A Warm Welcome to our New Visitors

We are delighted to welcome our new Visitors who will be conducting research at our Centre during Lent Term 2021: Eva Bernet Kempers, Pablo Pérez Castelló, and Joshua Jowitt. Eva is a PhD student at the University of Antwerp and will join us to develop a continental European perspective on animal personhood. Pablo is a PhD candidate at Royal Holloway University of London and will explore how Australia’s Constitution would have to change if wild animals had sovereignty. Josh is a Lecturer at Newcastle Law School and will be working on a natural law approach to legal animal rights. We will also have the pleasure of hosting Ankita Shanker who is a PhD in Law candidate at the University of Lucerne. Ankita will be joining us from April to September 2021 on a scholarship by the Swiss National Science Foundation to work on a project that attempts to identify the content, strength, and limits of fundamental animal rights and personhood. Our Visitors’ full research profiles can be accessed here.