Dr. Saskia Stucki
Dr. Saskia Stucki
ZHAW
School of Management and Law
Center for Animal Rights and the Environment (CARE)
Gertrudstrasse 15
8401 Winterthur
Work at ZHAW
Position
- Director, Center for Animal Rights and the Environment (CARE)
- Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Public Law
Focus
- Animal law, animal welfare law, animal rights, animal ethics
- Climate and environmental law, decarbonization, sustainability
- Theories of personhood, rights, and human rights
- One Health, One Health Governance
- Food system transformation, transformative food governance
Teaching
- Constitutional law
- Administrative law
- Animal law
Experience
- Founder and Director of the Center for Animal Rights and the Environment (CARE)
ZHAW School of Management and Law
07 / 2025 - today - Senior Lecturer and Researcher
ZHAW School of Management and Law
10 / 2024 - today - Postdoctoral researcher
University of Zurich
10 / 2024 - today - Senior Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
04 / 2016 - 09 / 2024 - Visiting researcher
Harvard Law School, Animal Law & Policy Program
03 / 2022 - 04 / 2022 - Advanced Postdoc.Mobility scholarship
Swiss National Science Foundation
03 / 2018 - 03 / 2020 - Visiting researcher
Harvard Law School, Animal Law & Policy Program
2018 - 2019 - Coordinator of the doctoral programme "Law and Animals"
University of Basel
2012 - 2016 - Human-animal studies fellowship
Wesleyan University
05 / 2014 - 07 / 2014 - Research assistant at the chair for public and international law (Prof Anne Peters)
University of Basel
2010 - 2012
Education and Continuing education
Education
- PhD / Law
University of Basel
2011 - 2015 - MLaw, BLaw
University of Basel
2006 - 2011
Network
Membership of networks
- German Society of International Law
- Swiss Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
- Minding Animals Germany
ORCID digital identifier
Awards
- Prof. Walther Hug award
Professor Walther Hug Foundation
11 / 2017 - SVRSP-Award
Swiss Assocation for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
11 / 2017 - Felix Wankel Animal Welfare Junior Research Award
University of Munich
02 / 2017 - Faculty award for dissertation
University of Basel Law School
11 / 2016
Social media
Media presence
- "Ohne eine rechtliche und politische Governance gibt es keine Transformation", Interview with Tierrechte Magazin 1/2025
- „Klimakiller Fleisch?“, Interview with RadioX, 17 July 2025
- «Trans-Farmation»: Mehr Vielfalt vom Acker bis zum Teller, SRF Trend, 7 March 2025
- «Fleisch müsste mehr als doppelt so teuer sein», Interview, 20 Minuten, 20 February 2025
- Can We Stop Paying the Polluters? A Report on the Defund Meat Conference, Vegconomist, 23 January 2025
- Gehört der Klimaschutz ins alltägliche Recht?, SRF Echo der Zeit, 3 April 2024
- Art. 20a und der Tierschutz – leere Hülle oder Meilenstein?, SWR, 21 September 2023
- Die Rechte von Menschen und Tieren sind zutiefst miteinander verflochten, RiffReporter, 28 February 2023
- Unsere Beziehung zu Tieren: Freund oder Eigentum?, Das Magazin, 3 February 2023
- Können Robben vor Gericht ziehen?, 42 – Die Antwort auf fast alles, Arte, 29 January 2023
- Sollten Tiere Grundrechte haben wie Menschen?, Deutschlandfunk Streitkultur, 27 August 2022
- Welche Rechte haben Tiere?, Ach, Mensch! Podcast, 13 July 2022
- The Animal Law of Peace, Interview, Knowing Animals Podcast, 11 July 2022
- Happys Recht auf Freiheit, Spiegel, 7 Mai 2021
- Animal Warfare Law, Animal Turn Podcast, 6 Juni 2020
- Rechte der Tiere, 3SAT Scobel, 4 April 2019
- Tierrechte würden die Nutzung von Tieren stark einschränken, SRF Echo der Zeit, 6 August 2018
Publications
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Deckha, Maneesha; Michel, Margot; Azilagbetor, David; Blattner, Charlotte; Cajiga Morales, Rosa Maria; Davies, Gail; Elger, Bernice; Faizee, Sara; Fox, Marie; Gerritsen, Vanessa; Heuss, Adrian; Kämpfen, Laura; Louis-Maerten, Edwin; Lüthi, Nicole; Milford, Aoife; Müller, Nico Dario; Persson, Kirsten; Ritskes-Hoitinga, Merel; Rothen-Rutishauser, Barbara; Rüttimann, Andreas; Stoykova, Katerina; Stucki, Saskia; Zemanova, Miriam A.,
2025.
