Lecturers’ Workshops

The Law Lecturers’ Workshops are part of our Centre’s teaching outreach mission, which aims at giving interested Law lecturers the tools to teach an Animal Rights Law course at their home university. In the Workshops, we are sharing all the course materials from the Cambridge Animal Rights Law course, we discuss strategies of how to put together an Animal Rights Law syllabus, we look at what readings to include, as well as at how to get students involved beyond class participation.

The Workshops support a key goal of our Centre, which is to have courses in Animal Rights Law offered in 100 universities worldwide within 5 years. The Workshops are delivered by Dr Raffael Fasel and Dr Sean Butler, and managed by Teaching Network Manager Eva Bernet Kempers.

The Centre holds two Workshops every year, throughout the world. In 2024, there will be two Workshops: one from 1-5 July in Hyderabad (India) and one from 6-10 September in Barcelona (Spain).

Applications are open until 30th April for our 2024 Law Lecturers’ Workshop in Barcelona, Spain

This Workshop is in collaboration with the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain, and will be held there from 6-10 September 2024 (Thur-Tue) with Dr Carolina Leiva Ilabaca. You can find the full Call for Applications here.

The Workshop will be given in English by the Centre’s co-founders, Dr Sean Butler and Dr Raffael Fasel. In the Workshop, Drs Butler and Fasel will share all the course materials from their Cambridge University course, discuss strategies of how to put together an Animal Rights Law syllabus, and look at what readings to include and how to involve students. Participants will develop their own Animal Rights Law course outline during the Workshop. In addition, a session on ‘Pedagogy of Animal Rights Law’ will be taught by an educational expert to support interactive teaching methods.

The Workshop is open to law lecturers and professors, as well as PhD candidates, who expect to be in a position to offer an animal rights law course on a credit-basis or non-credit basis to students in the near future.

The fee for participation from Thursday to Tuesday is €250. This fee covers the full programme, lunch during workshop days, and 2 dinners.

If your university does not cover the fee for the Workshop and you want to apply for a hardship grant, please add a statement of max. 300 words explaining the reasons why you are in need of funding. We have a limited number of full grants available to cover the fee of the Workshop.

Preference will be given to candidates working at universities in Spain and Latin America, but applications from other candidates will also be considered. Up to 12 participants will be selected for the Workshop. The deadline for applications is 30th April 2024.

To apply, please send your CV and a statement of interest (max. 500 words) to Dr Eva Bernet Kempers (eva@animalrightslaw.org). In your statement of interest, please express your motivation and experience with animal rights law. Please also explain what your university affiliation is (if any) and whether, why, and where you expect to be able to offer your own course or teaching in the next 2 years.

Our Spain Law Lecturers' Workshop is made possible through the generous support of our donors: the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law & Policy and the Jeremy Coller Foundation.