🚨 Registration Open: Litigating & Legislating for Animal Rights Seminar #3 22 October 2025, 5:00 PM CEST 🎙 Christopher Berry, ED of the Nonhuman Rights Project 🎤 Moderator: Dr Anna Caramuru P. Aubert 💡 The Judicial Psychology of Paradigm Shifts in Animal Rights Cases 🎟️ Register: luma.com/7zvblvhj

🦉 Bibliography Recommendation 📚 Should animal rights activism move beyond protests and boycotts into deliberative dialogue? 🤔🐾

🦉 Key Concepts for Animal Rights Law 🐾 🤔 Not all places that house animals are the same. The word 'sanctuary' is often misused, and in animal rights law, it carries a precise ethical meaning.

🎓 Registration closes on 10 October for the CIARL live course starting on 25 October 2025! 🌐 Thanks to Voiceless, we are offering scholarships to ensure everyone, everywhere can learn animal rights law and gain advocacy skills to create real impact for animals. 🔗 icare-animals.org/ciarl-course

🦉 Bibliography recommendation 📚 Exploring how different political traditions approach animal rights 🫎🐕🐓 can help us understand both opportunities and challenges💡 in achieving legal protection for animals.

🦉 AI and Animals 🤖 Generative AI is part of our daily lives, yet its impact on animals is often ignored. Research shows that tools such as DALL·E present an idealised view of farming, with cows on green fields and pigs in the mud, even when realistic depictions are requested. 🌱

🎓 Meet more of the world-leading scholars teaching the CIARL Course! The 2nd live CIARL course runs from 25 October 2025 to 18 January 2026. ⚖️📚 📝 Registration closes 10 October 🎓 Scholarships available Register: icare-animals.org/ciarl-course

🦉 Bibliography Recommendation 📚 Urban animals are often invisible to human citizens and animal rights scholars 🐀🕊️, but they suddenly become visible when labelled as pests or problems 🚫. How does this invisibility turn into a violent response?

🎓 Early Bird Registration Ends Soon! The early bird fee for our CIARL live course ends on 15 Sept. 🎟️ Scholarships & Regular Registration: until 10 Oct 🧑‍🏫 Live Lectures: 25 Oct–20 Dec 2025 🧑‍⚖️ Speed Moot & Evaluations: Jan 2026 🔗 Register: icare-animals.org/ciarl-course ##AnimalRights #AnimalLaw

📚 Bibliography Recommendation 🐾 If you’ve ever faced the heartbreaking decision of euthanasia for a beloved companion animal, you know how complex it can be. 💔

🦉 Legal News About Animals ⚖️ 🇨🇴 On 4 September 2025, Colombia’s Constitutional Court unanimously upheld the 'No más olé' law 2385 prohibiting bullfighting nationwide after a three-year transition period ending in July 2027 🐂

🦉 Ready to dive into the future of animal rights law? Registration for the 2nd live edition of the CIARL Course is open, and our lecturers are some of the world’s leading scholars in animal rights law & ethics. 📅 Early-bird fee until 15 Sept | 📝 Register before 10 Oct | 🎓 Scholarships available

🤖 AI and Animals 🦉 🐘 Human-elephant violent conflicts are pervasive in India and across Asia, hindering conservation efforts. A group of researchers installed AI-assisted cameras 📹 to prevent conflicts, providing real-time alerts to humans. 🚨

🦉 Bibliography Recommendation 📚 Xenotransplantation is the practice of using organs from animals such as pigs for human transplants. 🐷➡️🧑‍⚕️ Despite occasional headlines about 'successes', no human has survived more than a short time after these procedures.

🦉 Key Concepts for Animal Rights Law ⚖️ Anthropocentrism places humans at the centre of moral and environmental concern. ⭕👤

Have you seen animals on the ballot?🗳️ Around the world, animal rights issues have been decided through public votes, referenda, citizen initiatives, and formal petitions. Yet, a comprehensive global database of these initiatives doesn’t exist, and we believe this strategic tool is often overlooked.

