Activities in the field of animal law – animal law
Specialization course
Permanent training course ‘Animal law and welfare’ at the University of Milan Bicocca
The Animal Law and Welfare training course has reached its fourth edition starting in Spring 2024. The aim of the course is to offer the deepening, updating and acquisition of specialized skills, in the area of professional activity and research. identified as animal law – animal law. The course is aimed at various professional categories such as lawyers, non-profit operators, veterinary doctors, animal welfare operators and professionals working with animals in the pet therapy, rescue and similar sectors.
For more information: https://academy.unimib.it/diritto-e-benessere-degli-animali
Legal clinics
Born from the American experience of “critical legal studies”, the legal clinic starts from the idea that students, already during their university training, should have the opportunity not only to learn legal knowledge but also to get in touch with the aspects relating to the concrete application of the law, both from the cognitive and methodological point of view and from the point of view of the exercise of the legal professions. In the clinic, students learn through direct experience, dealing with real people who need legal assistance. In this training course, students are guided by university teachers and external professionals.
In the month of May and June a legal clinic was held at the University of Milan Bicocca concerning the protection of bears and related legal actions which saw as professor members of the Lav (Massimo Vitturi responsible for the wild animal area and Simone Stefani Vice President Lav and Claudio Linzola of the Milan bar who assists Lav in some legal disputes on this issue) coordinated by Prof. Diana Cerini, full professor of Comparative Private Law at the University of Milan Bicocca.
Research activities
The Observatory conducted research activities, on behalf of Almo Nature S.p.A. / Cappellino Foundation, having as its object the study of the position of the animal in EU countries, and in European law, with particular reference to the classification of the animal in the family
Articles and publications
Cerini, D. (2009). “Cari animali”: quando la relazione diventa pericolosa a causa dei leash poles mancanti. Note a margine di Cass. 19 maggio 2009, n. 11570. DIRITTO ED ECONOMIA DELL’ASSICURAZIONE, 1.
Cerini, D. (2012). Il diritto e gli animali. Note gius-privastiche. Torino: Giappichellli.
Prisco, C., Cerini, D. (2013). La concezione degli animali non umani nel diritto civile. Intervento presentato a: Animali non umani: res o soggetti?, Milano.
Cerini, D., Campanaro, C., Palomba, A., Faragò, F. (2014). Animali e codice civile. Intervento presentato a: La tutela giuridica degli animali. Aspetti sostanziali e procedurali., Monza.
Cerini, D. (2019). Gli animali come soggetti-oggetti: dell’inadeguatezza delle norme. THE CARDOZO
ELECTRONIC LAW BULLETIN, 2-2019(2), 1-19.
Cerini, D. (2019). Animal et responsabilité. In Droit et animaux (pp. 51-64). Parigi: société legislation
comparé.
Cerini, D. (2019). Lo strano caso dei soggetti-oggetti: gli animali nel sistema italiano e l’esigenza di una riforma, 10(2), 27-38
Cerini, D. (2022). From “green” to “blue”: l’assicurazione tra sostenibilità e regole del mercato, ASSICURAZIONI, 2-2022, 9-46.
Cerini, D. (2022). Sicurezza degli alimenti tra sostenibilità, benessere animale e gestione assicurativa dei rischi. In M. Torsello, G. Guerra (a cura di), Prospettive e temi per un corso di diritto agroalimentare transnazionale e comparato (pp. 9-46). Napoli : ESI.
Cerini, D., Lamarque, E. (2023). The protection of animals in the new Article 9 of the Constitution [La tutela degli animali nel nuovo articolo 9 della Costituzione]. FEDERALISMI.IT, 2023(24/2023), 32-65.
Cerini, D. (2023). Tutela del benessere animale e attività turistiche. RIVISTA GIURIDICA DELL’AMBIENTE, 3(3), 807-874.
Cerini, D. (In corso di stampa). Le statut de l’animal en droit civil : perspectives et réflexions sur le système italien. In A. Quesne (a cura di), La sensibilité animale. Approches juridiques et enjeux transdisciplinaires (pp. 229-246). Mare & Martin.