[Book review] : International marine mammal law by Selheim, Nikolas
Offor, Iyan (2021) [Book review] : International marine mammal law by Selheim, Nikolas. Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law, 30 (3). pp. 417-420. ISSN 2050-0394 (https://doi.org/10.1111/reel.12394)
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Abstract
Book review of International marine mammal law by Sellheim, Nikolas, Published by Springer, 2020, 225 pp, €70.84, hardback. Tensions reign among communities with vested interests in the regulation of marine mammal hunts. Foremost among these tensions are those between advocates of sustainable use and conservationists, between hunting communities (indigenous and commercial) and animal liberationists, and crucially, between the animals themselves and the human legal systems and actors that profess to govern their lives. Each of these tensions are borne out in interesting ways in Nikolas Sellheim's new book which forwards an anthropocentric narrative on international marine mammal law, by focusing on and elevating the interests of humans over those of marine mammals.
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Item type: Article ID code: 77533 Dates: DateEvent21 March 2021Published21 March 2021Published Online4 March 2021AcceptedKeywords: book review, animal welfare, marine mammal law, Nikolas Selheim, animal law, Law, Zoology, Law, Animal Science and Zoology Subjects: Law
Science > ZoologyDepartment: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Law > Law Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 24 Aug 2021 14:05 Last modified: 18 Nov 2021 09:49 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/77533