The Swiss Primate Case: How Courts Have Paved the Way for the First Direct Democratic Vote on Animal Rights

IF 2.6 1区 社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Transnational Environmental Law Pub Date : 2021-08-17 DOI:10.1017/S2047102521000170
C. Blattner, Raffael N. Fasel
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Abstract A citizens’ initiative was launched in 2016 in the Swiss canton of Basel-Stadt, demanding that the rights catalogue in the Cantonal Constitution be complemented by a fundamental right to life and a right to bodily and mental integrity for non-human primates. This initiative became the subject of a three-year legal dispute that ended with a decision of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court in September 2020, ruling that the initiative is legally valid and must be put to the people for a vote. This case note discusses the key developments in the dispute, including the groundbreaking decision by the Constitutional Court of Basel-Stadt, which held that cantons are free to ‘expand the circle of rights holders beyond the anthropological barrier’. The authors, who were involved in the drafting of the initiative and acted as legal advisers in the judicial proceedings, offer first-hand insights into legal strategies and shed light on the importance of the case in the context of the ongoing efforts to secure rights for primates around the world.
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瑞士灵长类动物案例:法院如何为动物权利的第一次直接民主投票铺平道路
2016年,瑞士巴塞尔城市州(Basel-Stadt)发起了一项公民倡议,要求在州宪法中的权利目录中加入基本的生命权和非人类灵长类动物的身心完整权。这一倡议成为了为期三年的法律纠纷的主题,最终瑞士联邦最高法院于2020年9月作出裁决,裁定该倡议具有法律效力,必须由人民投票表决。本案例说明讨论了争议中的关键发展,包括巴塞尔城市宪法法院的开创性决定,该决定认为各州可以自由地“扩大超越人类学障碍的权利持有人圈子”。作者参与了该倡议的起草,并在司法程序中担任法律顾问,提供了有关法律策略的第一手见解,并阐明了该案件在全球范围内持续努力保护灵长类动物权利的背景下的重要性。
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