Research

1.     Peer-reviewed Books/Monographs

  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Kendra Coulter & Will Kymlicka (eds.), Animal Labour: A New Frontier of Interspecies Justice? 240 pages (OUP, Oxford, 2020), link

Reviewed by

  • Diego Rossello, Animal Labour: A New Frontier of Interspecies Justice? 19(1) Perspectives on Politics 249-51 (2021)
    • Luigi Lonardo, Animal Labour. A New Frontier of Interspecies Justice? 38 (1) Journal of Applied Philosophy 172-4 (2020)
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Protecting Animals Within and Across Borders: Extraterritorial Jurisdiction and the Challenges of Globalization 520 pages (OUP, New York, 2019), link

Reviewed by

  • Justin Marceau, Protecting Animals Within and Across Borders: Extraterritorial Jurisdiction and the Challenges of Globalizationby Charlotte E. Blattner (review), 12(2) Journal of Animal Ethics 205-208 (2022)
    • Veerle Platvoet, Protecting Animals Within and Across borders: Extraterritorial Jurisdiction and the Challenges of Globalization, by Charlotte E. BlattnerOxford University Press, 2021; 30: 420–422 pp, £61.00, hardback, 30(3) Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (RECIEL) 420-422 (2021)
    • Cedric Ryngaert, Blattner, Charlotte E.: Protecting Animals Within and Across Borders: Extraterritorial Jurisdiction and the Challenges of Globalization, 80 ZaöRV 263-270 (2020)
    • Margo De Mello, Protecting Animals Within and Across Borders: Extraterritorial Jurisdiction and the Challenges of Globalization, Review for Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (2020)
    • Barbara Felde, Charlotte E. Blattner: Globales Tierrecht in Zeiten globaler Tierquälerei, 42 NuR 107 (2020)
    • Torben Guretzki, Schutz von Tieren kennt keine (Staats-)Grenzen, 17 Tierstudien 161-162 (2020)
    • Laura Moussa García, Protecting Animals within and across Borders. Extraterritorial Jurisdiction and the Challenges of Globalization, 109 Revista de la Facultad de Derecho 1-2 (2020)
    • Nathalie Kupfer, Protecting Animals within and across Borders: Extraterritorial Jurisdiction and the Challenges of Globalization, 52 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol. 333-339 (2019)
    • David Chauvet, Le droit animalier à l’heure de la globalization,1(2) Revue Semestrielle de Droit Animalier (RSDA) 246-250 (2019)
  • Vanessa Gerritsen, Andreas Rüttimann & Charlotte E. Blattner, Zulässigkeit von Beschränkungen des Handels mit tierquälerisch hergestellten Pelzprodukten, 136 pages (Schriftenreihe Tier im Recht, Zürich 2017), link

