Professor Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He works mostly in practical ethics, and is best known for Animal Liberation and his writings about global poverty. A revised version of Animal Liberation has been published this year as Animal Liberation Now. |
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Dr. Dale Jamieson is Professor of Environmental Studies Emeritus at New York University, and Affiliated Professor of Law; Affiliated Professor of Medical Ethics, School of Medicine; and Associated Faculty, Center for Bioethics, College of Global Public Health. He is the Founding Director of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection. The second edition of Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction will be published early next year. |
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Dr. Becca Franks is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU. Dr. Franks’s research and teaching lie at the intersection of environmental and animal protection. She specializes in animal behavior, aquatic animal welfare, quantitative methods, and human-animal relationships. Her recent papers include “What Do Animals Want?” and “Animal welfare risks of global aquaculture.” |
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Dr. Susana Monsó is Assistant Professor at UNED in Madrid, where she specializes in philosophy of animal minds, animal ethics, and the philosophy of comparative psychology. In 2021 she published La zarigüeya de Schrödinger: Cómo viven y entienden la muerte los animales (Schrödinger's Opossum: How Animals Live and Understand Death), which has been translated into Italian and Russian and is forthcoming in English with Princeton University Press. |
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Professor Douglas Kysar is Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law at Yale Law School and faculty co-director of the Law, Ethics, and Animals Program. His teaching and research areas include torts, animal law, environmental law, climate change, products liability, and risk regulation. His recent books include The Torts Process (10th edition, 2022) edited with James A. Henderson, Jr., and Climate Change Litigation in the Asia Pacific (2020), edited with Jolene Lin. |
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Dr. Lori Gruen is William Griffin Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Wesleyan University. She has written on a wide range of topics in practical ethics, feminist philosophy, and political philosophy. Her most recent books are Animal Crisis (2022), co-authored with Alice Crary; Carceral Logics (2022) co-edited with Justin Marceau; and Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth (second edition 2022), co-edited with Carol J. Adams. |
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| Thank you to the Brooks Institute for Animal Law and Policy for their generous support of this event. |
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