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Raffael Fasel is an Affiliated Lecturer at the Cambridge Law Faculty and a Research Fellow at the Schell Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School.
Raffael researches in constitutional law, human rights law, jurisprudence, comparative law, and animal rights law. In 2021, he was awarded a £440,000 research grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation for his research on constituent power, for which is also affiliated with the University of Zurich.
Previously, Raffael was a Teaching Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at Jesus College, Cambridge, a Fellow at LSE Law School, and a Visiting Scholar at NYU Law School where he was an Affiliate at the Center for Law & Philosophy. He completed his PhD in Law on the theory of human and animal rights at the University of Cambridge (Sidney Sussex College), with stints as a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School and the University of Oxford. His PhD was awarded a Yorke Prize by the Cambridge Law Faculty for a thesis of ‘exceptional quality’. He obtained an LLM from Yale Law School on a Fulbright scholarship, an MA in Philosophy from University College London, and holds a Bachelor of Law and a Master of Law degree from the University of Fribourg.
During his doctoral studies, Raffael co-founded the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law and currently serves as its Executive Director. Raffael is also an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.
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