2.     Publications in Peer-reviewed Scientific Journals  

  • Maneesha Deckha, Margot Michel, David Azilagbetor, Charlotte E. Blattner, Rosa Maria Cajiga Morales, Gail Davies, Bernice Elger, Sara Faizee, Marie Fox, Vanessa Gerritsen1, Adrian Heuss, Laura Kämpfen, Edwin Louis-Maerten, Nicole Lüthi, Aoife Milford, Nico Dario Müller, Kirsten Persson, Merel Ritskes-Hoitinga, Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser, Andreas Rüttimann, Katerina Stoykova, Saskia Stucki & Miriam A. Zemanova, Accelerating Animal Replacement: How Universities Can Lead — Results of a One-Day Expert Workshop in Zurich, Switzerland, 53(2) ATLA (2025)
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Robert Finger & Karin Ingold, Why Farmers are Taking Their Government to Court over Climate Change, 637 Nature 1050-1052 (2025),link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, European Ruling Linking Climate Change to Human Rights Could Be a Game Changer – Here’s How, 628 Nature 691-692 (2024), link
  • Markus Kern, Charlotte E. Blattner, Peter Bieri & Judith Wyttenbach, Klimaschutz und Subventionen: Braucht es Reformen? Tagungsband zur Tagung organisiert vom Institut für öffentliches Recht und vom Oeschger Center der Universität Bern, 3 URP 213-215 (2024), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner & Jessica C. Tselepy, For Whose Sake and Benefit? A Critical Analysis of Leading International Treaty Proposals to Protect Nonhuman Animals, 72(1) American Journal of Comparative Law 1-32 (2024), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Ana M. Vicedo-Cabrera, Thomas L. Frölicher, Karin Ingold, Christoph C. Raible & Judith Wyttenbach, How Science Bolstered a Key European Climate-Change Case, 621 Nature 255-257 (2023), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Kantonaler Klimaschutz: Übungsfall im öffentlichen Recht, 5 ius.full 126-146 (2022)
  • Will Kymlicka & Charlotte E. Blattner, Animal Labour and Animal Politics: Reply to Critics, 8 Politics & Animals 33-52 (2022), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner & Leonie N. Bossert, Tierarbeit – Animal Labour – Der Versuch einer Einordnung, 14(24) TIERethik 8-38 (2022), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Kendra Coulter, Dinesh Wadiwel & Eva Kasprzycka, Covid-19 and Capital: Labour Studies and Nonhuman Animals – A Roundtable Dialogue, 10(1) Animal Studies Journal 240-272 (2021), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner & Raffael N. Fasel, The Swiss Primate Case: How Courts Have Paved the Way for the First Direct Democratic Vote on Animal Rights, Transnational Environmental Law (TEL) 1-14 (2021), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner & Raffael N. Fasel, Primaten als Grundrechtsträger: Überlegungen zum ersten bundesgerichtlichen Tierrechtsurteil, 2 recht 1-13 (2021), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, From Zoonosis to Zoopolis, 11(4) Derecho Animal (dA, Forum of Animal Law Studies) 41-53 (2020), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner & Raffael N. Fasel, Grundrechte jenseits der «anthropologischen Schranke»? Die Primateninitiative im Lichte des wegweisenden Urteils des Verfassungsgerichts Basel-Stadt, sui generis 413-423 (2020), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Animal Labor, Ecosystem Services, Journal of Animal & Natural Resource Law1-40 (2020), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Right to Work or Refusal to Work: Disability Rights at a Crossroads, Disability & Society (2020), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Should Animals Have a Right to Work? Promises and Pitfalls, 9(1) Animal Studies Journal 32-92 (2020),link
  • Lauren van Patter & Charlotte E. Blattner, Advancing Ethical Principles for Non-Invasive, Respectful Research with Animal Participants, 28(2) Society & Animals 171-190 (2020), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Just Transition for Agriculture? A Critical Step in Tackling Climate Change, 9(3) Journal of Agriculture Food Systems, and Community Development 53-58 (2020), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Secondary Victimization of Animals in Criminal Procedure: Lessons from Switzerland, 10(1) Journal of Animal Ethics 1-32 (2020), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner & Odile Ammann, Animal Agriculture and Farmers’ Rights: Exploring the Human Rights Nexus, 15(2) Journal of Food Law & Policy92-151 (2020), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Sue Donaldson & Ryan Wilcox, Animal Agency in Community: A Political Multispecies Ethnography of VINE Sanctuary, 6 Politics & Animals 1-22 (2020), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Beyond the Goods/Resources Dichotomy: Animal Labor and Trade Law, 22(2) Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy 63-89 (2019), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, The Recognition of Animal Sentience by the Law, 9(2) Journal of Animal Ethics 121-136 (2019), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Wildtiere im Umwelt- und Tierschutzrecht: Zwischen Skylla und Charybdis? 1 Zeitschrift für Kritische Tierstudien 9-36 (2018), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner & Vanessa Gerritsen, Animal Personality im Tierschutzrecht, Internationale Gesellschaft für Nutztierhaltung (IGN) Nutztierhaltung im Fokus: Animal Personality – Persönlichkeit bei Nutztieren 46-51 (2018), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Nun sag, wie hast Du’s mit den Wildtieren? Zur Gretchenfrage im Umwelt- und Tierschutzrecht, 13 Tierstudien 56-69 (2018), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Tackling Concentrated Animal Agriculture in the Middle East through Standards of Investment, Export Credits, and Trade, 10 Middle Eastern Journal of Law and Governance 141-159 (2018), link
  • Vanessa Gerritsen, Andreas Rüttimann & Charlotte E. Blattner, Zulässigkeit von Beschränkungen des Handels mit tierquälerisch hergestellten Pelzprodukten, 15(2) TIERethik 56-85 (2017)
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Tiere lebend essen: Tierschutzstrafrechtliche Analyse eines wachsenden Food-Trends, Ex Ante 5-18 (2017), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Can Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Help Overcome Regulatory Gaps of Animal Law? Insights from Trophy Hunting, 111 American Journal of International Law Unbound 419-424 (2017), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, An Assessment of Recent Trade Law Developments from an Animal Law Perspective: Trade Law as the Sheep in the Wolf’s Clothing? 22(2) Animal Law Review 277-310 (2016), link
  • Christine Kaufmann, Christoph Good, Sabrina Ghielmini & Charlotte E. Blattner, Extraterritorialität im Bereich Wirtschaft und Menschenrechte: Extraterritoriale Rechtsanwendung und Gerichtsbarkeit in der Schweiz bei Menschenrechtsverletzungen durch transnationale Unternehmen, Swiss Center for Expertise in Human Rights 1-110 (SCHR, 2016), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, The Potential and Potential Limits of International Law in Regulating Animal Matters, 3 Mid-Atlantic Journal on Law and Public Policy 10-55 (2015), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, 3R for Farmed Animals – A Legal Argument for Consistency, 1 Global Journal of Animal Law 1-27 (2014), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Stellungnahme zum Potenzial der Reduktion von Treibhausgasen, 2 Jusletter 1-7 (2014), link

