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We are pleased to share with you the second interview in our series “Animal Rights Law: For or Against”. Our guest is Jeff Kerr who is General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs at PETA.
The “Animal Rights Law: For or Against” series interviews leading scholars and practicing lawyers who adopt different perspectives on issues in animal rights law. The next interview with Paula Sparks will be released on July 1st. For more information, see our Animal Rights Interviews page.
We are delighted to release the first interview of our series “Animal Rights Law: For or Against”. Our first guest is Jonathan Lovvorn who is Faculty Co-Director of the Law, Ethics, & Animals Program at Yale Law School.
The “Animal Rights Law: For or Against” series interviews leading scholars and practicing lawyers who adopt different perspectives on issues in animal rights law. The next interview with Jeff Kerr will be released on June 24th. For more information, see our Animal Rights Interviews page.
While the COVID-19 pandemic has unfortunately meant that our Centre had to postpone the events planned for the Easter Term, we are pleased to announce that we have been working on a series of online interviews that you can listen to from the safety and comfort of your homes. The interviews, on the theme “Animal Rights Law: For or Against”, will be conducted with the following senior academics and lawyers working on animal rights and welfare law: Simon Brooman (Liverpool John Moores University), Richard Cupp (Pepperdine University School of Law), David Favre (Michigan State University), Jeff Kerr (PETA Foundation), Jonathan Lovvorn (Yale Law School), and Paula Sparks (A-Law). The interviews will be released weekly on our website and will cover various issues, such as the way forward: welfare, rights, or a third approach; the challenges facing animal rights law; the concept of animal rights law as compared with the concept of animal welfare law; issues within animal rights law which may make it more or less feasible as a direction of travel; and questions surrounding the legal status of animals.
“The object of the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law is to study the law on animal rights. With support from and for colleagues in universities throughout the world, we will provide the legal thinking that will improve our understanding of animal rights laws all over the world.”
— Dr Sean Butler, Director
