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.
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