CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 3rd Annual Comparative Animal Law Postgraduate Workshop T

The Center for Animal Law Studies and co-hosts announced a Call for Abstracts in November 2024 to seek submissions from LLM, MSL, PhD candidates, and post-doctoral research fellows from around the world working in the field of comparative animal law broadly understood. The deadline is approaching.

Students who want to present their research at the Workshop must complete this form by February 15, 2025. Up to 8 selected participants will benefit from the opportunity to present their work at our 3rd Annual Postgraduate Workshop on Comparative Animal Law held virtually on April 8-9, 2025.

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Participants are invited to reflect on a variety of topics pertaining to comparative animal law such as:

  •     histories of animals in law;
  •     the constitutionalization of animal rights;
  •     tensions between animal rights and local cultures;
  •     interpretation and translation issues in animal law;
  •     epistemological and methodological aspects of animal law research;
  •     the economics and politics of animal law;
  •     the transferability of legal rules related to animals;
  •     conflicts between animal rights and human rights;
  •     intersections between animal law and environmental law;
  •     the challenges of global animal law;
  •     the future of comparative animal law.

This list is not exhaustive, and other topics regarding comparative animal law are also welcome.

The Comparative Animal Law Postgraduate Workshop is a collaboration among: the Faculty of Law and Political Science, Aix-Marseille University, France; the Center for Animal Law Studies, Lewis & Clark Law School, USA; Kent Centre for European and Comparative Law, Kent Law School, Canterbury, UK; the NALSAR University of Law, India; and the Faculty of Law, University of Timi?oara, Romania, and the South African Institute for Advanced Constitution, Public, Human Rights and International Law, a Centre of the University of Johannesburg.

For more information about the Workshop, click the button below or visit ComparativeAnimalLaw.org.