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Huge problems in the @slsauk.bsky.social conference Animal Law Stream... We've run out of chairs! What a problem to have for the first time we've ever had a dedicated Animal Law stream! #SLSA2025

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Here’s how I fear it will go down SCOTUS: issues vague order for Trump regime Trump regime: prevaricate, prevaricate… SCOTUS (eventually): by 5:4 ‘Trump regime’s prevarication is consistent with our previous order’ result: lawless rendition-to-a-foreign-torture-prison policy rolled out.

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Trump is a monster of the US Supreme Court’s creation. For years they’ve done everything within their power to place him above the law and now he’s plainly flouting their (half-hearted and hopeless) attempts to rein him in. Let’s never forget all those who’ve aided and abetted this criminal’s assent

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Crows in a lab were able to distinguish shapes that exhibited right angles, parallel lines, and symmetry, suggesting that, like humans, they have a special ability to perceive geometric regularity.

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The Trump regime's rendition of innocent people to a torture dungeon in El Salvador without due process is unspeakably barbaric. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QmW...

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1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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My new paper on "Animal Rights Before Legal Personhood" is recently out in the Cornell Law Review! This paper explores how rights in law probably have to precede "personhood," as the result in the Happy the elephant case shows us. Check it out if you're interested in animal legal protections.

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Bad day to post about anything besides everyone's tanking 401(k)s, but: I have an illustrated piece on the life of a dairy cow, finally out in the world! The dairy industry is brutal. There's really no good reason to mass produce another mammal for its maternal milk www.vox.com/future-perfe...

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Looking forward to discussing long-term strategies for animal freedom at #varc2025 this weekend with Birgitta Wahlberg and Steve Cooke!

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A former PhD student has just published this opinion piece for the conservation. Fascinating to hear about these efforts to get rights for nonhuman entities recognised at the local government level. theconversation.com/rivers-are-i...

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I am delighted to say that Sean Butler and I just signed the contract for the second edition of our Animal Rights Law textbook, to be published in 2027. We look forward to continuing our work with @hartpublishing.bsky.social!

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An emotional day - I can announce I'll be the first director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, supported by a £4m grant from the Jeremy Coller Foundation. Our mission: to develop better policies, laws and ways of caring for animals. (1/2) www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...

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Rosalind English discusses the Animal Sentience Act with Edie Bowles of the Animal Law Foundation and Dr Rachel Dunn of Leeds Beckett. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

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Save the dates for our fifth European #AnimalRightsLaw Conference! 💾 This Conference will be held from 4-6 September 2025 at Magdalene College, #Cambridge 👏 These dates include full programming on the 4th and 5th of Sept, with a half-day on the 6th Sept 🗓️ Many more details to come!

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Want to spend time doing research in Cambridge next spring? The Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law (@animalrightslaw.bsky.social) has released its call for applications for Visiting Researchers and Visiting Fellows. More information here: animalrightslaw.org/opportunities #animalrights

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Come and have a look at some of the amazing things from the archive I’ve been working on for the past few years. There are some proper treasures heading up to the exhibition in Birmingham in May.

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It sickens me when politicians talk about enacting 'tough decisions'. Targeting the unemployed, the sick, the disabled and people in extreme poverty receiving overseas aid rather than the wealthy and privileged is not a 'tough' choice, it's cowardly and unprincipled.

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Scientists: "After years of caging, drowning and incapacitating mice and rats and witnessing their mates try to help them, we still don't know if they have empathy". Yeah, well we sure know who doesn't have empathy. Sickening arrogance, stupidity and entitlement. riseforanimals.org/news/empathy/

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Chicken manure is classified as "industrial waste" rather than an "agricultural byproduct" by the High Court, meaning farmers are under obligations to dispose of it in environmentally safe ways. A big loss for the National Union of Farmers. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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What's the law go to do with animals? Everything! Find out why here. Animals and the Law: Readings on Animal Rights Law. Read my free Substack article. kimstallwood.substack.com

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EP 117: @marisul.bsky.social talks with UK lawyer Edie Bowles about 'The Case of the Frankenchicken' - a landmark decision that could change how we think about selective breeding and animal welfare law 🎙️ #AnimalLaw #AnimalRights

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I am honoured that my recent book 'More Equal Than Others: Humans and the Rights of Other Animals' (Oxford University Press 2024) has become the subject of a symposium in the International Association of Constitutional Law Blog. blog-iacl-aidc.org/more-than-eq...

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An entire dozen of us to start! Let me know who I'm missing. go.bsky.app/KjXfbh6

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I wonder if these scientists considered for 1 second that they’re participating in exactly the same evil - using violence against a less powerful being - as they’re purportedly studying? Utterly sickening. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Thread: In fall 2023, Rutgers Law School and the Cornell Law Review jointly hosted a symposium celebrating the life and work of Sherry F. Colb, who spent most of her extraordinary but too-short academic career as a faculty member at Rutgers and Cornell.

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NEW in Cornell Law Review: @marisul.bsky.social examines the necessity defense in animal rescue cases, weaving together legal theory and activist strategy. A landmark contribution to animal law scholarship. 📚 www.cornelllawreview.org/2025/02/11/d...

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How I think I look when teaching / How I actually look:

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