Our Centre is delighted to host two academic Visitors during Lent Term: Carolina Leiva Ilabaca and Katharina Braun. Carolina is a lawyer and PhD candidate in Law at the University of Chile and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her research at our Centre will be focused on examining different approaches to the concept of subjecthood, with the aim of a possible ascription of subjective rights to non-human animals. Katharina is a PhD candidate in Law at Freie Universität Berlin. During her visit at our Centre, Katharina will be examining whether the concept of consent can be employed to distinguish between permissible and impermissible human-animal interactions such as in the context of animal farming and animal testing. You can view their full research profiles here. Our Visitors will also present their research in the Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series.
Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy Term Card
We are delighted to release the Lent 2022 term card of the Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series. Kendra Coulter (Brock University) will kick off with her presentation “Animals at Work: Cultivating Interspecies Solidarity and Humane Jobs” on January 25. On January 27, Dinesh Wadiwel (University of Sydney) will deliver a talk on “The War against Animals: The State and Private Dominion”. Angela Martin (University of Basel) will join us on February 8 for her talk “Animal Research that Respects Animal Rights: Extending Ethical Research Requirements from Humans to Animals”. Finally, we are pleased to have presentations by our two academic Visitors: on February 24, Katharina Braun (FU Berlin) will present her paper “Examining Consent-based Justifications for Human-Animal Interactions”, and on March 1, Carolina Leiva Ilabaca (University of Chile) will present on “Opening the Toolbox: Prolegomenon for an Ascription of (Legal) Subjective Rights to Animals”. All talks are free and open to all and will take place on Zoom. Registration links are available here.
Our Centre is featured in the Sunday Telegraph
The Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law is featured in today’s issue of the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday edition of the UK newspaper the Daily Telegraph. The article sheds light on the Centre’s history and its educational role. In the words of our Director, Dr Butler:
As an academic institute the Centre’s role is to research, reflect, and publish, so that if — or when — there is a demand for animals to be granted rights, the legal groundwork will have been done and there will be an understanding of what animal rights laws could look like and what the implications would be.
We are delighted to see that there is national interest in the UK in animal rights law and an increasing awareness of the need for better understanding of the questions raised by attempts worldwide to secure rights protection for animals. The article is available here and can be accessed fully by starting a free trial.