Animal Law · Companion animals · October 19, 2026
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Recent legal and critical writing.
Essays and columns on Animal Law, environmental justice, constitutionalism, and the legal treatment of animals.
Animal law · Invertebrates · September 29, 2026
Can a Bee Be a Victim of Animal Cruelty?
Chilean beekeeping law expressly protects bee welfare, inviting a broader examination of whether general animal-protection rules also extend to invertebrates.Read entryAnimal criminal law · July 22, 2025
Criminalising Zoophilia: A Blurred Legislative Promise
The reform approved by the Chamber did not create the autonomous offence originally proposed; it reduced sexual violence against animals to an aggravating circumstance of animal cruelty.Read entryEnvironmental justice · March 27, 2024
The Urgent Need to Accelerate Marine Protected Areas in Northern Chile
Chascos Bay brings together green turtles, seagrass beds, kelp forests, and migratory routes, yet remains exposed to projects that threaten its ecological balance.Read entryConstitutional law · December 14, 2023
Animal Protection in the 2023 Constitutional Proposal?
The constitutional proposal included a duty to protect animal welfare, but did not recognise sentience or establish directly enforceable mechanisms.Read entryTechnology and intersectionality · November 14, 2023
Artificial Intelligence and Animal Rights: An Intersectional Perspective
The possible emergence of conscious artificial intelligence requires us to reconsider how moral membership is defined—and what this debate reveals about the exclusion of animals.Read entryMarine animals · April 27, 2023
Protecting Whales and Their Migrations: A Challenge Still Pending for Chile
Whale migration routes cross spaces fragmented by human activities and require a coherent network of marine protected areas.Read entryAquaculture · June 16, 2022
The Entry into Force of the United States Marine Mammal Protection Act in Chile
The MMPA conditions access to the United States market on compliance with marine-mammal protection standards by Chilean fisheries and aquaculture.Read entryStrategic litigation · October 29, 2021
Non-Human Animals Are Legal Persons
A United States federal decision admitted the Magdalena River hippopotamus community as interested persons for the purpose of obtaining evidence for Colombian proceedings.Read entryAnimal agriculture · July 23, 2021
The Calf in the Dairy Industry: Legal Protection—or the Lack of It
Dairy production relies on separating cows from calves, while Chilean regulation lacks specific standards for that relationship and its consequences.Read entryAnimal legislation · May 4, 2021
Protecting Animals or the Industry? Higher Fines in the Meat Market
Increased penalties for slaughterhouse and traceability infringements appear to protect safety and exports before the interests of animals.Read entryEthics and conservation · April 23, 2021
Let's Kill the Hippopotamuses!
The response of killing introduced animals reveals how easily environmental management turns individual lives into manageable damage.Read entryAnimals and the environment · April 2, 2021
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Mass bee deaths caused by pesticides raise questions about who can legally represent wild animals and how responsibility for collective harm is assigned.Read entryInstitutions · March 12, 2021
An Animal Prosecution Service, Comptroller, and Ombudsperson
Animal protection requires permanent institutions able to supervise, represent animals' own interests, and coordinate a currently fragmented state response.Read entryAquatic animals · January 11, 2021
Editorial: Welfare for Aquatic Animals?
The first aquatic-welfare guidelines make a historic debt visible, but also require us to ask whether welfare is compatible with confinement and exploitation.Read entryLegal theory · July 3, 2020
The Objectification of Non-Human Animals in Chilean Law
The civil classification of animals as things runs through property, procedure, family, succession, and environmental regulation, keeping animals outside the legal community.Read entryAquatic animals · March 23, 2020
Aquatic Animals: Challenges and Threats They Face in Chile
Pollution, energy generation, fishing, and aquaculture form a network of threats to aquatic individuals and ecosystems in Chile.Read entryAnimals in captivity · February 27, 2020
Is It Time to Transform Zoos?
Zoos' educational and conservation promises must be confronted with the confinement, exhibition, and loss of autonomy that define their operation.Read entryLivestock and climate · January 1, 2020