3.     Contributions to Books and Edited Volumes

  • Charlotte E. Blattner, The Seminal KlimaSeniorinnen v Switzerland Judgment by the European Court of Human Rights: On Storybook Victories, Double-Victimization, and Why Success is a Matter of Relativity, In: Reparation for Climate Change (Corina Heri & Helen Keller eds.) (OUP, New York, in print 2025)
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Transitional Justice and Animal Law, In: Oxford Handbook of Global Animal Law (Anne Peters, Kristen Stilt & Saskia Stucki eds.) (OUP, New York, in print 2025)
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Art. 13 TSchG: Verkehr mit Tieren und Tierprodukten, In: Kommentar zum Schweizer Tierschutzgesetz TSchG 1-35 (Daniel Jositsch, Margot Michel & Gieri Bolliger eds., Schulthess, Zürich) (in print 2025)
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Art. 14 TSchG: Bedingungen, Einschränkungen und Verbote, In: Kommentar zum Schweizer Tierschutzgesetz TSchG 1-21 (Daniel Jositsch, Margot Michel & Gieri Bolliger eds., Schulthess, Zürich) (in print 2025)
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Art. 22 TSchG: Forschung, In: Kommentar zum Schweizer Tierschutzgesetz TSchG 1-34 (Daniel Jositsch, Margot Michel & Gieri Bolliger eds., Schulthess, Zürich) (in print 2025)
  • Valeska Bernhart & Charlotte E. Blattner, Art. 27 TSchG: Widerhandlungen im Verkehr mit Tieren und Tierprodukten, In: Kommentar zum Schweizer Tierschutzgesetz TSchG 1-22 (Daniel Jositsch, Margot Michel & Gieri Bolliger eds., Schulthess, Zürich) (in print 2025)
  • Charlotte E. Blattner & Gilles Laube, Art. 30 TSchG: Juristische Personen und Handelsgesellschaften, In: Kommentar zum Schweizer Tierschutzgesetz TSchG 1-16 (Daniel Jositsch, Margot Michel & Gieri Bolliger eds., Schulthess, Zürich) (in print 2025)
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Art. 45a TSchG: Koordinationsbestimmung, In: Kommentar zum Schweizer Tierschutzgesetz TSchG 1-6 (Daniel Jositsch, Margot Michel & Gieri Bolliger eds., Schulthess, Zürich) (in print 2025)
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Ein bahnbrechender Fall über die menschenrechtlichen Dimensionen nationaler Klimapolitik und -gesetzgebung? Oder EGMR «gone rogue»? Besprechung von EGMR, Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz  and Others v. Switzerland, No. 53600/20, 9.4.2024, 9 AJP/PJA 976-999 (2024)
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Separation of Powers and KlimaSeniorinnen, In: The Transformation of European Climate Litigation 125-142 (Maxim Bönnemann & Maria Antonia Tigre eds., Verfassungsbooks, Berlin 2024)
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, The Nature and Scope of the Legal Recognition of Animal Sentience: A Functional Comparative Analysis of the Lex Lata, and Critical Remarks on its Future Development, In: The Legal Recognition of Animal Sentience: Principles, Approaches and Applications 11-28 (Jane Kotzmann & M. B. Rodriguez Ferrere eds., Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2024)
  • Charlotte E. Blattner,Solidarity as a Bridge toward Interspecies Justice? The Role of Law and Legal Theory, In: Solidarity with Animals 43-63 (Alasdair Cochrane and Mara-Daria Cojocaru eds., OUP, Oxford, 2024)
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, International Economic Law and Animal Law, In: Elgar Encyclopedia of International Economic Law 1-7 (Thomas Cottier & Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer eds., Edward Elgar, 2d ed., Cheltenham, UK, forthcoming 2024)
  • Charlotte E. Blattner & Leonie N. Bossert, Das Kontinuum tierlicher Arbeit und dessen Bedeutung für gerechte Interspezies-Gesellschaften, 26 Tierstudien 21-30 (2024)
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, International Trade Law and the Commodification of the Living, In: The Routledge Handbook of International Law and Anthropocentrism 61-83 (Vincent Chapaux, Frédéric Mégret & Usha Natarajan eds., Brill, Leiden 2023)
