Michael Dorf in Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy

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

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

Professor Michael Dorf (Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law at Cornell Law School) will present "If We Didn’t Eat Them, They Wouldn’t Exist" on Tuesday, 10th March, 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 Michael Dorf: Michael C. Dorf has authored or co-authored well over one hundred scholarly articles and essays for law reviews, books, and peer-reviewed science and social science journals. He is the co-author (with Laurence H. Tribe) of On Reading the Constitution (Harvard University Press, 1991), the co-author (with Trevor Morrison) of The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Constitutional Law (Oxford University Press, 2010), the editor of Constitutional Law Stories (Foundation Press 2004, second edition 2009), the author of No Litmus Test: Law Versus Politics in the 21st Century (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), the co-author (with Sherry F. Colb) of Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights (Columbia University Press, 2016), and a co-editor of the 12th, 13th, and 14th editions of the Choper et al Constitutional Law casebook (West, 2015, 2019, 2023), the annual Supplement thereto, and the annual compact version of the casebook, Leading Cases. Professor Dorf is a member of an inter-disciplinary team at Cornell that conducted federal grant-funded research on the relative efficacy of various formats of cigarette and e-cigarette warnings. That research led to the publication of twelve scientific papers on which he is a co-author. Professor Dorf maintains an active pro bono practice that chiefly consists of writing amicus briefs in Supreme Court cases.

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