Advisory Board
Our Advisory Board members advise the Centre’s Co-Directors on general matters affecting the Centre.
Dr Richard Ryder
Dr Richard Ryder read Experimental Psychology at Pembroke College, Cambridge, receiving a PhD in Political & Social Sciences. He was an RSPCA Trustee for 50 years, worked for the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and played a leading role in stopping the hunting of hounds. He wrote numerous books on animal protection and coined the terms ‘speciesism’ and ‘painism’, now in many dictionaries. He founded Eurogroup for Animals in Brussels, served as the Mellon Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Tulane University, and secured large RSPCA funding for the rapid development of Animal Welfare Science and for purchasing the first Sea Shepherd boat. He was involved in 56 Animal Welfare Legislative reforms in UK and EU, and served as President of the RSPCA from 2019-2023.
Professor Maneesha Deckha
Maneesha Deckha is Professor and Lansdowne Chair in Law at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. Her research expertise includes critical animal law, vegan ecofeminist theory, and postcolonial theory. She has held the Fulbright Visiting Chair in Law and Society at New York University and currently serves as Director of the Animals & Society Research Initiative at the University of Victoria as well as on the Editorial Boards of Social & Legal Studies, Politics and Animals, and Hypatia. Her book entitled Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2021 and her documentary, A Deeper Kindness: Youth Activism in Animal Law launched in October 2022. Professor Deckha is a graduate of McGill University, the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, and Columbia Law School.
Professor Justin Marceau
Justin Marceau is a Professor of Law and the Brooks Institute Faculty Research Scholar of Animal Law and Policy at Denver Sturm College of Law, where he is also the Faculty director of the Animal Law Program. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Justice for Animals Award and the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar’s Gideon Award. He is a member of the American Law Institute, was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in 2020 and UC Irvine in 2021, and works on several projects and initiatives with the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law and Policy. His research focuses on criminal law, animal law, and constitutional law. He is the author of more than 40 law review articles and essays, and two textbooks. His first book, Beyond Cages, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2019 and in 2022, he and Lori Gruen published the co-edited volume Carceral Logics (Cambridge University Press).
Dr Saskia Stucki
Saskia Stucki is the Director of the Center for Animal Rights and the Environment (CARE), Senior Lecturer at the Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (ZHAW), and a Senior Researcher at the University of Zürich. Previously, she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg) and Habilitation candidate at the University of Basel. She was also a visiting scholar at the Harvard Animal Law & Policy Program and the coordinator of the doctoral programme Law and Animals at the University of Basel Law School. She is the author of One Rights: Human and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene (Springer 2022) and Grundrechte für Tiere (Nomos 2016), and co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Global Animal Law. Her research interests include animal law, animal rights, human rights, legal theory, environmental law, climate mainstreaming, and good food governance.
