Human Rights vs Animal Rights?
- Conférence
- 7 mars 2022
- 15h-17h
La conférence de Saskia Stucki, Senior Research Fellow au Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law of Heidelberg, Germany, s’inscrit dans notre cycle annuel de trois conférences consacré aux Droits humains.
Human Rights Clashes
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This lecture untitled « Human Rights vs Animal Rights? A Philosophical Journey from Human Exceptionalism to Transspecies Universalism »
is organized as part of the annual cycle de conferences : Human Rights Clashes
Conveners and Discussants:
Ioannis Panoussis
Responsable scientifiqueDoyen de la Faculté de Droit
Maître de conférences en Droit International Public, Faculté de Droit, C3RD, Université Catholique de Lille, France
Co-director Master’s in Human Rights, Security and Development – FLD
Valentina Volpe
Responsable scientifiqueMaître de conférences en Droit International Public, Faculté de Droit, C3RD, Université Catholique de Lille, France
Co-director Master’s in Human Rights, Security and Development – FLD
Dr. Saskia Stucki
Senior Research FellowMax Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany
Dr Saskia Stucki is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. She is currently working on her Habilitation in the field of environmental law and climate mainstreaming. In 2018/19, she was a visiting researcher at the Harvard Law School, where she worked on her postdoctoral research project Trilogy on a Legal Theory of Animal Rights (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation). From 2012 to 2016, she was the coordinator of the doctoral programme “Law and Animals” at the University of Basel Law School. Saskia studied law at the University of Basel, where she also obtained her PhD in 2015. The resulting book on Fundamental Rights for Animals (Grundrechte für Tiere, Nomos 2016) received four awards, among them the biennial award of the Swiss Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Her research interests include animal rights, human rights, legal theory, international humanitarian law, environmental and climate change law.
Contact : Valentina Volpe, Associate professor of international Law : valentina.volpe@univ-catholille.fr