@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...

Interested in teaching your own animal rights law course? Join our Law Lecturers‘ Workshop in Oklahoma!

Looking forward to discussing our book Animals and the Constitution: Towards Sentience-based Constitutionalism @nyu.edu on 3rd December at 5pm UK time / 12 noon ET. sites.google.com/nyu.edu/mind...

Really looking forward to talking to Professor Susan Stokes (University of Chicago) for the inaugural online event of the Dialogues in Democratic Resilience, organised in collaboration with the Centre for Public Law @cambridgelaw.bsky.social. www.eventbrite.com/e/1963109570...

Exciting to see the first print copies of the Spanish translation of our animal rights law textbook. Many thanks to Carolina Leiva Ilabaca for a brilliant job translating the book!

Delighted to see that @lsolum.bsky.social has recommended my latest paper on limited constituent power in his Legal Theory Blog. May the peer reviewers enjoy it just as much!

"[A] constitution is no guarantee against autocracy, as the US is discovering. But it makes the would-be despot’s job much harder, and equips us with the tools to push back." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Many thanks indeed to @casssunstein.bsky.social for a terrific lecture and for taking the time to chat with our students and colleagues over drinks and dinner!

Can't wait to hear the fabulous @casssunstein.bsky.social deliver the 2025 Animal Rights Law Lecture at Cambridge tomorrow @animalrightslaw.bsky.social @cambridgelaw.bsky.social!

Why write your own bills if you can outsource it to the opposition? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If you are in or around Cambridge on 15th October make sure not to miss our Centre‘s 2025 Annual Animal Rights Law Lecture held @cambridgelaw.bsky.social and delivered by the marvellous Cass Sunstein @casssunstein.bsky.social of @hls.harvard.edu.

I am deeply saddened by the passing of Conor Gearty. I first met Conor as a Law Fellow @lselaw.bsky.social where he went out of his way to make everyone feel welcome. His generosity of spirit and intellectual openness (he was a supporter of animal rights) have been a true source of inspiration.

Enjoying another great @animalrightslaw.bsky.social Law Lecturers‘ Workshop - where we teach how to teach animal rights law - this time in Cambridge itself @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social

What an excellent last day of the European Animal Rights Law Conference organised by @animalrightslaw.bsky.social, topped off with a PhD student workshop.

A second day full of inspiring presentations on the world‘s first pieces of animal rights legislation at our Cambridge Conference @animalrightslaw.bsky.social @magdalenecollege.bsky.social

The fifth European Animal Rights Law Conference organised by the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law @animalrightslaw.bsky.social is off to a great start!

All good things come in … twos! PsychologyToday @psychologytoday.com did another interview with me, this time on the need for constitutional reform for animals. Many thanks to Marc Bekoff! www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/anim...