Per un ‘diritto degli animali’ e ‘della natura’ tra scetticismo ed adesione a modelli normativi antropocentrici: riflessioni di diritto internazionale (pubblico e privato)

The contribution explores the issue of effective protection of animals and of nature absent a principle of non-human legal personality. Domestic approaches are compared and juxtaposed to international law to argue that the ‘human’ reserved domain to legal personality and rights is not imposed from legal principles or rules, but seems more radicated in a traditional deference to the past. Private international law issues in the recognition of a foreign unknown legal status are also preliminary explored under the focal lens of the public policy exception.