Dr. Felix Aiwanger is Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Hamburg and lecturer at Bucerius Law School. After completing his doctoral studies at the University of Munich, he was legal advisor to the State Animal Protection Commissioner at the Berlin Senate Department for Justice and Consumer Protection. He is a member of the German Association for Animal Protection Law and serves on the editorial board of the Journal for Animal Law, Ethics and One Health. His current research focuses on the legal status and representation of animals from comparative perspectives.