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Introduction to Animal Law
Provided By:
Center for Continuing Education (CCE)
Approved for CLE credit in:
AK, AZ, CA, IL, ME, MO, ND, NY, VA
This series of lectures on animal law engage how legal systems encounter the animals outside our own species. This first lecture in the series introduces the most basic topics that fall naturally under the general heading "animal law," including generally 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. It focuses on the most noteworthy changes now found in the substantive areas of tort law, wills and trusts, family law, and criminal law and the issue of standing, and summarizes 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. The lecture is prefaced by the background of the lecturer and some observations regarding language about animals, controversy about "animal rights," and the versatility of law in dealing with the lives outside our own species.
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The lecture often refers to a basic dualism found in American law (and many other legal systems) that is very significant in current discussions about how law impacts the beings outside our species-the concept legal person includes humans and some human enterprises, such as corporations, while the concept legal things includes all other living beings and inanimate objects.
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Paul Waldau
From 2004 through 2008, Paul was the Director of the Center for Animals and Public Policy at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, where he remains on the faculty. In addition, Paul directed the Center¿s Master of Science graduate program, which originated in 1995 and through 2006-2008 developed as the world¿s leading program in human-animal studies. 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's Degree from Stanford University in Religious Studies.
Paul is the author or editor of three books¿sole 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 An Elephant in the Room: The Science and Well-being of Elephants in Captivity, published by the Center for Animals and Public Policy in 2008.
Paul publishes widely, recent examples of which are the article in the prestigious Encyclopedia of Religion on "Animals" and a series of articles in the Journal of Veterinary Medical Education on ethics instruction in veterinary schools. Copies of various publications by Paul, as well as various interviews, can be accessed at www.paulwaldau.com and www.religionandanimals.org.
Paul has been teaching ethics courses at the veterinary school for ten years, and in 2008 was again named the Barker Lecturer in "Animal Law" at Harvard Law School, where he also taught in 2002 and 2006. He has also directed the Yale Law School "Animal Law Reading Group" (2007 and 2003), and also taught courses at Boston College Law School. Paul is again offering a lecture in the summer term for Yale¿s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, and he will later this year offer a course entitled "Religion and Animals" at Harvard. He is also the founder of the Animals and Religion Consultation at the American Academy of Religion and a consultant for many institutes and groups interested in animal protection issues.
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