We are delighted to welcome our new Visitors who will be conducting research at our Centre during Lent Term 2021: Eva Bernet Kempers, Pablo Pérez Castelló, and Joshua Jowitt. Eva is a PhD student at the University of Antwerp and will join us to develop a continental European perspective on animal personhood. Pablo is a PhD candidate at Royal Holloway University of London and will explore how Australia’s Constitution would have to change if wild animals had sovereignty. Josh is a Lecturer at Newcastle Law School and will be working on a natural law approach to legal animal rights. We will also have the pleasure of hosting Ankita Shanker who is a PhD in Law candidate at the University of Lucerne. Ankita will be joining us from April to September 2021 on a scholarship by the Swiss National Science Foundation to work on a project that attempts to identify the content, strength, and limits of fundamental animal rights and personhood. Our Visitors’ full research profiles can be accessed here.
Essay Competition 2020-21
Our Centre is pleased to announce its first Animal Rights Law Essay Competition. Our first competition title follows in the footsteps of the competition run in 1795 by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, when the question was: Anne liceat invitos in servitutem dare? (“Is it lawful to enslave the unconsenting?”). The competition was won by Thomas Clarkson, setting him on a course to become one of the leading English abolitionists. Our Centre is now inviting essays on the same question: Is it lawful to enslave the unconsenting?Three prizes will be awarded. Click here to find out more about how to participate.
Call for Applications Law Lecturers' Workshop
The Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law is inviting up to four Law lecturers from European universities to Cambridge for a 4-day workshop on how to offer an Animal Rights Law course, to be held in Cambridge on mutually agreeable dates in May 2021. Travel to Cambridge and accommodation costs in Cambridge will be covered by the Centre. More information about the Workshop and on how to apply is available in the Law Lecturers’ Workshop section.