“Meat, Murrain, ‘Modernity’: Animals and Slaughterhouse Laws in Colonial India, 1850-1920”

3 December 2024, 3-4.30pm(UK time)

Samiparna Samanta

Professor of History at Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat, India

“Planning the End of Animal Experimentation”

26 November 2024, 5-6.30pm (UK time)

Nico Müller

Philosopher based at the University of Basel, Switzerland

“Animal Dignity or Animal Magnetism? On Extending Dignity to Non-Human Animals”

4 November 2024

Diego Rossello                

Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile

“Social Norms in Animal Cultures”

23 October 2024

Kristin Andrews 

York Research Chair in Animal Minds and Professor of Philosophy at York University, Canada                                                      

“Biblical Rights: Human and Animal”

8 October 2024, 5-6.30pm (UK time)

Saul Olyan

Samuel Ungerleider Jr. Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University

“The Fly in the Ointment: The Problem and Promise of Insect Law and Ethics”

9 May 2024
Rajesh Reddy

Assistant Professor of Law and Animal Law Program Director, Lewis & Clark Law School

“The Rise and Fall of Animal Experimentation”

29 May 2024
Richard Miller

Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology, Northwestern University

Book launch “More Equal Than Others: Humans and the Rights of Other Animals” (OUP 2024)

6 May 2024
Raffael Fasel

Affiliated Lecturer in Law, University of Cambridge, and Co-Director, Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law

Respondents: Maneesha Deckha (University of Victoria); Justin Marceau (University of Denver); Joe Wills (University of Leicester)

“Decolonizing Animals: Elephants and the End of Empire in Myanmar”

6 March 2024, 5-6.30pm (on Zoom)
Jonathan Saha

Professor of South Asian History, Department of History, Durham University

“Losing the Trees for the Forest: A Critique of Rights of Nature as a Basis for Animal Rights”

27 February 2024
Serrin Rutledge-Prior

Research Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University; Visiting Researcher, Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law

“Dog-aganda: How the State Uses Dogs to Manufacture Consent for Violence”

20 February 2024
El Jones

Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics, Economics, and Canadian Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University; Visiting Researcher, Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law

“Animal Law and Regulation in China”

8 February 2024
Deborah Cao

Professor at the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, Griffith University

“A Republic of Fellow Sufferers: Why and How We Should Grant Rights to Nature”

30 January 2024
Sergio Dellavalle

Professor of Public Law and State Theory at the University of Turin; Visiting Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law

“Justice for Animals: a Wrong-Turn for the Capabilities Approach?”

18 January 2024
David Bilchitz

Acting Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa; Professor of Law at the University of Johannesburg and the University of Reading

“Animal Sentience and Interspecies Welfare Comparisons”

30 November 2023
Jonathan Birch

Professor of Philosophy, London School of Economics

“A Bioethical Engagement with the Canadian Council on Animal Care Revised Ethics Document”

21 November 2023
Andrew Fenton

Associate Professor of Philosophy, Dalhousie University

“Fighting for Animals in a Moment of Danger”

14 November 2023
Claire Jean Kim

Professor of Political Science and Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine

“The Fantastical Animal”

17 October 2023
David M. Peña-Guzmán

Associate Professor of Humanities, San Francisco State University

“Animal Plaintiffs”

16 May 2023
Matthew Liebman

Associate Professor and Chair of the Justice for Animals Program, University of San Francisco School of Law

“Sentience and Intrinsic Worth as a Pluralist Foundation for Fundamental Animal Rights”

4 May 2023, 1-2.30pm (UK time)
Jane Kotzmann

Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Deakin Law School

“The Synergism of Animal Law and Science”

25 April 2023
Lori Marino

Executive Director, The Kimmela Center for Scholarship-based Animal Advocacy

Book launch “Animal Rights Law” (Hart 2023)

29 March 2023
Raffael Fasel

Affiliated Lecturer at the Law Faculty, University of Cambridge, and Executive Director, Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law

Sean Butler

Affiliated Lecturer at the Law Faculty, University of Cambridge, Fellow of St Edmund’s College, and Director, Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law

Coversation led by Cebuan Bliss (Radboud) and Joshua Jowitt (Newcastle)

“Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for Domesticated Animals”

14 March 2023
Paulina Siemieniec

Visiting Researcher, Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law and PhD Candidate in Philosophy at Queen’s University

Book launch “One Rights: Human and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene” (Springer 2023)

8 March 2023
Saskia Stucki

Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law

Comments by Sergio Dellavalle (Turin), Michaël Lessard (Toronto/CCARL), and Paulina Siemieniec (Queen’s University/CCARL)

“Beyond Sentience: The Possibilities of Agency and Sociability Legal Recognition”

28 February 2023
Michaël Lessard

Visiting Researcher, Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law and SJD candidate at the University of Toronto

“Dolphins, Captivity, Flourishing and Rights: The Challenge of Interspecies Ethics”

18 January 2023, 5-6.30 pm (UK time)
Thomas White

Conrad N Hilton Chair in Business Ethics Emeritus, Loyola Marymount University

“Which ‘All Subjected’-Principle for Animals?”

