Autor/-in: Saskia Stucki

Dr. Saskia Stucki is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, where she is working on her Habilitation project at the intersection of environmental and animal law. From 2018 to 2022, she was a recurrent visiting scholar at the Harvard Animal Law & Policy Program, where she worked on her postdoctoral research project Trilogy on a Legal Theory of Animal Rights (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation). From 2012 to 2016, she was the academic coordinator of the doctoral programme 'Law and Animals' at the University of Basel Law School. She studied law at the University of Basel, where she also received her PhD in 2015. Saskia Stucki is one of the leading experts on the legal theory of animal rights. She is the author of the award-winning book Grundrechte für Tiere (Nomos 2016), and has authored numerous journal articles on the topic of animal law and rights, notably: Towards a Theory of Legal Animal Rights: Simple and Fundamental Rights (Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2020) and Animal Warfare Law and the Need for an Animal Law of Peace: A Comparative Reconstruction (American Journal of Comparative Law, forthcoming 2023). She is the co-editor (with Anne Peters and Kristen Stilt) of the Oxford Handbook of Global Animal Law (forthcoming 2023).