Oxford Animal Ethics Summer School Animal Ethics and Law: Creating Positive Change for Animals 22-25 July, 2018

Provisional Programme

The Fifth Annual Oxford Animal Ethics Summer School Animal Ethics and Law: Creating Positive Change for Animals 22-25 July, 2018

Sunday 22nd July

4.00-5.00pm: Registration in the Summer School Office

5.00pm: Reception in the Common Room

Welcome by Professor Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey

6.00pm: Welcome Buffet Meal

Dining Room

8.00pm: Unlocking the Cage (Documentary)

Followed by a question and answer with Steve Wise Lawyer and President of the Nonhuman Rights Project

Showing in the Couratin Room

Monday 23rd July

7.30-8.30am: Breakfast in the Dining Hall

8.30-9.00am: Registration in the Summer School Office

Couratin Room Hope Room

Chair: Professor David Favre Chair: David Thomas

9.00-9.40 9.00-9.40 Dr Randall Lockwood Camille Labchuk Senior Vice President Executive Director American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal Justice Animals The creeping privatization of animal protection Bringing animal cruelty investigation into mainstream lawmaking and enforcement law-enforcement in the United States

9.40-10.20 9.40-10.20 Kimberly Moore Lena Heheman Attorney Doctoral Candidate, Institute of European Law Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Oceans in crisis and global initiatives to address The project evaluation requirement in art. 36 (2) plastic pollution Directive 2010/63: Direct applicability as an instrument for improving animal welfare?

10.20-10.50am: Tea and Coffee in the Common Room

Chair: Carter Dillard Chair: Professor Justin Marceau

10.50-11.30 10.50-11.30 Stephanie O’Flynn Andrew Bashi Doctoral Candidate, National University of Ireland, Veterinary Medicine Candidate Galway Cornell University Dr Maureen O’Sullivan Lecturer, National University of Ireland, Galway From cage to cage: Confronting incarceration as a means of obtaining animal justice Animal law: Ireland and the UK compared

11.30-12.10 11.30-12.10 Professor Kathy Hessler Martina Pluda Clinical Professor and Director, Animal Law Clinic Head of Programmes Lewis and Clark Law School FOUR PAWS, Austria

Legal and ethical issues for sanctuaries Animal law in the Third Reich: Historical and legal analysis of the Nazi laws and their influence on current German (and Austrian) legislation

Couratin Room Hope Room

12.10-12.50 12.10-12.50 Dr Mike King David Williams Senior Lecturer, Bioethics Centre, University of Otago Former Oxfordshire County Councillor M. B. Rodriguez Ferrere Green Party, Oxford Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Otago The role of British Local Government in the protection Animal welfare law in New Zealand: Oversight, of animals compliance, and enforcement

12.50-1.50pm: Buffet Lunch in the Dining Hall

Chair: Professor Kay Peggs Chair: Dr A. W. H. Bates

1.50-3.50 1.50-2.30 Roundtable: Reports from around the Globe Dr Oliver B. Langworthy Associate Lecturer in Theology Professor Letícia Albuquerque University of St. Andrews Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Animal ethics, law, and the law in Christian late Dr Kishor Dere antiquity Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India 2.30-3.10 Jingzhao Fan Christine Morrow Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia Former Curator Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Dr Hanna Fotina Sumy National Agrarian University, Ukraine Entertaining the in-laws: Human-animal relations and obligations in contemporary Indigenous art from Shih-Yun Wu Oceania University of Eastern Finland (Taiwan) 3.10-3.50 Dr Svitlana Zapara Kaitlyn Abrams Sumy National Agrarian University, Ukraine Masters Candidate St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford Yunjie Zhang Glasgow University (China) CITES and the case of the Chinese and Sunda pangolin

3.50-4.20pm: Tea and Coffee in the Common Room

Chair: Professor Angela Fernandez Chair: Jennifer Clements

4.20-5.00 4.20-5.00 Professor David Favre Dr Rajesh Reddy Professor of Law Visiting Professor, Center for Animal Law Studies Michigan State University College of Law Lewis and Clark Law School

From ethics into law Animals in art or animal cruelty?: Debating depictions of dog fighting and free speech at the Guggenheim Museum

Couratin Room Hope Room

5.00-5.40 5.00-5.40 Rebecca Rose Stanton Solana Joy Doctoral Candidate Writer Northumbria University Housing rights and forever homes: Reforms to make “No animals were harmed”? A history and discussion our cities more liveable for non-humans of the laws concerning animals used in the American film industry

