Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500786 Law | OT | 4 | 0 |
Students should have sufficient knowledge of English (intermediate level) to be able to consult the materials indicated.
The Law, until relatively recently, has kept a reserve, if not absolute silence, attitude towards animals. For centuries, everything that had to be said about the legal status of animals and their role in social life has not changed substantially, except for the changes made in recent years to the Continental Codes and some Common Law legislation.
Since then, there have been only sporadic, but interesting, incursions into Animal Law and human-driven debates, which are always more pressing, than reflection on the integration of animals into social life and the legal system.
It is essentially a study about:
Animal Law in a global context
Animal Welfare Law in Europe and Common Law Countries
Policies for teaching animal law in various countries
Impact of the teaching of Animal Law on society
Integration of the teaching of Animal Law in the different phases of the teaching
Two concrete examples:
Teaching Animal Law in the Law Degree
Teaching Animal Law as a Professional and Scientific Master's Degree
Animals have been for law, from the traditional regulations that originate from Roman and medieval sources, things. Property that can be disposed of by the owner on the same terms as anything else. Civil coding only dealt with animals insofar as they may be the object of possession, ownership, contracts or sources of liability.
In this same period of time, the natural sciences have explained forcefully that animals are not just another thing in nature, but sentient beings with many elements in common with human beings, capable of feeling and suffering. The regulations, however, have not changed until the last years of the 20th century, when there was a growing social sensitivity.
These are the new rules that consider the protection of animals to be of interest, establishing rules that discipline human relations with them, but establishing, as a guideline, the interests of animals, giving them a more respectful and attentive treatment than the flat and uniform regulation of property in the Code, which would always have allowed the owner of a thing to dispose of its conservation and destruction, its suffering and its death.
This emerging field of law, suchas the science of animal welfare applied to legal regulation, offers future lawyers, jurists and legal operators a unique platform for training in a discipline that combines legal technique with subjects that are essential for understanding the social and cultural context in which the new relationship between animals and law is manifested.
In this sense, it is included:
1.-El estatuto jurídico de los animales en el Derecho. Visión Global comparada.
2.- El Código Civil: el estatuto de los animales como simple “cosa” en el Civil Law y en el Common Law. Responsabilidad por actos geterinarios ncon animalesy protección. Tenencia y "Duty of Care"
3.- El siglo XX: de las normas aisladas de Bienestar Animal al “Derecho del Bienestar Animal” en la UE y en el ámbito Global.
A.- Animales de Compañía, Animales de Producción, Animales de Entretenimiento, Animales de experimentación, Animales en el Deporte. Caza
B.- Incorporación a la Unión Europea y proceso paralelo de incorporación parcial (todavía incompleta) a las políticas del Consejo de Europa. La incorporación a otras instituciones internacionales. OIE. EFSA. CITES
C.- El derecho español autónomo del europeo en la segunda mitad de la década de los noventa: a) el crecimiento exponencial del derecho autonómico, a partir de la Ley de Cataluña de 1995; y b) principios creados por la práctica administrativa y judicial. Competencia municipal en la protección animal
4.- El maltrato Animal y el deber del Estado de defensa de los vulnerables
A.- Animales en cautividad. Zoos, Acuarios. Santuarios y Habeas Corpus
B.- Peces, Acuicultura. Aves. Invertebrados
C.- Fauna Urbana. Animales silvestres.
D.- Los animales y la Cultura. Animales enla moda. Animales en las Fuerzas Armadas y en los conflictos bélicos
E.- Los movimientos de defensa y protección animal. Animal Advocacy
D. Terapias asistidas con animales. Animales en las catástrofes naturales. Epidemias y pandemias
SYLLABUS
PROGRAMA ORIENTATIVO GENERAL
II. REGULACIÓN EN EL MARCO DE LA UE y OIE:
1.5 . Fauna Silvestre y Fauna urbana. Caza. Animales en Cautividad. Santuarios y Habeas Corpus
III. NO REGULADO POR LA UE:
The lecturer's interventions will be in the form of an informative exhibition, from which individual and group participation will be encouraged. As this is a face-to-face course, at least 80% of the classes are compulsory. Very important: this course cannot be taken if the student is unable to attend class.
All this will be supported by the following didactic resources:
- Dossier of the summaries of the presentations in class, with the legislation to be consulted.
- Power point slides to illustrate the exhibitions.
- Informative and didactic videos.
- Presentation of practical cases.
Updated reference material to solve doubts or obtain additional information.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Masterclasses | 22.5 | 0.9 | 6, 7, 2 |
Practical activities | 22.5 | 0.9 | 4, 3, 5, 8 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Study | 100 | 4 | 4, 6, 3, 5, 7, 8, 2 |
The evaluation system combines the continuous evaluation of the practices and the resolution of a final exam.
1.1 Ongoing evaluation of the practices.
It requires compulsory attendance in the classes, the delivery of the 2 proposed practices and the resolution of the proposed evaluable activities in the classroom. Each of the written practices counts for 25% of the grade.
The specific date or week of the evaluable activities will be published on the Virtual Campus before the start of the teaching, without prejudice to the fact that, exceptionally and for reasons of force majeure, these may be modified with sufficient notice and in advance.
1.2 Final examination
It will consist of a single, multiple-choice test of the entire content of the course, with a value of up to 50% of the final grade.
1.3 Re-evaluation.
Students who have participated in the continuous assessment and fail the final exam may reevaluate provided they have obtained a minimum score of 3 points at the final exam.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Continuous assessment of practices | 50 | 3 | 0.12 | 4, 6, 3, 5, 8 |
Theoretical Classes | 50 | 2 | 0.08 | 1, 4, 6, 3, 5, 7, 8, 2 |
BASICA
M. GIMÉNEZ-CANDELA, Transición Animal en España (Tirant lo Blanch. Valencia 2019)
M. GIMÉNEZ-CANDELA Y R. CERSOSIMO, La Enseñanza del Derecho Animal (Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia 2020)
Ed. D. FAVRE y T. GIMÉNEZ-CANDELA, Animales y Derecho. Animals and the Law (Ed. Tirant lo Blanch, 2014)
RECOMENDADA
Para cada módulo, se recomienda a los alumnos una lista de lecturas, que les ayudarán a una mejor comprensión de todo el Programa.
Se recomienda consultar la revista del ICALP (International Center for Animal Law and Policy), dA.Derecho Animal (Forum of Animal Law Studies) que es una revista OJS, indexada, donde se encuentran artículos, Comentarios de sentencia, legislación comentada y actualizaciónh del régimen jurídico de los animales en el ámbito tanto nacional como global https://revistes.uab.cat/da/index
La web del ICALP (International Center for Animal Law and Policy), www.derechoanimal.info y la revista dA. Derecho Animal (Forum of Animal Law Studies http://revistes.uab.cat/da) será un instrumento básico de lecturas, consulta de materiales, legislación, jurisprudencia y puesta al día. Por lo que se recomienda a los Alumnos consultarla a diario.