The Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law ran its first Essay Competition this year. Our competition title followed 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? Our Centre invited essays on the same question: Is it lawful to enslave the unconsenting? We have received a large number of excellent submissions and are delighted to announce the winners on our Essay Competition site, where you can also read the winning essays.
Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy Term Card
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.