Animal Law News
Filming
Dr Robertson was recently interviewed by students from Sheffield University doing a documentary on animal welfare legislation. The interview covered issues of animal rights, the use of animals in agriculture and laboratories, and the potential problems in interpreting and applying concepts of...more >>
Article Added: 06/2007
University of Canterbury Summer School
Following the success of the first Animal Law course at the University of Canterbury, School of Law in Christchurch, New Zealand the course will be offered...more >>
Article Added: 06/2007
New Zealand's first course on Animal Law at Canterbury University
The idea of a course on Animal Law was introduced to the Dean of the Canterbury Law School early in 2005. As routinely happens with many new courses, it was decided to introduce the program during Summer School - to see how it would be received by the law students. The course attracted not 10,...more >>
Article Added: 06/2007
Animal-Law in the Press
To top it all off, on 1 February 2006, the Christchurch newspaper, The Press, ran a front page article about the course entitled "When a pet project has a degree of interest". In addition to the interest shown in the course, there was readers were intrigued about the wee dog sitting...more >>
Article Added: 06/2007
England’s Animal Welfare Act 2006
There is substantial confusion over the term “rights” in respect of animals. Contrary to certain perceptions, this Act does NOT endow animals with rights equivalent to human rights, but the new laws do obligate humans to provide animals in their care with certain welfare minimums....more >>
Article Added: 06/2007
Dr Robertson speaks at Harvard Law School
March 30 - April 1 2007 was an incredible turnout of lawyers, academics, Directors, students, CEO's, and a host of other key people in the field of animal law.
The Future of Animal Law Conference, sponsored by the Animal Legal Defense Fund and the Harvard Student Animal Legal Defense...more >>
Article Added: 06/2007
Burger King Shifts Policy on Animals
How much does the treatment of animals factor into your thinking when choosing a restaurant to patronize or food products to buy?
"Issues of animal welfare have a wide impact on society, industry, culture and economy" is a comment made frequently by animal welfare and law...more >>
Article Added: 04/2007
Rearing Tigers like Battery Hens? News from China
The underlying causes for a species becoming endangered can be broadly grouped into two catergories: (1) Over-hunting, and (2) Loss of habitat.
Proposed solutions to the overhunting part of this problem have included (1) efforts to impose a total ban on trade of certain animal products (...more >>
Article Added: 04/2007
Laying down the law on creatures great and small
The following article appeared in the February 2007 edition of "The Reporter" at Leeds University in England. As the report indicates, the course on Animal Law will be offered again in 2008. It is available to law and non-law students alike, and has application to a number of...more >>
Article Added: 04/2007
The Fabulous Animal Law Class at Leeds
This is a pic of some of the happy faces I had the pleasure to teach in the Animal Law paper at the Leeds Law School in England. It was the first time the module was offered, and was such a success that it is already booked to be offered again next year ... tests results have been great, and...more >>
Article Added: 03/2007