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Associate Professor, University of Leicester. Research interests: animal rights law, human rights law, legal theory. 🌱
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An entire dozen of us to start! Let me know who I'm missing. go.bsky.app/KjXfbh6

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...

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.

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...

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

As much as I was disappointed with the recent Colorado Supreme Court ruling on animal rights, I have enormous respect for that institution for being one of the only one’s to actually hold Trump to account for his crimes. If only others had followed suit. www.reuters.com/world/us/wha...

Those who care about #AnimalRights should also note that the inspector general who was forcefully removed today was also involved with investigating #AnimalAbuse on farms & research labs, including Elon Musk’s gruesome experiments on monkeys for his Neurolink venture.

My review of Raffael Fasel's More Equal Than Others is now out. It's a great book, and warmly recommended. My main worry: his Species Membership Approach could legitimize arguments of the type "animals cannot bear duties and therefore should not hold rights". www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Europe has a message for Elmo.

Today the Colorado Supreme Court chose to perpetuate a clear injustice, stating that unless an individual is human they have no right to liberty. Read our statement on their opinion in our case to free five elephants held captive in the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo: www.nonhumanrights.org/blog/stateme...

The Colorado Supreme Court rejects a habeas corpus appeal to free elephants suffering chronic stress in captivity. It lazily regurgitates all the bad arguments that courts have used in the past to dismiss these lawsuits. Judgment here: www.coloradojudicial.gov/system/files... 🧵

A Wisconsin judge has appointed a special prosecutor to investigate & potentially prosecute criminal #animalcruelty at Ridglan Farms, one of the last 2 remaining large US breeders of dogs for animal experimentation. One more nail in the coffin of dog experimentation! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Social media platforms must not retreat from facts, says the Council of Europe's human rights commissioner 👇 🔗 www.coe.int/en/web/commi... If they do, they create a vacuum where disinformation thrives unchecked and the harm to democracy is deep. @coe.int #HumanRights #Democracy

The Humane League UK, represented by Advocates for Animals, filed a judicial review against the Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, challenging the legality of breeding fast-growing broiler chickens. Read more about the case: www.advocates-for-animals.com/post/the-kin...

For those considering #veganuary, a little plug for a piece I wrote about veganism, one of the best things in my life, last Earth Day. (It's a comic - goes down easy!) www.vox.com/climate/2413...

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