We are pleased to release the Easter Term card of the Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series. All events will take place on Zoom from 5-6.30 pm and are free and open to the public. On 6 May, Torben Spaak (Professor in Jurisprudence at Stockholm University) will present his paper "Animal Law: Human Duties or Animal Rights?". This presentation is followed on 18 May by Katie Sykes’s (Associate Professor of Law at Thompson Rivers University) talk on "International Law, General Principles, and Animal Welfare". Finally, on 7 June, Ankita Shanker (Visitor at the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law and PhD candidate at the University of Lucerne) will present on "Rights-Holding Persons and the Personhood and Rights They Hold". Click here for more information about the talks and how you can register and receive a Zoom link.
Roundtable on Animal Legal Personhood
The Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law is pleased to support the Roundtable on Animal Legal Personhood: Perspectives from Continental Law, co-organised by Eva Bernet Kempers, who is a Visitor at our Centre. The aim of this Roundtable, which will take place on March 26th from 5-7pm (UK time), is to open the floor to animal law scholars working in the continental civil law tradition in order to enrich and diversify the debate on animal personhood. The event is free and will take place online via YouTube Live Stream and Zoom. Click here to register for the event and to see the full programme.
Animal Rights Law Course
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.