Call for Abstracts

The Workshop is seeking submissions from current LLM, MSL, PhD candidates, and post-doctoral research fellows from around the world working in the field of comparative animal law broadly understood.

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 inadequacies of regional and international animal rights protection regimes;
• 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.