5.40-6.20 5.40-6.20 Professor Boris Bakota Sidney Blankenship Professor, Faculty of Law Associate Fellow Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics

Legal history of animal rights and protection The royal law in animal ethics legislation in Croatia

6.30pm: Sherry in the Common Room

7pm: Buffet Dinner in the Dining Hall

Tuesday 24th July

7.30-8.30am: Breakfast in the Dining Hall

Couratin Room Hope Room

Chair: Dr Rajesh Reddy Chair: Andrew Bashi

9.00-9.40 9.00-9.40 Steve Wise Professor James E. Helmer President Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics Nonhuman Rights Project Xavier University, Cincinnati

The struggle of the Nonhuman Rights Project to attain Political not metaphysical? Animal rights without legal rights for nonhuman animals animal agency?

9.40-10.20 9.40-10.20 Professor Teresa Giménez-Candela Mariah Beck Professor of Law, Autonomous University of DVM Candidate Barcelona Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine Nuria Menéndez de Llano Doctoral Candidate, University of Oviedo Plastic pollution: An urgent issue for global animal welfare and implementation strategies to motivate The changing legal paradigm for animals in Spain: positive change From things to sentient beings

10.20-10.50am: Tea and Coffee in the Common Room

Couratin Room Hope Room

Chair: Camille Labchuk Chair: Professor Samantha Hurn

10.50-11.30 10.50-11.30 Ruaidhrí Wilson Carla Campanaro Independent scholar Head of Legal Office, LAV Doctoral Candidate, University of Rome Sapienza

Crimes against non-humanity: The case of the African The Green Hill case elephant

11.30-12.10 11.30-12.10 Professor Justin Marceau The Revd Matthew J. Webber Professor, Strum College of Law Priest and scholar University of Denver Why anti-cruelty laws are not enough Against carceral animal law

12.10-12.50 12.10-12.50 Dr Katy Taylor Rebecca Jenkins Head of Science Aquatic Animal Law Initiative Fellow Cruelty Free International Lewis and Clark Law School

The law on paper and in practice: An example from Lab grown meat: The final frontier for agricultural REACH chemicals testing involving animals animal law

12.50-1.50pm: Buffet Lunch in the Dining Hall

Chair: Dr Randall Lockwood Chair: Dr Joe Wills

1.50-2.30 1.50-2.30 Carter Dillard Robyn Hederman Senior Policy Advisor Associate Fellow Animal Legal Defense Fund Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics

Constituting over constitutions: A more fundamental The Gallinger Bill: Forerunner of the 1966 Laboratory approach to animal rights Animal Welfare Act

2.30-3.10 2.30-3.10 Professor Angela Fernandez Dr Kenneth Valpey (Krishna Kshetra Swami) Associate Professor, Faculty of Law Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies University of Toronto University of Oxford

A quasi-property/quasi-personhood status for Whither bovinity?: Hindu dharma, the Indian state, nonhuman animals and conflicting moral perspectives over cow protection

Couratin Room Hope Room

3.10-3.50 3.10-3.50 Professor Kathy Hessler Professor Rachel Wechsler Clinical Professor, Lewis and Clark Law School Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering David Rosengard New York University Staff Attorney, Animal Legal Defense Fund The mainstreaming of veganism: Will the law follow Desmond’s law suit?

3.50-4.20pm: Tea and Coffee in the Common Room

Chair: Dr Maureen O’Sullivan Chair: Professor Rachel Wechsler

4.20-5.00 4.20-5.00 David Thomas Professor Samantha Hurn Lawyer and Legal Adviser Dr Alexander Badman-King Cruelty Free International Exeter Anthrozoology as Symbiotic Ethics Working Group, University of Exeter

Using the law to help animals Who lets the dogs out? Assessing the context for, and implications of, conflicting interpretations of Romania’s stray dog management legislation

5.00-5.40 5.00-5.40 Professor Letícia Albuquerque Susan Kayne Co-Director, Observatory of Environmental Justice Founder and CEO Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Unbridled Thoroughbred Foundation

Genetic engineering and animal rights in Brazil: The The challenges of protecting thoroughbred legal terrain and the ethical underpinnings racehorses from cruelty and slaughter in North America

5.40-6.20 5.40-6.20 Professor Kendra Coulter Mark Glover Associate Professor, Labour Studies Director Brock University, Canada Respect for Animals

