Il diritto animale globale come categoria giuridica emergente

Global animal law can be defined as the sum of legal rules and principles governing the interactions between humans and animals, on a domestic, local, regional, and international level. Global animal law reacts to the mismatch between almost exclusively national animal-related legislation on the one hand, and the global dimension of the animal issue on the other hand. In fact, the merely national regulation of animal health and welfare within the states’ boundaries insufficiently faces the challenges of globalisation. For instance, animal use creates global problems ranging from climate and soil degradation over antimicrobial resistance to food insecurity. This mismatch often gives rise to an animal health and welfare gap. From a practical point of view, this requires a global law response, recently supported by the raising ideals of one health and one welfare. At first sight, one health and one welfare are collaborative, multi-sectorial, and trans-disciplinary approaches (working at local and global level) to achieve optimal health and well-being outcomes recognizing the interconnections between people, animals, plants and their shared environment. More deeply, they can show the entropy of normative systems, by promoting the integration between natural environments and human (and non human) social systems from a systemic perspective, also through the contribution of scientific thinking to the development of theoretical, philosophical and legal debate. From a critical perspective, the emerging concept of global animal law may give new inputs to the reflection on current and future (a)spatiality of law and rights, by offering a special point of view on universality of (not only human) rights, globalisation of law and rights, planetary circulation of legal systems, and hybridisation of legal traditions on a planetary scale.