🦉 Bibliography Recommendation 📚 Why do politicians avoid talking about meat even when discussing climate change and environmental policies? 🌍🥩

🦉 Legal News about Animals ⚖️ 🇦🇷 Argentina has once again recognised animals as subjects of rights. 🐕 But this time in a moral damages lawsuit, and not in an animal cruelty or habeas corpus case.

🌱 New Blog Series: Mental Health & Animal Advocacy 🌱 We’re thrilled to launch ICARE’s new blog series 📖 exploring the vital intersection between mental health and animal advocacy — a space too often overlooked in our movement.💡

📣 Registration is open for the 2nd Live CIARL Course! 🎓 Running from late October 2025 to mid-January 2026, this course combines weekly live lectures, practical assignments, and an online speed moot experience to equip participants with strong legal knowledge and advocacy skills. 📚⚖️

🦉 AI and Animals 🤖 👩‍🏫 Some scholars are raising concerns about the possibility of sentient AI and even proposing AI welfare officers. But a recent paper by John Dorsch and colleagues suggests a different lens: the Precarity Guideline.💡

Bibliography Recommendation📚 ⚖️Considering a statute as 'symbolic' often carries a negative connotation. Yet, symbolic legislation tends to proliferate where the law can do little compared with social realities. This is why many animal welfare or anti-cruelty regulations may be considered symbolic.

📚 Key Concepts for Animal Rights Law🦉 🤔 How do we know if someone is sentient? Scientists and philosophers agree that sentience means the ability to have conscious experiences that feel good 👍 or bad 👎. But how do we measure it in beings who cannot speak for themselves? 🐾

🦉 Bibliography Recommendation 📚 🇧🇷 Did you know that Brazil recognises animals as subjects of (simple) rights?

🦉 Legal News About Animals 📰 🇫🇷 France : Duplomb Law: A green light for the intensification of factory farming ⚠️

🤖 AI and Animals 🦉 What if we could truly understand what animals are saying? 🗣️ AI is making this possible, with a lot of good news in the case of whales! 🐋 One groundbreaking project, the Cetacean Translation Initiative (CETI), is using AI to decode whales' communication.

📚 Bibliography Recommendation 🕌🐾 Have you ever thought about the intersection between Islamic ethics and animal rights? 🌱 🔍 Most conversations stop at halal slaughter. But there’s so much more to explore. This eye-opening article by Mohamed Mukhtar and Mary-Justine Todd invites us to do that!

🦉 Today marks 1 year since ICARE officially registered as a non-profit! 🎉

🔑 Key Concepts for Animal Rights Law ⚖️ What is sentience, and why is it so important for animal rights law? ⚛️ Sentience is often defined as the capacity to have conscious experiences that feel good or bad.

📖 Bibliography Recommendation🦉 Do you live with animals? Do you consider them as members of your family? 🐕🐈‍⬛ 👉 You are not alone. Psychology and sociology demonstrate that animals play family roles in multispecies families. But, what about the law? ⚖️🧑‍⚖️

🦉 AI and Animals 🤖 Do you use AI-generated images to do advocacy for animals? 🐶📸 Do you avoid using AI at all because you are concerned with trust issues? ⚖️🤔 ❓There are no easy answers to determining when it is right to use AI for advocacy.

📚 Bibliography Recommendation🦉 🐴 Farmed animal sanctuaries are essential because they provide rescued animals a new opportunity to live and thrive. But is that all?

🦉 Key Concepts for Animal Rights Law 📚 🔬 What Is Animal Welfare Science?

🦉 Advance your understanding of animal rights law — at your own pace 💻 🎓 The CIARL On-Demand Course is open for registration!

📚 Bibliography Recommendation 🦉 What if the judge ate animals for breakfast? 🐣🥛🐷 ⚖️ Matthew Liebman’s powerful paper 'Who The Judge Ate For Breakfast' pushes us to question the limits of creativity in animal law, when judges themselves are not free from speciesist bias.

