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Book launch: Raffael N Fasel and Sean C Butler, Animal Rights Law
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Do animals have legal rights? This important new book tells readers everything they need to know about animal rights law. Using straightforward examples from over 30 legal systems from both the civil and common law traditions, and based on popular courses run by the authors at the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights, the book takes the reader from the earliest anti-cruelty laws to modern animal welfare laws, to recent attempts to grant basic rights and personhood to animals. To help readers understand this legal evolution, it explains the ethics, legal theory, and social issues behind animal rights and connected topics such as property, subjecthood, dignity, and human rights. NYU Animal Studies is thrilled to be hosting a launch event for this book, featuring discussion with the authors and animal law experts John Adenitire and Joyce Tischler. |
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Raffael N Fasel is an Affiliated Lecturer at the Cambridge Law Faculty, a Visiting Fellow at the Schell Centre for International Human Rights at Yale Law School, and an affiliate with the University of Zurich. Raffael was previously Teaching Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at Jesus College, Cambridge, and Fellow in Law at LSE Law School. He obtained his PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge (Sidney Sussex College), with a thesis on the legal theory and intellectual history of human and animal rights, for which he was awarded the University’s Yorke Prize. |
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Sean Butler has been a Fellow of St Edmund’s College since 2002; previously he worked at Shell and Nokia. He studied Law at Oxford (St Edmund Hall) and the LSE, as well as Genetics at Cambridge (CPGS) before taking his PhD in social science at Imperial College, London. He specialises in intellectual property strategy in life sciences, and technology-based start-ups. He is also CEO of Cambridge Agritech, a syndicate of investors in agritech startups. He is Director of Studies in Law at St Edmund’s, and teaches Roman Law and Animal Rights Law. |
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John Adenitire is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law and a Fellow of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences. Prior to joining Queen Mary, he was a Lecturer in Law at the University of Birmingham. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law and Fitzwilliam College. He is currently writing a book on animals in constitutional theory for Oxford University press. |
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Joyce Tischler is Professor of Practice, Animal Law at the Center for Animal Law Studies at Lewis & Clark Law School. In 1979, Professor Tischler founded the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF). She served as ALDF’s Executive Director for 25 years, and as its General Counsel until the spring of 2019. Professor Tischler’s earlier experience in the field of animal law is detailed in her two-part article, A Brief History of Animal Law, Part I (1972-1987) and Part II (1985-2011), published in the Stanford Journal of Animal Law and Policy. Professor Tischler is also co-authoring a casebook on Industrialized Animal Agriculture Law. |
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| NYU Animal Studies, active since 2010 and housed in the NYU Department of Environmental Studies, is a central gathering place for people who work on topics concerning nonhuman animals. Our students work with leading scholars in Animal Studies, Environmental Studies, and related fields; participate in intensive seminars, workshops, and conferences; and engage in a wide range of theoretical, practical, and creative pursuits upon graduation. |
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