We are again this year offering our course on Animal Rights Law, every Tuesday from 5.00-6.30 pm Weeks 1-8 (Lent Term) starting next Tuesday 26th January. Attendance is open to all. The course will cover the history of animal welfare and animal rights laws, the jurisprudence of animal rights, including legal personhood, animal rights and human rights, locus for animal plaintiffs, draft animal rights treaties, and the latest animal rights law cases. Lectures will be live (on Zoom), with the opportunity to ask questions and discuss the topics. Recordings will be made available. Click here for more information about the course. Please note that it is no longer possible to enrol in the course.
Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy Term Card
We are pleased to release the Lent Term card of the Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series. We will kick off the term on January 26th with a presentation by Professor Maneesha Deckha on the topic “Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders”. On February 4th, Eva Bernet Kempers, Visiting Student at our Centre and PhD candidate at Antwerp University, will talk about “Animals as Legal Persons: A Necessity or a Luxury? A Perspective from Continental Law”. Dr Josh Jowitt, Visiting Student at our Centre and Lecturer at Newcastle University, will deliver a paper called “The Elephant in the Room: Happy and the Normative Structure of Legal Personhood” on February 24th. Dr Angie Pepper from Roehampton University will be joining us on March 5th with a presentation on “Caring in Non-Ideal Conditions: Animal Rescue Organisations and Morally Justified Killing”. Finally, Pablo Pérez Castelló, Visiting Student at our Centre and PhD candidate at Royal Holloway University will deliver a talk on “The Recognition of Wild Animal Communities in the Australian Constitution” on March 17th. Due to the ongoing pandemic, all talks will be held on Zoom. All events are open to the public and information about how to register is available here.
A Warm Welcome to our New Visitors
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.