Glad to see my review in @thetls.bsky.social of @lsiraganian.bsky.social‘s The Problem of Personhood. Unfortunately, it is not without its own problems: www.the-tls.com/philosophy/c...

Maybe I‘m missing something, but I was expecting Taylor Swift‘s wedding to be more festive. #TaylorSwift

Along with 42 animal protection groups and legal experts, we have written to the Welsh Government on a matter of legal urgency. 🧵

Only one day left to apply for our Centre's first Student Workshop in Animal Rights Law. 🗓️ This Workshop is an excellent opportunity for undergrad and postgrad students to expand their knowledge of animal rights law in an informal, supportive environment. (1/3)

🔉 The Beginning of Animal Welfare Laws ⚖️ In 1809, Lord Erskine proposed a law to prevent cruelty to animals, arguing that abusing animals was immoral and diminished human compassion. Learn more about the first animal welfare laws in season 1, episode 2 of the Animal Rights Tour 🎧 #Podcast

Take part in our inaugural Student Workshop in Animal Rights Law this September! With an emphasis on exchange, development, and conversation, this Workshop provides an excellent opportunity for undergraduate and postgraduate students to dive deeper into the field of animal rights law. (1/2)

The Hawaiʻi Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case on habeas corpus for non-humans (two zoo elephants), becoming the third US state high court in history to do so. Exciting! www.nonhumanrights.org/blog/hawai%C...

Shocking. And particularly worrying to think that, if Labour‘s mismanagement has already caused similar damage to UK universities, how much havoc will a Reform government wreak? www.democracynow.org/2026/6/12/tr...

Read for free on my Substack about Fritz, the male Asian elephant, who was strangled to death on this day in 1902, when he was with the Barnum & Bailey circus in Tours, France. kimstallwood.substack.com

Want to teach animal rights law? 🧑‍🏫 Don't miss your chance to learn from Dr Sean Butler (Fellow, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge) and Dr @raffaelfasel.bsky.social (Assistant Professor in Public Law, @cam.ac.uk; Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge) in this dynamic Law Lecturers' Workshop. (1/2)

Last week to send in your abstracts for this year's Animal Politics conference on Social Ties at University of Sheffield, 8-9th September! More details here philevents.org/event/show/1... Co-organisers @stevecooke.org @joshmilburn.bsky.social @drsvg.bsky.social and Alasdair Cochrane & Angie Pepper

An important law proposal. Domestic abuse is often compounded through companion animal abuse. It would also be desirable to add a requirement for victims‘ shelters to allow victims to bring their animals. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

'All of this is a colossal and entirely avoidable act of self-harm on the part of a country whose higher education sector has until recently been one of the few things it had going for it.‘ Hear hear.

Really excited to share this call for applications for our Centre‘s first Student Workshop. Please do share widely with your ugrad and postgrad students: www.animalrightslaw.org/student-work...

Tragic that Happy has had to die in a zoo rather than in a sanctuary, where she should have been moved to.

Anyone interested in teaching some animal rights law welcome to apply!

@jesuscollegecam.bsky.social used to have a college cat named Corrie. I say we need another college cat, with full dining rights (at High Table!).

A great opportunity for anyone interested in teaching an animal rights law course or module.

🚨Job alert🚨 Postdoc position: Political Theory and History of Ideas (100%, 3+2 years) @unigreifswald.bsky.social Deadline: 24.06.26 Happy to answer questions via email. Please share widely! www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...

📢🚨JOB KLAXON🚨📢 Next year I'll be on a @leverhulme.ac.uk Research Fellowship working on my monograph, so Newcastle has a 1yr fixed term vacancy to cover Legal Theory/Reasoning and Animal Law: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRM114/l... Niche - but happy to take any Qs people may have. Please share widely!

Has anyone considered offering free football tickets and designer glasses to Starmer to get him to resign? #UKelections

Keir Starmer seems intent on making the same mistake as Joe Biden, clinging to power until it is too late. #Labour #Reform

No 6382 in the Impeccable Judicial Reasoning series: it cannot be a rights violation because it happened many years ago (Lord Hoffmann, Bancoult 2).

I am all for non-majoritarian approaches to democracy, but what happened in the Lords today is both deeply undemocratic and illiberal. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fantastic podcast narrated by our Centre‘s very own Carly McCann and written by Co-Director Sean Butler.

