By Jenny Canham, Campaigns and Public Affairs Specialist, Animal Equality UK Animal Equality, a leading animal protection organisation, has joined with cross-party MP representatives to respond to DEFRA’s recent announcement of plans to implement a ban on foie gras imports ‘in the next few...
By Otis Graham, Barrister April 3 marked the second celebration of World Aquatic Animal Day, an occasion created by the Lewis & Clark Law School and its Aquatic Animal Law Initiative (AALI). The theme this year is ‘The Impact of Our Human Activities on Aquatic Animals’. Human activity impacts...
By Pablo P. Castelló, PhD Candidate in Philosophy at Royal Holloway University of London Philosopher Alasdair Cochrane has recently developed the notion of sentient rights, a system that would recognise all sentient animals as bearers of rights.i He interprets Peter Singer’s understanding of...
By Dr Iyan Offor, Law Lecturer & member of A-LAW Scottish Steering Committee Could Brexit provide the stimulus needed for the UK Government to implement mandatory method of production labelling for animal products (like it already does for eggs)? There is certainly hope, with ongoing...
Mary and her dog, Foxie. Mary is a first-year graduate law student at the University of Edinburgh. She aspires to use her legal career to contribute to improving animal welfare standards and promote education of animal law. We commend her on the recent development of her A-law Student...
By Denise Ho, law student In its 68th session, the United Nations General Assembly declared March 3rd to be World Wildlife Day. Since 2013, the date has marked an annual celebration of wildlife, bringing awareness and appreciation to the dense ecosystems we cohabit with on this planet....
By Chris Butler-Stroud and Sarah Dolman, Whale and Dolphin Conservation For International Marine Mammal Protection Day, we asked WCD what laws they would like to see changed to protect marine mammals. This is their response. The increasing pressures that marine mammals face worldwide,...
By Cathy Jaquiss & Alexis Slatter, barristers-at-law The recent judicial opinion in McKiver v. Murphy-Brown, LLC (4th Cir. 2020) features insightful analysis of what happens when the farming industry forgets that better treatment of non-human animals will benefit humans. Documenting...
Review by Randi Milgram, A-LAW Blog Editor and Companion Animals SIG Co-chair The book “What Can Animal Law Learn from Environmental Law?”, now in its second edition, is at once a legal textbook (though a fairly accessible one) and a call to action. It’s a veritable treatise on the answer to the...
By Angelica Botta, LLB Last month, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced it has amended the Air Carrier Access Act, affecting the regulations concerning service animals and emotional support animals. The department received more than 15,000 comments from passengers with disabilities,...
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