4 October 2023Laura Kiy, Tiffany Mitchell, Lotta Teale, Paula Sparks – UK Centre for Animal Law For World Animal Day, we are celebrating recent positive law reforms that have the potential to improve the lives of animals across the globe. We encourage all legislatures and courts around the...
In a case brought by Cruelty Free International, (“CFI”) the High Court ruled on 5 May 2023 that the UK government was acting legally when it relaxed its policy ban on animal testing for cosmetics in 2019. However the judge, Mr Justice Linden, acknowledged that the relaxation of the ban was not...
Join us in extending congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Annual Student Essay Competition. Elena, an aspiring barrister completing vocational studies at the Inns of Court College of Advocacy, is our first-place winner, and you’ll be able to read her essay in our upcoming edition of the UK...
By Nicole Bergman – Law Student and A-LAW Legal Correspondent Our Chair, Paula Sparks, along with Professor Andrew Knight, Professor David Favre, and Dr Aysha Akhtar, discuss [article here] the challenges and progress that’s been achieved since Martin’s Act, the first animal welfare...
Review by Alia De Bellotte, student at The University of Law Orcapedia is a recent work from environmental activist and prolific writer Captain Paul Watson, who is the founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Sea Shepherd, the marine...
By Naomi Harland Smith The morning session of the second day of the Third Animal Law, Ethics and Policy Conference was a decidedly international one, with speakers from Ukraine, India, the EU and the UK. The session opened with keynote speaker Marina Surkova of AZOU (Association of Animal...
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 Rebecca Jones, clinical research professional A recent public Zoom event called “From the Courtroom to the Farm: What We Learn From Cows”, chronicled Canadian law student Edith Barabash’s journey from cow farm worker to animal advocating law student. The event was presented by Friends of...
Review by Erin Lanza, student at BPP University Gary Francione, the controversial legal scholar, author, and professor of animal rights, begins this book with a promise: ‘This book is about a revolution––a revolution of the heart’. A promoter of creative, nonviolent vegan education for more than...
By Mina da Rui, LLM student In 21st century Great Britain, legal reasoning paths are slowly widening as human rights, environmental dysfunction, and animal injustice come to the fore of public consciousness. Animal law is a niche area of law, a tentative but growing jurisprudence. This growth...
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