ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sara De Vido

Sara De Vido is full Professor of International Law, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, and coordinates the Jean Monnet Module “WHALE – Working on non-Human Animal Law and rights in the Eu” 2023-2026.

POSTS BY Sara de Vido

07 July 2025

Sara de Vido

An Ecofeminist Approach to EU Biodiversity Law

This blog post aims at briefly addressing the issue of hunting as it is regulated in EU biodiversity law using legal ecofeminism as method of analysis. It starts from a reflection on ecofeminism as related to hunting, then argues that EU law, including the EU Charter is inherently anthropocentric, and highlights the ambiguities of EU biodiversity law. By referring to a judgment rendered by the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) on the conservation of wolves in 2019, this post encourages an ecofeminist legal reading of EU biodiversity law. E Continue reading >>