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- Animal Rights Law
Animal Rights Law
- Sku:
- AR001
- Price:
- US$40.00
- Total Time:
- 64
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Course Description
In this one-hour lecture, we engage how legal systems encounter the animals outside our own species. This one hour lecture is the first of three that cover a series of wide-ranging topics that fall naturally under the general heading “animal law." In this lecture and in the following two lectures, we look at the extent to which legal systems, specific cases, legislation, and background cultural values impact ways in which judges, administrators, politicians, lawyers, law students, legal scholars, and lay people think about animals other than humans.
In this particular lecture we focus on the most general issues, including the most noteworthy changes now found in the substantive areas of tort law, family law, and criminal law. We also look at the issue of standing, and at the end we briefly summarize the most general differences in the “animal law” now in place regarding companion animals (some will use the word “pets” for this area), research animals, food animals, and wildlife.
Paul Waldau is Director of the Center for Animals and Public Policy at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, where he has been teaching ethics for 10 years and also directs one of the world’s leading graduate programs in the study of animals, policy and cultural values. In 2006, Paul was named the first Barker Lecturer in Animal Law at Harvard Law School, where he will again teach the “Animal Law” course in 2008. He has just finished directing the animal law reading group at Yale Law School, and also in the past has taught animal law courses at Boston College and Suffolk University law schools.
Paul has a Doctor of Philosophy degree from University of Oxford. He also has a Juris Doctor degree from UCLA Law School and a Master of Arts degree from Stanford University in Religious Studies.
He is the author of The Specter of Speciesism: Buddhist and Christian Views of Animals published by Oxford University Press in 2001, co-editor of A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics published by Columbia University Press in 2006, and co-editor of the forthcoming (2008) An Elephant in the Room: The Science and Well-being of Elephants in Captivity.
He publishes widely, recent examples of which are the article “Animals” in the prestigious Encyclopedia of Religion and a series of articles on ethics and law instruction in veterinary schools published in Journal of Veterinary Medical Education.
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