Animal Rights Law Essay Competition 2023

The Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law is pleased to announce its third Animal Rights Law Essay Competition. This year, we are inviting essays on the question:

Richard Ryder once wrote: “Since Darwin, scientists have agreed that there is no ‘magical’ essential difference between human and other animals, biologically-speaking. Why then do we make an almost total distinction morally?” Assuming that is correct, how does this affect the arguments for and against animal rights laws?

More information about the Competition and how you can participate is available here.

Call for Applications Law Lecturers' Workshop Vermont

Are you interested in teaching animal rights law? But does your university not offer any courses in this burgeoning field? Sean Butler and Raffael Fasel from the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law are providing a 5-day Law Lecturers’ Workshop that gives you all the tools you need to design your own course. The Workshop is organised in collaboration with the Vermont Law & Graduate School’s Animal Law & Policy Institute and will take place from 8-12 May 2023 in Burlington, VT. Preference will be given to candidates from US and Canadian schools, but the Workshop is also open to other applicants. Apply by the December 23rd deadline to become part of the next generation of animal rights law teachers! Click here for more information.

Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy Term Card

We are pleased to release the Michaelmas Term card of the Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series. We will start with a presentation by Angela Fernandez (Toronto) on “Animals as Property, Quasi-Property or Quasi-Person” (19 October). On 23 November Paula Casal (Pompeu Fabra) and Peter Singer (Princeton) will join us to launch their new book “The Rights of Apes”. The term will be rounded off with a presentation by Peter Niesen (Hamburg) on “Which ‘All Subjected’-Principle for Animals?” on 1st December. All events are free and open to all and will be held on Zoom. You can find more information and register here.