Legal research
Legislation, case law, and new theories that broaden what the law can recognize.
Centro de Estudios de Derecho Animal CEDA ChileChile · 2019
The law does notendwith humans.
Research, education, digital research infrastructure, and critical thought to transform our society’s legal relationship with animals.
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Beyond species
A legal science for human and nonhuman animals.
01 / The Center
The animal question calls for a new legal imagination.
Centro de Estudios de Derecho Animal CEDA Chile is the country’s first study center devoted to Animal Law. We advance its doctrinal, legislative, and jurisprudential development through a rigorous and ethical understanding of the animal question.
We coordinate research, academic activities, and collective publications that bring knowledge to specialists and to those beginning to examine the relationship among law, power, and animals.
Research infrastructure
Systems, databases, and artificial intelligence for researching Animal Law at scale.
Education
Specialized knowledge for students, professionals, and interested communities.
Publications
Collective works connecting legal analysis, literature, and interdisciplinary perspectives.
02 / Research
Ideas that expand the boundaries of law.
An open library on freedom, equality, exploitation, and interspecies justice.
01 / Foundational research
Admissibility and merits in constitutional relief
Limits of in limine review and coherence of the dispositive ruling in the Sandai case.03 / Radar CEDA
Animal Law case law and legislationRadar CEDA
A verifiable index of animal case law, bills, Chilean legislation, and comparative law, built to track the development of Animal Law through traceable documentary sources.
Open Radar CEDA Explore CEDA Animal Intelligence04 / Research infrastructure
A purpose-built infrastructure for Animal Law research at scale.
Radar CEDA, CEDA Animal Intelligence, CEDA Research Engine, and Curiosity form a connected ecosystem for gathering verifiable sources, deepening research, and transforming legal evidence into public knowledge.
Radar CEDACEDA Research EngineCEDA Animal IntelligenceCuriosity
Explore the research infrastructure 05 / Curiosity
Findings that shift the frame.
A CEDA publication on Animal Law findings recovered through legal research at scale.
Legal research at scale to find what usually remains outside the field of view.
Explore Curiosity Retrieving the latest finding…
06 / Publications
Animal Studies Dossier
Legal research, critical thought, and literary work in open access.
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2023 · 225 pages
Critical and practical studies on the exploitation of nonhuman animals
Explore the issue“The day will come when men will see the murder of an animal as they now see that of a man.Leonardo da Vinci
07 / Contact
Let us build a justice beyond our species.
Santiago, Chile
contacto.cedachile@gmail.com