Our Centre is inviting applications for its 2022 Law Lecturers’ Workshop. The 5-day Workshop is open to Law lecturers and PhD students interested in teaching animal rights law, and will be held at the Animal & Law Chair of the University of Antwerp, Belgium, from 18th to 22nd July 2022. The Workshop will have dedicated sessions for participants from Belgian and Dutch universities, for whom travel to and from Antwerp will be covered. Accommodation (if required) will be covered for all participants. More information about the Workshop and how to apply is available here.
A warm welcome to our new academic Visitors
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.