1 December 2022
Peter Niesen

Professor of Political Theory, University of Hamburg

Book launch “The Rights of Apes” (Trotta 2022)

23 November 2022
Paula Casal

Professor at ICREA, and Research Professor, Department of Law, University of Pompeu Fabra

Peter Singer

Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University

Comments by Carolina Leiva Ilabaca, University of Chile/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and former Visiting Researcher at the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law.

“Animals as Property, Quasi-Property or Quasi-Person”

19 October 2022
Angela Fernandez

Full Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

Book launch “Carceral Logics” (CUP 2022)

30 May 2022
Justin Marceau

Professor of Law, Brooks Institute Faculty Research Scholar of Animal Law and Policy, Sturm College of Law, University of Denver

Lori Gruen

William Griffin Professor of Philosophy, Wesleyan University

“The Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022: Stating the Obvious or an Obvious Step up?”

23 May 2022
Paula Sparks

Chair of the UK Centre for Animal Law

“Slaughterhouse Workers, Animals, and the Environment: The Need for a Rights-Centered Regulatory Framework in the United States That Recognizes Interconnected Interests”

10 May 2022
Delcianna J. Winders

Associate Professor of Law, Vermont Law School

Elan Abrell

Adjunct Instructor in Anthropology and Animal Studies, NYU Department of Anthropology

“Exploring the Foundations for Legal Animal Rights: Towards a Sentience-interest Pragmatic Account”

1 March 2022
Carolina Leiva Ilabaca

Visiting Student, Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law, PhD in Law candidate, University of Chile and Autonomous University of Barcelona

“Examining Consent-based Justifications for Human-Animal Interactions”

24 February 2022, 5.00-6.30pm (UK time)
Katharina Braun

Visiting Student, Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law, PhD in Law candidate, Free University of Berlin

“Animal Research that Respects Animal Rights: Extending Ethical Research Requirements from Humans to Animals”

8 February 2022, 5.00-6.30pm (UK time)
Angela Martin

Assistant Professor in Philosophy, University of Basel

“The War against Animals: The State and Private Dominion”

27 January 2022
Dinesh Wadiwel

Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney

“Animals at Work: Cultivating Interspecies Solidarity and Humane Jobs”

25 January 2022
Kendra Coulter

Associate Professor in Labour Studies, Brock University

“Animals and the Common Law”

2 December 2021
Joe Wills

Lecturer, Leicester Law School

“The Puzzle of Animal Dignity”

19 November 2021
Visa Kurki

Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki

“Animal Legal Subjectivity: Emerging Models, Enduring Problems”

21 October 2021
Jessica Eisen

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta

“Rights-Holding Persons and the Personhood and Rights They Hold”

7 June 2021
Ankita Shanker

Visiting Student, Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law, PhD in Law candidate, University of Basel

“International Law, General Principles, and Animal Welfare”

18 May 2021
Katie Sykes

Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Thompson Rivers University

“Animal Law: Human Duties or Animal Rights?”

6 May 2021
Torben Spaak

Professor in Jurisprudence, Department of Law, Stockholm University

“The Recognition of Wild Animal Communities in the Australian Constitution”

17 March 2021
Pablo Pérez Castelló

Visiting Student, Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law; PhD candidate at Royal Holloway University of London

“Caring in Non-Ideal Conditions: Animal Rescue Organisations and Morally Justified Killing”

5 March 2021
Angie Pepper

Lecturer in Humanities, University of Roehampton

“The Elephant in the Room: Happy and the Normative Structure of Legal Personhood”

24 February 2021
Joshua Jowitt

Visiting Student, Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law; Lecturer in Law, Newcastle University

“Animals as Legal Persons: A Necessity or a Luxury? A Perspective from Continental Law”

4 February 2021
Eva Bernet Kempers

Visiting Student, Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law; PhD candidate, University of Antwerp

“Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders”

26 January 2021
Maneesha Deckha

Professor, Lansdowne Chair in Law, University of Victoria

“Advancing the Social Justice Interests of Nonhuman and Human Animals Through Pursuit of Due Process for Dogs”

10 December 2020
Taimie Bryant

Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

“Ag-Gag in Canada and the Constitutional Right to See”

12 November 2020
Jodi Lazare

Assistant Professor of Law, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University

“Animal Harm: Perspectives on Why People Harm and Kill Animals”

23 October 2020
Angus Nurse

Associate Professor in Criminology and Sociology, Middlesex University

“Should We Try to Prevent and/or Relieve Wild Animal Suffering?”

