About the Authors

simon brooman is a senior lecturer in animal law at Liverpool John Moores University. He is a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a SEEDS award winner from the International Society of Animal Rights for his contributions to animal law in legal education. He is co-author of Law Relating to Animals (Cavendish, 1997) and has extensively published and delivered papers in animal law. He founded the United Kingdom Conference on Animal Law, Ethics and Policy. Email: s.d.brooman@livjm.ac.uk

grace clement, PhD, is professor of philosophy at Salisbury University in Maryland. She teaches ethics, animals and ethics, feminist philosophy, and political philosophy, and coaches the Salisbury University ethics bowl team. She is a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, and has written a number of articles about animal ethics and feminist ethics. Email: GACLEMENT@salisbury.edu

j. keri Cronin is associate dean (Research and Graduate Studies) in the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University, Canada. Her website is https://kericronin.com/. Email: keri.cronin@brocku.ca

elizabeth dale is a Master of Divinity student at the University of Divinity in Melbourne. She is an associate fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. Her research interests include animal theology, animals in literature, art and film, the aesthetics of animals, environmental theology, mysticism, and post-modern theology. Email: elizabeth5dale@hotmail.com

kit de vriese graduated at St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge (LL.M.) and is a legal intern at Lindeborg Counsellors at Law. Publications include: “Oblivion or Prosecution? The Search for the International Legal Framework on Individual Criminal Responsibility for Cultural Heritage Crimes in Armed Conflict” (Intersentia, 2019) and “The Application of Investment Treaties in Occupied or Annexed Territories and Frozen Conflicts” in S. Wuschka and T. Ackermann, Investments in Conflict Zones: The Role of International Investment Law in Armed Conflicts, ‘Frozen’ Conflicts, and Disputed Territories (forthcoming, Brill/Nijhoff, 2020). Email: devriesek@hotmail.com.

maria elena handtrack is a BA law student at St John’s College, University of Cambridge. Email: meh79@cam.ac.uk

macarena montes franceschini is a PhD candidate and researcher in training in the law department of Pompeu Fabra University and an assistant researcher at the UPF Centre for Animal Ethics. She has been awarded a scholarship as a researcher in training by the Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR). She is the author of the book Derecho Animal en Chile (Libromar, 2018). Research interests include: animal law and animal ethics. Email: macarena.montes@upf.edu

yoko kito, PhD, is associate professor at National Institute of Technology Nagano College. Her books include Conflict between Time and Space: Reconsideration of the Late Tillich’s Thoughts (Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2018), and Engineering Ethics (Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2018). Her areas of research are theology, religious philosophy, and applied ethics. Email: y_kito@nagano-nct.ac.jp

visa a.j. kurki (PhD Cantab, LL.M. Helsinki, LL.B. Åbo Akademi) is Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Helsinki. His 2017 PhD dissertation on legal personhood received the Yorke Prize (Law Faculty, University of Cambridge) and the Salje Medal for Best PhD in Arts and Social Sciences (Clare Hall, University of Cambridge). Books include A Theory of Legal Personhood (OUP 2019) and Legal Personhood: Animals, Artificial Intelligence and the Unborn (Springer 2017, co-edited with Tomasz Pietrzykowski). Research interests include legal personhood, rights theory, legal philosophy and animal law theory. Email: visa.kurki@helsinki.fi

robert patrick stone lazo is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Arizona and an associate fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. Research interests include: the philosophy of science, especially the philosophy of biology and the philosophy of cognitive science; animal ethics; and environmental ethics. Email: rpslazo@email.arizona.edu

marcello newall is an independent scholar. He gained BA degrees from the University of Pisa, and the University of Wales, a MA, Cum Laude from the University of Pisa, and a MLitt, with Distinction from the University of St Andrews. Research interests include: Christian theology, contemporary history, animal ethics, Jewish theology, factory farming, and Christian ethics...