Angela Fernandez in Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy

The Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series is back with another exciting programme of distinguished speakers.

Join us for our second event in this season's programme, organised by the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law.

Professor Angela Fernandez (Professor and Director of the Animal Law Program at the Henry N.R. Jackman Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto with a cross-appointment in the Department of History) will deliver a talk titled “Grabbing at Freedom: Does an Escaped Animal Have a Right to Their Freedom?” on Wednesday, 18th February, 5-6.30pm (UK time) on Zoom.

Please note that the link to connect to this Zoom event will be sent 2 hours - 30 minutes before the start of the event.

This event is open to all and a recording will be made available on our website afterwards.

About Angela Fernandez: Angela Fernandez is a Professor and Director of the Animal Law Program at the Henry N.R. Jackman Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto with a cross-appointment in the Department of History. Her book Pierson v. Post, the Hunt for the Fox: Law and Professionalization in American Legal Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2018) is an in-depth study of an (in)famous first possession property case involving a fox. She has co-edited several books on legal history and written numerous book chapters and articles, including “Not Quite Property, Not Quite Persons: A ‘Quasi’ Approach for Nonhuman Animals” 5 Canadian Journal of Comparative and Contemporary Law (2019): 155-232. She has been organizing a monthly Working Group on Animals in the Law and Humanities since 2013, sits on the Advisory Board of the Global Journal of Animal Law, was the 2023 inaugural Vermont Law and Graduate School’s Distinguished Animal Law Scholar in the Animal Law & Policy Institute, and she has been a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics since 2018. She also oversees the production of the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights, Law & Policy’s Animal Law Digest: Canada Edition and the University of Toronto’s Animal Law Research Guide. From 2020-2023 she worked with Brooks and Animal Justice to organize the North American Animal Law Conference and the Canadian Animal Law Conference.

In addition to "Animals and the Law" (taught in the Fall of 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024), Professor Fernandez teaches Legal History. She is also the Chair of the Directed Research Program. She is interested in supervising students working on animal law and legal history topics at the JD and graduate level. Watch Professor Fernandez’s Video “Animals as Property, Quasi-Property or Quasi-Person” in the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights, Law & Policy Series “Animal Law Fundamentals”

For more information, see https://animalrightslaw.org/talkinganimals