Martin Dufala, Lenka Grešová. 2021 "Do Animals Have Any Rights in Slovakia?". Studia Iuridica Lublinensia 3:47-65. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=983198

Author(s): Martin Dufala, Lenka Grešová

Martin Dufala, PhD, Assistant Professor, Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Law, Department of Administrative and Environmental Law.   Lenka Grešová, Internal PhD Student, Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Law, Department of Administrative and Environmental Law, Šafárikovo nám. č. 6, P.O.BOX 313, 810 00 Bratislava, Slovakia.
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Energy and Environmental Studies, Public Law, Studies in violence and power
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: animal protection; environmental law; Slovak legislation;

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on assessing whether the current Slovak legal framework provides animals with a sufficient level of protection against cruelty and maltreatment. Past and current Slovak legislation on animal protection was analyzed in light of the major animal welfare challenges that Slovakia faces today. Contrary to what the title of the study suggests, a different approach was chosen to strengthen the protection of animals – not through the concept of animal rights, but the concept of human rights to a favourable environment. In addition, the possibility of using the already existing environmental law legal instruments when the well-being of animal is threatened was discussed.