Visitor Programmes
The Centre operates Visiting Fellow and Visiting Researcher programmes to allow academics and practitioners to come to Cambridge to conduct their research, participate in events such as the Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series, as well as to collaborate informally with members of the Centre and the University more broadly.
A list of current and former Visiting Fellows and Visiting Researchers can be found at the bottom of this page. View a report of our 2025 Visiting Researcher programme here.
Visiting Researchers and Visiting Fellows 2027
The call for applications for the Visiting Researcher and Visiting Fellows programme 2027 will be released here in spring 2026. Keep an eye on our social media channels and subscribe to our newsletter to be the first to know about our Centre events.
Recent Visiting Fellows
Justin Marceau is a Professor of Law, the Brooks Institute Faculty Research Scholar of Animal Law and Policy, and the Faculty Director of the Animal Law Program at Sturm College of Law, University of Denver, USA. He co-founded and helps direct a first-of-its-kind law school clinic, the Animal Activist Legal Defense Project. He is the author of more than 40 academic articles and essays, and two textbooks. His first book, Beyond Cages (Cambridge University Press 2019) serves as one of the first extended critiques of carceral animal law. His most recent book, Truth and Transparency (Cambridge University Press 2023), was co-authored with Alan Chen, and was awarded the Tankard Prize.
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El Jones, Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics, Economics, and Canadian Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University, was a Visiting Researcher at our Centre in Lent 2024. Her research was centred on police dogs and connections between race, Black feminism, and animal oppression.
Serrin Rutledge-Prior, Research Fellow with the Australian National University’s Crawford School of Public Policy, was a Visiting Researcher at our Centre in Lent 2024. Her research focused on the relationship between animal rights and rights of nature.
Michaël Lessard, SJD student at the University of Toronto, visited our Centre in Lent 2023. His research was focused on the legal recognition of animal sociability and agency, and how this could complete the ongoing legal recognition of animal sentience.
Paulina Siemieniec, PhD Candidate in the Philosophy Department at Queen’s University, visited our Centre in Lent 2023. Her research dealt with the legal rights domesticated animals should have to Sexual and Reproductive Health, including the right to agency in sexual and reproductive decision-making processes.
Katharina Braun, PhD candidate in Law at Freie Universität Berlin, visited our Centre in Lent 2022. She worked on a project that analysed whether consent or a related concept can be employed to distinguish between permissible and impermissible human-animal interactions
Carolina Leiva Ilabaca, PhD candidate in Law at the University of Chile and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, was a Visitor to our Centre in Lent 2022. Her research examined different approaches to animal subjecthood.
Ankita Shanker, PhD in Law candidate at the University of Basel, was an externally-funded visitor to the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law from April-September 2021. During her stay, she identified the content, strength, and limits of fundamental animal rights and personhood, relying on foundational principles of fundamental rights law and legal theories.
Eva Bernet Kempers, PhD candidate at the University of Antwerp in Belgium, visited the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law in Lent 2021. Her research at the Centre focused on developing an alternative account of legal personhood that goes beyond the binary and court-based accounts that are dominant in the common law.
Joshua Jowitt, Lecturer in Law at Newcastle University, visited the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law in Lent 2021. During his stay at the Centre, Josh developed a natural law account of the normative foundations of legal personhood and explored its implications in the case of Happy the elephant.
Pablo Pérez Castelló, PhD candidate in Philosophy at Royal Holloway University of London, visited the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law in Lent 2021. His research explored how the constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia should change if wild animals were given a right to self-determination.
Nick Ampt, PhD candidate at the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, visited the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law in Lent 2020 as one of our two first Visiting Students. Nick pursued a research project dealing with different legal statuses that the law can award to animals and other beings.
Robyn Trigg, non-practising solicitor and full-time DPhil in Law student at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, visited the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law in Lent 2020 as one of our two first Visiting Students. Her research probed the dualisms on which current animal laws and animal rights proposals are based.
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Sergio Dellavalle is Professor of Public Law and State Theory at the University of Turin, Italy, and was the first Visiting Fellow at our Centre in Lent and Easter 2024. His research centred on this forthcoming book ‘A Republic of Fellow Sufferers: How to Grant Rights to Nature’, which explores different strategies to justify the attribution of rights to non-human natural entities.
Małgorzata Lubelska Sazanów is an Assistant Professor at the University of Silesia, Poland. She obtained her PhD degree in 2018, after having defended her thesis on the problem of animals as specific objects of obligations at the Universities of Silesia and Osnabrück, Germany. In 2018, she also obtained an LLM degree from the University of California, focusing on wildlife trade. Since then, she has published extensively in the field of animal law and animal ethics, and has received several awards, including a Max Planck Institute Fellowship, a DAAD Fellowship, and the Polish Science Foundation Award for the 100 best young Polish scientists.