🐂 Bullock-cart racing is back in Punjab 🇮🇳 On 11 July 2025, the Punjab Assembly passed a law reinstating bullock-cart racing—joining other Indian states in allowing animals to be used for sport, so long as it's 'regulated', 11 years after India’s Supreme Court ruled the practice unlawful.🧑‍⚖️

🤖 AI and Animals 🦉 In a world where AI pet robots are becoming a reality, could this be good news for real animals? 🐶🐱📘 Inspired by 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?', this reflection explores a future where robotic pets might replace the exploitation of animals kept as companions. 🐾

📚 Bibliography Recommendation 🦉 Looking for a solid legal foundation for animal rights? ⚖️🐦‍⬛

🦉 Key Concepts for Animal Rights Law ⚖️ Today's post on key concepts in animal rights law analyses what we owe to wild animals. 🤔

ICARE’s summer course has officially launched! 🦉 33 participants from 26 countries joined us for 8 weeks of learning & discussion on animal rights. 🎓 📖 Our first lecture covered Singer’s & Regan’s approaches to animal ethics—sparking fascinating debate. Learn more: icare-animals.org 🌐

📚 Reading recommendation 🦉 War not only destroys human lives. Animals are the invisible victims of armed conflicts. 🐴🐕🐘💣 They’re bombed, abandoned, starved, exploited, and looted.

🤖 AI and Animals 🐮 🤔 Did you know AI is increasingly used in animal farming? While technology in agriculture isn't new, AI is enhancing Precision Livestock Farming (PLF).🐷 PLF uses sensors to monitor animals, and AI processes this data to instruct actions such as feeding.🐣

🎓 Final call: ICARE’s summer course, Bridging Animal Rights Theory and Practice, starts on 2 July. 📚 This course digs into the philosophical foundations of legal arguments for animals — and how to use them in real-world advocacy. Register by 30 June 👉 icare-animals.org/summer-course

📚 Animal Rights Reading 🦉 Have you ever wondered if Nature can truly hold rights? 🌳⛰️🌊 Check out Visa Kurki’s thought-provoking work: “Can Nature Hold Rights? It’s Not as Easy as You Think”.

🦉 Key Concepts for Animal Rights Law ⚖️ 🤔 What do we mean when we talk about legal personhood for animals? In law, personhood is not limited to humans. Corporations, municipalities—even rivers—are already recognised as legal persons. So... why not animals? 🐘🐒🐕

⚖️ On 1 July 2025, join the conference "Access to Justice for Animals in Europe: Towards an ‘Aarhus Convention’ for Animals?", hosted by the Max Planck Institute & organised by AJA. ICARE’s ED will moderate Roundtable 4. 🔗 Register: events.mpipriv.de/b?p=access_t... 📍 Attend online or in person

Whether you’re an advocate, academic, or student, this summer course will strengthen your understanding of animal rights law and ethics — and give you tools to turn theory into practice. ⚖️ Taught live by Dr Paulina Siemieniec. 🎓 🌐 Registration closes 30 June: icare-animals.org/summer-course

📚 Bibliography Recommendation 🦉 Today, we're recommending an essential reading for anyone working on animal ethics or advocacy: "From Here to Utopia: Theories of Change in Nonideal Animal Ethics" by Nico Dario Müller. 🐾🌱

🦉 Join ICARE on 23 June at 5 PM CEST for “Strategic Litigation for Chickens & Hens” ⚖️🐔 with Edie Bowles & Kathryn Evans. 🧑‍⚖️🌱 🔗 Register: lu.ma/p2rl9rza More info: icare-animals.org/seminar-series #AnimalLaw #AnimalRights #AnimalRightsLaw #FarmedAnimals #AnimalAdvocacy #Frankenchickens

ICARE joins 155+ orgs 🌐 urging the UN to recognise aquatic animals 🐟🦀🐬 as sentient beings—and include their welfare in ocean governance.⚖️ Ocean sustainability = protecting those who live in it.🐙🌊 📄 Read the open letter: drive.google.com/file/d/1QXOv... #UNOC3 #AquaticAnimalWelfare #OneWelfare