Chronicle of the second edition of the Animal Law Reading Club

Abstract

The second edition of the Animal Law Reading Club, organized by the DALPS Journal - Derecho Animal - Animal Legal and Policy Studies -, the Universidad Central de Chile, and the Derecho Animal Research Center -dARC-, took place during the first semester of 2025. This initiative aimed to foster collective reflection on recent academic texts addressing emerging dimensions of Animal Law. On this occasion, three works were analyzed: an empirical study on “transfarmation” processes -the voluntary abandonment of livestock farming -, a legal analysis of multispecies families based on Colombian and Spanish case law, and a text examining the ruling of the Constitutional Court of Ecuador in the case of the monkey Estrellita. This chronicle reports on the first two sessions, delving into the methodological, theoretical, and forward-looking discussions generated around the texts by Salliou and Olivera Oliva. The debates highlighted the need to incorporate analytical frameworks that recognize human–animal relationships as politically relevant, both in the realm of public policy and contemporary judicial practice.