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By the Book: A Conversation With Maneesha Deckha

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By the Book: A Conversation with Maneesha Deckha Author of Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders
Tuesday, March 15, 2022 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm
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Description:
Legal scholars have recently questioned the so-called great divide between human and nonhuman animals. In her important book, Maneesha Deckha discusses the inadequacies of both a property and a person-hood approach to determine the legal status of nonhuman animals. Deckha argues that person-hood is too anthropocentric and embedded in Western liberal humanist traditions to create changes for nonhuman animals. Marshaling feminist care theory, postcolonial insights, and critical animal studies, she calls for a new legal framework-legal beingness. Through beingness, Deckha seeks to get to a place where we "value animals not as humanity's Other but as beings of value who can exist outside of instrumental relationships with humans and other legal persons."
 
Speakers:
Maneesha Deckha, Professor and Landsdown Chair in Law, University of Victoria
Robyn S. Hederman, Co-Chair, Animal Law Committee

Sponsoring Committee:
Animal Law, Robyn Hederman and Rebecca Seltzer, Co-Chairs


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