Talking Animals, Law and Philosophy event: 'Global Animal Law and Global Warming'

Please join us for our next event in the Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series.

Speaker: Anne Peters, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg

About the speaker: Anne Peters is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany, a professor at the universities of Heidelberg, Freie Universität Berlin, Basel, as well as William Cook Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan. She was a member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law and served as a legal expert for the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia. Professor Peters was also a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin, and held visiting professorships at the universities of Beijing, Paris I, Paris II, and Sciences Po. She studied at the universities of Würzburg, Lausanne, Freiburg, and Harvard, and held the chair of public international law at the University of Basel from 2001 to 2013. She obtained her Habilitation qualification at the Christian Albrechts University Kiel on the basis of her Habilitation thesis ‘Elemente einer Theorie der Verfassung Europas’ (Elements of a Theory of the Constitution of Europe). Her current research interests relate to public international law, including its history, global animal law, global governance and global constitutionalism, and the status of humans in international law.

All events take place on Zoom from 5-6.30pm (UK time). They are free and open to all. For more information about the Talking Animals series and to register for the events, visit the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law website.