The intersections of animal cruelty investigation Defamation and tyranny: How civil law has been used policy and work: Practical, ethical, and political to silence animal advocates challenges and possibilities

6.55pm: Summer School Official Photograph in Moberly Garden

7.00pm: Champagne Reception in the Cloisters

7.30pm: Gala Dinner

College grace and welcome by The Revd Canon Dr Robin Ward, Principal of St Stephen’s House, University of Oxford

Gala Dinner speakers: Kimberly Moore, Attorney, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Dan and Susan Boggio

Wednesday 25th July

7.30-8.30am: Breakfast in the Dining Hall

Couratin Room Hope Room

Chair: Professor Kendra Coulter Chair: Robyn Hederman

9.00-9.40 9.00-9.40 Dr Jed Goodfellow Dr A. W. H. Bates Honorary Associate, Macquarie University Law School Honorary Senior Lecturer in Anatomical Pathology Senior Policy Officer, RSPCA Australia University College, London

Combating capture in animal welfare policy-making: The loss of charitable status of English antivivisection: The Australian experience How did it happen, and could it be reversed?

9.40-10.20 9.40-10.20 Simon Brooman Dr Philip Sampson Senior Lecturer in Animal Law Independent scholar Liverpool John Moores University Fellow, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics

Animal Law – how should we teach it? Beasts before the law: Animal trials and Puritan sensibilities

10.20-10.50am: Tea and Coffee in the Common Room

Chair: Rebecca Stanton Chair: Dr Oliver B. Langworthy

10.50-11.30 10.50-11.30 Dr Rajesh Reddy Christopher Bryant Visiting Professor, Center for Animal Law Studies Director of Social Sciences Lewis and Clark Law School Cellular Agriculture Society

Meeting the challenge of animal law education and Cellular agriculture: The future of animal products? advocacy in the era of the global marketplace

11.30-12.10 11.30-12.10 Amy P. Wilson Frances Robinson LLM Candidate Associate Fellow Lewis and Clark Law School Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics

The legalization of the rhino horn trade and whether From morally relevant features to relevant legal this is an effective mechanism to protect rhinos protection: A critique of the legal concept of animals as property

Couratin Room Hope Room

12.10-12.50 12.10-12.50 Professor Kay Peggs Shih-Yun Wu Professor of Sociology Doctoral Candidate Kingston University University of Eastern Finland

McVeg*n: A critical analysis of trademarking Animal welfare legislation in Taiwan: Examining the vegetarianism problems from the perspective of law enforcement

12.50-1.50pm: Buffet Lunch in the Dining Hall

Chair: Simon Brooman Chair: Lena Heheman

1.50-3.50 1.50-2.30 Roundtable: Property, Personhood and Rights Edie Bowles Solicitor Carter Dillard Student Manager, UK Centre for Animal Law Animal Legal Defense Fund When is a law not a law? Professor David Favre Michigan State University College of Law 2.30-3.10 Nicholas Ceolin Professor Angela Fernandez External Affairs Project Manager University of Toronto World Animal Protection UK

Professor Teresa Giménez-Candela The Animal Protection Index: A global ranking of Autonomous University of Barcelona animal legislation and policy

Steve Wise 3.10-3.50 Nonhuman Rights Project Debbie Rook Principal Lecturer Northumbria Law School

For the love of Darcie: Recognising the human- companion animal relationship in housing law

3.50-4.20pm: Tea and Coffee in the Common Room

Chair: Dr Kenneth Valpey Chair: Rebecca Jenkins

4.20-5.00 4.20-5.00 Danielle Duffield Dr Joe Wills Masters Candidate Lecturer in Law Harvard Law School University of Leicester

Developing regulatory regimes for animal welfare The evolving legal status of non-human animals: offending: A case study from New Zealand What are the implications for human rights law?

Couratin Room Hope Room

5.00-5.40 5.00-5.40 Maria Helena Saari Professor Kathy Hessler Doctoral Candidate Clinical Professor and Director, Animal Law Clinic University of Oulu, Finland Lewis and Clark Law School

Humane education as a new didactic for animal Animal custody: Alaska and Illinois and beyond protection

5.40-6.20 5.40-6.20 Kate Barnekow Dr Charlotte E. Blattner Masters Candidate Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard Law School Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

Unanswered questions in the animal law and The Swiss animal protection lawyer protection fields

6.20 Closing Remarks by Professor Andrew Linzey 6.20 Closing Remarks by Clair Linzey

6.30pm: Summer School Ends