Alternatives to Laboratory Animals.
53(2), pp. 106-118.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/02611929251317434
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Stucki, Saskia,
2025.
Emerging animal rights and their anthropo-, zoo- and ecocentric justifications.
EJIL:Talk!.
Available from: https://www.ejiltalk.org/emerging-animal-rights-and-their-anthropo-zoo-and-ecocentric-justifications/
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Stucki, Saskia; Nollkaemper, André; Romano, Cesare P.R.; Peters, Anne,
2025.
The Heidelberg Declaration on Transforming Global Meat Governance.
Verfassungsblog.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.59704/4c6df78edc738ee8
Publications before appointment at the ZHAW
- SAPEA, Evidence Review Report “One Health governance in the European Union”, Berlin: SAPEA (2024)
- Saskia Stucki, One Rights: Human and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene (Springer 2023)
- Saskia Stucki, Animal Warfare Law and the Need for an Animal Law of Peace: A Comparative Reconstruction, 71 American Journal of Comparative Law 189-233 (2023)
- Saskia Stucki, Getting to the Meat of the Matter, Max Planck Research 1/2023, p 14-17
- Saskia Stucki & Visa Kurki, Animal Rights, in: Mortimer Sellers & Stephan Kirste (eds.), Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, 98-103 (Springer 2023)
- Saskia Stucki, Die Fleischfrage im aktuellen Klima: Zwischen Politisierung und Tabuisierung, Max Planck Society, 20 January 2023
- Saskia Stucki, Klimaschutz geht durch den Magen: Die Schweizer Massentierhaltungsinitiative und ihre klimapolitische Bedeutung, Verfassungsblog, 13 September 2022
- Saskia Stucki, Guillaume Futhazar, Tom Sparks, Bruce Ackerman, Fatou Bensouda, Lalit Bhasin, David R. Boyd, Chunghwan Choi, Martyn Day, Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor Poisot, Idayat Hassan, Donald W. Kaniaru, Helen Keller, Viviana Krsticevic, Antonio Oposa Jr, Anne Peters, Paulo Sérgio Pinto de Albuquerque, Flavia Piovesan, Caleb Pollard & Christina Voigt, World Lawyers' Pledge on Climate Action, 51 Environmental Policy and Law 371-376 (2021)
- Saskia Stucki, Towards a Theory of Legal Animal Rights: Simple and Fundamental Rights, 40 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 533-560 (2020)
- Tom Sparks, Visa Kurki & Saskia Stucki, Editorial: Animal Rights – Interconnections with Human Rights and the Environment, 11 Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 149-155 (2020)
- Saskia Stucki, In Defence of Green Civil Disobedience: Judicial Courage in the Face of Climate Crisis and State Inaction, Verfassungsblog, 30 October 2020
- Saskia Stucki & Tom Sparks, The Elephant in the (Court)Room: Interdependence of Human and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene, EJIL: Talk! 9 June 2020
- Saskia Stucki, (Certified) Humane Violence? Animal Production, the Ambivalence of Humanizing the Inhumane, and What International Humanitarian Law Has to Do with It, in: Anne Peters (ed), Studies in Global Animal Law, 121-131 (Springer 2020)
- Saskia Stucki & Christoph Winter, Of Chicks and Men: Anmerkungen zum BVerwG-Urteil über die Tötung männlicher Küken, Verfassungsblog, 17 June 2019
- Saskia Stucki & Juan C Herrera, Habea(r)s Corpus: Some Thoughts on the Role of Habeas Corpus in the Evolution of Animal Rights, International Journal of Constitutional Law Blog, 4 November 2017
- Saskia Stucki, Die Nutzung kommt vor dem Schutz – und andere Lehren aus der neuen Küken-Rechtsprechung, 7 Rechtswissenschaft 521–541 (2016)
- Saskia Stucki, Grundrechte für Tiere: Eine Kritik des geltenden Tierschutzrechts und rechtstheoretische Grundlegung von Tierrechten im Rahmen einer Neupositionierung des Tieres als Rechtssubjekt (Nomos 2016)
- Saskia Stucki, Toward Hominid and Other Humanoid Rights: Are We Witnessing a Legal Revolution?, Verfassungsblog, 30 December 2016
- Anne Peters, Saskia Stucki & Livia Boscardin (eds), Animal Law: Reform or Revolution? (Schulthess 2015)
- Anne Peters & Saskia Stucki, Tierversuchsrichtlinie 2010/63/EU: Rechtsgutachten zu ihrer Umsetzung in Deutschland (Schulthess 2014)
- Saskia Stucki, Sind die Menschenrechte in Zukunft noch Menschen-Rechte?, Völkerrechtsblog, 13 May 2014