11 March 2020
Clare Palmer

Professor of Liberal Arts and Philosophy, Texas A&M University

“On the Ubiquity of Human-Animal Conflict and What Transitional Justice Can Contribute to Its Resolution”

3 March 2020
Charlotte Blattner

Senior Researcher, Faculty of Law, University of Bern

“Zoorisprudence: How Should the Law Treat Animals?”

26 February 2020
Nick Ampt

Visiting Student, Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law; PhD in Law candidate, University of Melbourne

“Intersectionality and the Animal Rights Movement”

10 February 2020
Robyn Trigg

Visiting Student, Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law; DPhil in Law candidate, University of Oxford

“Milking Mothers: the Regulation of Human and Animal Milks”

3 February 2020
Yoriko Otomo

Research Associate, SOAS University of London; Director, Global Research Network

“Aesop and the Greek Law of Animals”

1 November 2019
Fred Naiden

Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of History

“Animal Rights and Veganism as a Moral Imperative”

14 May 2019
Gary Francione

Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of Law and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Scholar of Law and Philosophy, Rutgers University Law School; Honorary Professor (Philosophy), University of East Anglia

“Humans and Their Relationships with Working Animals in Early Modern England: The Value and Problem of Legal Evidence”

28 March 2019
Erica Fudge

Professor of English, School of Humanities, University of Strathclyde

“Freedom of Religion v. Animal Welfare: The Case of Unstunned Ritual Slaughter”

31 January 2019
Paul Cliteur

Professor of Jurisprudence, Law School, Leiden University

“An Animal History of Zoos”

2 May 2018
Violette Pouillard

Postdoctoral Assistant in History, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Ghent University

“The Struggle of the Nonhuman Rights Project for the Legal Personhood of Non-human Animals”

5 April 2018
Steven Wise

Founder and President of the Nonhuman Rights Project

“The Unhappy Marriage of Animality and Cognitive Disability”

6 March 2018
Alice Crary

Scholar at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Study, School of Social Science; Professor of Philosophy and Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy and Christian Ethics, University of Oxford 

“Suffering in Non-human Animals”

23 January 2018
Peter Fordyce

RSPCA and Blue Cross Clinician & Affiliated Lecturer in Animal Welfare Science, Ethics and Law, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge 

“Values in Animal Cognitive Science”

22 November 2017
Marta Halina

University Lecturer in the Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

“Are Human Rights Animals’ Rights, Too?”

2 May 2017
Saskia Stucki

Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg

“Collective Responsibility: Animals, the State, and Public Policy”

5 April 2017
Mike Radford

Reader, School of Law, University of Aberdeen 

“A Theory of Global Inter-Species Justice”

15 February 2017
Alasdair Cochrane

Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, Department of Politics, University of Sheffield

“Three Puzzles for Animal Rights: Cows, Lions, and Featherless Chickens”

17 November 2016
Jeff Skopek

Lecturer in Medical Law, Ethics and Policy, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

“Animal Law and Environmental Law: Parallels and Synergies” &

“A Person by Any Other Name? Potential Legal Recognition of Non-human Animal Legal Personhood in Australia and the United States”

11 & 12 October 2016
Randall Abate

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, Florida A&M University 

“Animals and Democratic Theory: Beyond an Anthropocentric Approach”

10 May 2016
Robert Garner

Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester

“A Moderate Position on the Political and Legal Status of Sentient Animals”

26 February 2016
Ben Sachs

Lecturer in Philosophy, School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies, University of St. Andrews

“‘Some Are More Equal Than Others’: The Protection of Animals Under UK Law”

9 February 2016
Natalie Cargill

Pupil Barrister, Littleton Chambers

“The Status of Non-human Animals: Science, Philosophy, Law”

(with an introduction by Jeff Skopek)

27 November 2015
Michael Bowman

Associate Professor in Law, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nottingham