(r)s Corpus: Some Thoughts on the Role of Habeas Corpus in the Evolution of Animal Rights. International Journal of Constitutional Law Blog, 04 November 2017 (with Juan C Herrera). http://www.iconnectblog.com/2017/11/habe...


Toward Hominid and Other Humanoid Rights: Are We Witnessing a Legal Revolution?. Verfassungsblog, 30 December 2016. http://verfassungsblog.de/toward-hominid...


Die Nutzung kommt vor dem Schutz - Kritische Anmerkungen zur neuen "Küken-Rechtsprechung" (Part II). JuWissBlog, 26 July 2016. http://www.juwiss.de/62-2016/...


Die Nutzung kommt vor dem Schutz - Kritische Anmerkungen zur neuen "Küken-Rechtsprechung" (Part I). JuWissBlog, 26 July 2016. http://www.juwiss.de/61-2016/...


Sind die Menschenrechte in Zukunft noch Menschen-Rechte?. Völkerrechtsblog, 13 May 2014. http://voelkerrechtsblog.org/sind-die-me...


The Animal Turn - What Is It and Why Now. Verfassungsblog, 14 April 2014 (with Anne Peters). http://verfassungsblog.de/the-animal-tur...

Working Papers

• Beyond Animal Warfare Law: Humanizing the "War on Animals" and the Need for Complementary Animal Rights. MPIL Research Paper Series No. 2021-10, 2021. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?... stucki_beyond-animal-warfare-law-v1.pdf (PDF, 1349.6 KB)
  

Further Publications

• Special Issue: Animal Rights - Interconnections with Human Rights and the Environment. In: Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 11/2, 149-329 (2020) (with Tom Sparks, Visa Kurki). https://www.elgaronline.com/view/journal...
  

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