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species Compliance Procedure, In: Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (MPEiPro) N1-N51 (Hélène Ruiz Fabri Hrsg., online, 2021),link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Animal Health and the WTO, In: Encyclopedia of Environmental Law 762-769 (Panos Delimatsis & Leonie Reins eds., Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2021), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Fall 11: KlimaSeniorinnen, In: Fallübungen im Schweizerischen Staatsrecht 181-202 (Raphaela Cueni & Lea Ackermann eds., 2d ed. Stämpfli, Bern, 2021), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner & Odile Ammann, Food Security and Symbolic Legislation in Switzerland: A False Sense of Security?, In: Justice and Food Security in a Changing Climate 349-355 (Hanna Schübel & Ivo Wallimann-Helmer eds., Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, 2021), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner & Eva Meijer, Animals and Climate Change, In: Justice and Food Security in a Changing Climate 64-72 (Hanna Schübel & Ivo Wallimann-Helmer eds., Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, 2021), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Global Migration Crises, Non-human Animals, and the Role of Law, In: “Like an Animal”: Critical Animal Studies Approaches to Borders, Displacement, and Othering 182-254 (Natalie Khazaal & Núria Almiron eds., Brill, Leiden, 2021), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Turning to Animal Agency in the Anthropocene, In: Animals in Our Midst: The Challenges of Co-existing with Animals in the Anthropocene 65-78 (Bernice Bovenkerk & Josef Kulartz eds., Springer, Berlin, 2021) (peer-reviewed), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Animal Impact Assessments: Contesting Denial, Changing the Future? In: What Can Animal Law Learn From Environmental Law? 95-120 (Randall S. Abate ed., 2d ed., ELI Press, Washington DC, 2020) (peer-reviewed), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Animal Labour: Toward a Prohibition of Forced Labour and A Right to Freely Choose One’s Work, In: Animal Labour: A New Frontier of Interspecies Justice? 91-115 (Charlotte E. Blattner, Kendra Coulter & Will Kymlicka eds., OUP, Oxford, 2020) (peer-reviewed), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Kendra Coulter & Will Kymlicka, Introduction: Animal Labour and the Quest for Interspecies Justice, In: Animal Labour: A New Frontier of Interspecies Justice? 1-25 (Charlotte E. Blattner, Kendra Coulter & Will Kymlicka eds., OUP, Oxford, 2020) (peer-reviewed), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Trophy Hunting, the Race to the Bottom, and the Law of Jurisdiction, in Studies in Global Animal Law 135-153 (Anne Peters ed., Springer, Cham, 2020), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Rethinking the 3Rs: From Whitewashing to Rights, In: Animal Experimentation: Working Towards a Paradigm Change 168-193 (Kathrin Herrmann & Kimberley Jayne eds., Brill Human-Animal-Studies Series, Leiden 2019) (peer-reviewed), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Extraterritoriale Jurisdiktion und Tierarbeit – Perspektiven einer globalisierten Ethik, In: Jahrbuch Praktische Philosophie in globaler Perspektive Vol. 2: Schwerpunkt “Natur” als Bezugspunkt der praktischen Philosophie 305-338 (Michael Reder, Alexander Filipović, Dominik Finkelde & Johannes Wallacher eds.) (Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau 2018) (peer-reviewed), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, The Human Animal Bond: 3R for Farmed Animals, In: Multispecies Relations Analysis from Humans and Animals’ Point of View 269-291 (Chiara Blanco & Bel Deering eds., Interdisciplinary Press, Oxford 2015) (peer-reviewed)

