Saskia Stucki

@Saskia_Stucki

About/Bio

Dr. Saskia Stucki is a senior lecturer and researcher at the Zürich University of Applied Sciences and University of Zürich. Previously, she was senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School. She studied law at the University of Basel, where she also received her PhD with a multi-award-winning dissertation on fundamental animal rights. Her research interests include animal law and rights, theories of rights and human rights, environmental and climate law, One Health and food governance.

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The Elephant in the (Court)Room: Interdependence of Human and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene

On 21 May 2020, the Islamabad High Court issued a remarkable judgment in the case of Kaavan the elephant (among other “inmates” [8] of the Marghazar Zoo), affirming “without any hesitation” that “animals have legal rights” [59]. Chief Justice Athar Minallah held that the “pain and suffering of Kaavan must come to an end”, and ordered his…

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