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http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/add25a7b9ad5a59e https://verfassungsblog.de/global-value-chain-charter/ The Legal Form of Animals in Global Value Chain Law - And What It Says About How Law Constructs The Social Condition Kjaer, Poul F. eng 2025-07-01 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Animal Law Charta der Grundrechte | Europäische Union European Charter of Fundamental Rights Philosophy of Law animal rights anthropocentrism social constructionism Charta der Grundrechte | Europäische Union Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union makes no mention of animals—a silence that reflects a broader pattern across EU law, including in Global Value Chain Law (GVC Law), which governs the legal infrastructures of global economic activity. Animals hold no particular legal status in this domain, revealing striking parallels in how law has historically shaped and domesticated both human and animal life. Rethinking this shared legal trajectory sheds new light on the social condition underpinning the fundamental values of EU law.