Only JD would look at the current situation and think: "Let's lean more into the anti-Pope thing!" #JDVance www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

Incumbents JD might like to consider endorsing next: Netanyahu, Lukaschenko, Putin…

'The report … urges the government to introduce new measures to curb “the most damaging behaviours”.' Or, instead of only blaming the universities, how about making sure they are properly funded? Other Western European countries have little difficulty with this. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

I look forward to hosting Laura Gamboa (@notredame.bsky.social) on Wed 11th 5-6.30pm UK time for her online presentation on 'Judicial Resistance to Backsliding: The Politics of Constitutional Balancing in Latin America' in Dialogues on Democratic Resilience @cambridgelaw.bsky.social. Link below.

If you are free on Wednesday 11th March, do attend John Adenitire's and my (probably) last book event on Animals and the Constitution, organised by the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights Law and the Global Law at Reading Research Group. 2.30-4pm, link below!

Interested in developing your own animal rights law course in a free workshop? Apply to come to our Law Lecturers‘ Worshop in Oklahoma!

An excellent (and rare!) postdoc opportunity for people working on animals.

I am very much looking forward to talking to the brilliant @dorfonlaw.bsky.social next week in the Talking Animals series. Don‘t miss this free event!

Can‘t wait to read @casssunstein.bsky.social‘s first book-length treatment of animal rights. Highly anticipated!

Delighted to have received the first copies of my new book (co-edited with John Olusegun Adenitire) on fundamental rights for non-humans - covering animal rights, rights of nature, and AI rights. Many thanks to the wonderful team @hartpublishing.bsky.social and our excellent contributors!

I don't generally share petitions, but this one here is really worth signing. In short, Cambridge University’s planned transition to sustainable plant-based menus may be blocked due to a flawed analysis of data from a successful trial. www.change.org/p/urge-unive...

Having read the Supreme Court‘s decision, I find it poorly argued. According to the judges‘ impeccable logic, only dairy companies can legally use Oatly‘s 'POST MILK GENERATION‘ slogan. I struggle to see how this creates fair competition and protects consumers... www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Make sure not to miss Professor Jan-Werner Müller (@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social)'s talk in Dialogues on Democratic Resilience, a new online talk series @cambridgelaw.bsky.social. Professor Müller will speak on 'Why and How Do Autocrats Attack Academic Freedom?' on 19th February, 5-6.30pm (UK time).

Very much looking forward to hosting the fabulous Angela Fernandez (@utoronto.ca) in the Talking Animals series next week. Angela is currently a Visiting Fellow at our Centre @animalrightslaw.bsky.social.

If only animals could communicate.

Many thanks to @cam.ac.uk, @cambridgelaw.bsky.social, and my brilliant student Rowan for turning the spotlight on animal rights law. Really enjoyed the conversation and grateful for the opportunity to share @animalrightslaw.bsky.social's work with a wider audience. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QnI...

Very much looking forward to talking to Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka today about their new @oxfordunipress.bsky.social book 'Animals and the Right to Politics'.

Perhaps the government might consider funding universities instead of using them as marketing tools. #universities #government

'If a vegetarian hotdog is to be ruled out ... on the grounds that it contains no meat, the meat version should be ruled out on the grounds that it contains no dog'. Highly recommend @georgemonbiot.bsky.social's hilarious column on the livestock lobby's perverse efforts to stop vegan products.

John and I had a great conversation with the wonderful @jamiewoodhouse.bsky.social of @sentientism.bsky.social.

In case anyone has missed it, here is a recording of the last launch of Animals and the Constitution. Really enjoyed the discussion with @jeffsebo.bsky.social!

I am as concerned about authoritarian drift as the next person, but to suggest that a reduction of jury trials would move us towards authoritarianism is to cry wolf. Plenty jurisdictions have abolished jury trials, yet have no difficulty providing fair trials. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

Pleased to see my piece 'A Defence of the Species Membership Approach' published in @cambridgelaw.bsky.social's Research Paper Series. The piece was recently accepted for publication is Res Publica (forthcoming in 2026).

Looking forward to talking with Kristen Stilt @hls.harvard.edu in the Talking Animals, Law and Philosophy series later today (5pm).

Very much looking forward to hosting @marceldirsus.com tomorrow in the Dialogues on Democratic Resilience series @cambridgelaw.bsky.social. Marcel will be speaking on 'How Tyrants Fail'. You can join online for free by registering here: www.eventbrite.com/e/marcel-dir...