Animal Law and Ethics

Animal Law and Ethics Reflecting on European, American and Asian Concepts

Conference at the University of Zurich, Aula, KOL G-201

Date: July, 7 – 8 2012

Coordination

Dr. theol. Christoph Ammann, Deputy Head of the Institute of Social Ethics, Senior Research and Teaching Associate, Institute of Social Ethics, University of Zurich

Dr. iur. Julia Hänni, Greffier at the Swiss Federal Supreme Court, Global Justice Fellow at Yale University

Lic. iur. Daniela Kühne, Research and Teaching Associate, Faculty of Law, University of Zurich

Dr. iur. Margot Michel, Deputy Professor of the Chair of Private and Comparative Law, Senior Research and Teaching Associate, Faculty of Law, University of Zurich

Speakers

Dr. iur. Gieri Bolliger, Director of the Foundation for the Animal in the Law, Zurich

Prof. Dr. Tanja Domej, Professor of Civil Procedure, Enforcement and Insolvency Law, Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law, University of Zurich

Prof. Kathy Hessler, Clinical Professor of Law and Animal Law Clinic Director, Center for Animal Law Studies, Portland

Prof. David Favre, Professor of Law & the Nany Heathcote Professor of Property and Animal Law, Michigan State University

Prof. Pamela Frasch, Assistant Dean of the Animal Law Program & Executive Director of the Center for Animal Law Studies (CALS), Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon

Prof. Christine M. Korsgaard, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy, Director of Graduate Studies in Philosophy, Harvard University

Prof. Will Kymlicka, Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario

Prof. Dr. Eva Maria Maier, Professor of Legal Philosophy, University of Vienna

Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Marguénaud, Chair for Private Law, Director of the Revue Semestrielle de Droit Animalier – OMIJ, University of Limoges

Raj Panjwani, Senior Counsel, Supreme Court of India, New Delhi

Prof. Dr. Anne Peters, Professor of Public International Law and Swiss Constitutional Law, Dean of Research, University of Basel

Prof. Klaus Peter Rippe, Professor of Practical Philosophy, University of Education, Karlsruhe

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Beat Sitter-Liver, Professor emeritus of Practical Philosophy, University of Fribourg

Chairs

Dipl. iur. Frederik von Harbou, Trainee Lawyer in the district of the Superior Court of Justice, Berlin

Lic. iur. Michelle Richner, Research Associate, Foundation for the Animal in the Law, Zurich

Prof. Peter Sankoff, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta MLaw Saskia

Stucki, Research and Teaching Associate, Faculty of Law, University of Basel

Prof. Dr. Markus Wild, SNSF Professorship in Philosophy, University of Fribourg