4.     Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings and Reviews

  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Toward Inclusive Health and Environmental Policy (review), 31 Society & Animals 131-135 (2022), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Animal Welfare and International Trade Law: The Impact of the WTO Seal Case (review), Canadian Yearbook of International Law 1-6 (John H. Currie & René Provost eds., 2022), link
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Haben Tiere Rechte? Aspekte und Dimensionen der Mensch-Tier-Beziehung (review), 20 TIERethik 133-141 (2020)
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Tiernutzung aus ernährungs-, tier- und umweltethischer Perspektive (review), 16 Tierstudien 179-181 (2019)
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Tieranwalt revisited (review), 14 Tierstudien 170-172 (2018)
  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Antoine F. Goetschel: Animal Spa – die Geschichten des Tieranwalts, 40 Natur und Recht 540 (2018)
  • Eberhart Theuer & Charlotte E. Blattner, The Animal Turn and the Law, 1 TIERethik 131-4 (2014)

5.     Legal Expertise

  • Charlotte E. Blattner, Gutachten im Zusammenhang mit Tierversuchsgesuchen, mit Fokus auf schutzwürdige Interessen der Gesellschaft, Belastungen der Tiere und die Güterabwägung, Sept. 9, 2024 (Auftraggeber anonymisiert)

6.     Other Documents of Scientific Use

  • Claus Beisbart, Charlotte E. Blattner, Thomas Frölicher, Martin Grosjean, Karin Ingold, Fortunat Joos, Jörg Künzli, Christoph Raible, Thomas Stocker, Ana M. Vicedo-Cabrera, Ralph Winkler & Judith Wyttenbach, Third Party Intervention in the Case Verein KlimaSeniorinnen and Others v. Switzerland (Application no. 53600/20), to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Dec. 5, 2022, link
  • Founding of the Network and Homepage Klima&Recht, a homepage offering knowledge of diverse aspects of national and international climate law in condensed and accessible format with short scientific articles, blog posts with pointed opinions and news on current events in and around climate law.