Merris AMOS
Raffael Fasel has written a very well-researched and engaging book on a topic where there is often little agreement and, sadly, little progress in law and policy…
Alasdair COCHRANE
More Equal than Others is a tremendous contribution to the literature on human and animal rights: it is lucid, clear and beautifully argued. It offers a genuinely new approach to the award of fundamental rights – the Species Membership Approach (SMA) – that is extremely compelling…
Jonathan HERRING
If you could only save one in a fire, would you save your friend or your pet? A stranger or a cat? Jokes aside, the vast majority of people would say they would save a human, rather than a non-human animal…
Anne PHILLIPS
If you are an egalitarian, you will (should!) think of equality between humans as unconditional, applying to all regardless of wealth, rank, gender, race, ability, or behaviour. In truth, we rarely manage this…
Raffael FASEL
The book forming the subject of this IACL-AIDC Blog symposium is based on my PhD thesis at Cambridge, which I had the great fortune of writing under the supervision of Professor Nigel Simmonds…
Raffael FASEL
Having expressed my sincere gratitude to the respondents in the Introduction to this Symposium, I would like to start by addressing Alasdair Cochrane’s characteristically penetrating remarks…