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Animals & Society Research Initiative (ASRI)

Academic programs & postings

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International

  • Animal Law Courses offered globally: database at
  • Degrees and Programs in Human-Animal Studies, including Animal Law. The “improves and expands knowledge about human-animal relationships.” Promotes human-animal-studies programs and scholarly research across universities and colleges.
  • , “dedicated to producing and disseminating outstanding, independent, academic, and public policy research and programming, and pursuing projects and initiatives focused on advancing law and policy pertaining to animals.”
  • : Grants, Fellowships, Festivals, Lectures
  • :
  • . Publishes peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal,
  • (OCAE) is an independent centre pioneering ethical perspectives on animals through academic research, teaching, and publication. OCAE comprises more than one hundred academic fellows drawn from the sciences and the humanities.

Canada

  • Ontario – Brock University: Concentration in (Sociology) 
  • Ontario – Queen’s University: . – Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law, and Ethics
  • Ontario – University of Ottawa:
  • Ontario – University of Toronto, Faculty of Law:
  • Ontario – University of Windsor: (Certificate and Minor Programs)

United States

  • California – University of California LA, School of Law:
  • Colorado – University of Denver, Sturm College of Law:
  • Connecticut – Wesleyan University:
  • Connecticut – Yale Law School: (LEAP)
  • Massachusetts – Harvard Law School:
  • New York – New York University: , and (CEAP)
  • Oregon – Lewis & Clark Law School: ,
  • Vermont – Vermont Law and Graduate School:

Australasia

  • University of Melbourne:
  • University of Sydney:
  • University of Wollongong:

United Kingdom

  • Edge Hill University Research Centre:
  • University of Cambridge:
  • University of Exeter:
  • University of Oxford: and Animals in Pandemics

European Union

  • FINLAND – University of Helsinki:
  • SPAIN – Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona:
  • SPAIN – Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona: : (Lobbying and Compassion. Interest groups, discourse and nonhuman animals in Spain)
  • SWEDEN – Lund University:
  • SWEDEN – University of Gothenburg: GU-CAS – – is an interdisciplinary platform for addressing human-animal relations and their ethical, social, and environmental ramifications.
  • SWITZERLAND – University of Zurich:

Resources

  • – Outreach and research in defense of animals. Includes videos in 120 languages, and YouTube courses in and .
  • (UK, launching 2022)
  • (US) – Style guidelines for media practitioners in the professions of journalism, entertainment media, advertising, and public relations.
  • – highlights the work of underrepresented voices in the animal ethics literature, with a special focus on early career researchers who are members of historically marginalized groups.
  • – The Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law & Policy
  • , a biennial conference (meets in odd-numbered years).
  • – “accredit and recognize sanctuaries and rescue centres, support them to achieve the highest Standards of Excellence, promote collaboration, and raise awareness of their work”
  • – (Gay Bradshaw, PhD, Executive Director) “Focuses on trans-species psychology, the theory and methods for the study and care of animal psychological well-being and multi-species cultures.”
  • – Steven Wise. “Humans are not the only animals entitled to recognition and protection of their fundamental rights.”
  • : a biennial conference for critical, anti-speciesist research in human-animal relations (meets in even-numbered years).
  • – Expanding Humanity’s Moral Circle
  • – Photojournalists including Jo-Anne McArthur. “As the world’s leading animal photojournalism agency, We Animals Media documents how animals are used for human purposes. We work with NGOs, media and advocates to tell animal stories and make change.”

Join Animal-related Listserves:

  • , H-Net’s network on the study of animals in human culture
  • , Overview of Animal Studies by discipline (H-Animal)

Academic Journals

  • , peer-reviewed, open-access journal published twice annually.
  • , a journal for the study of Philosophy and Animals. Peer-reviewed, open-access online journal published
  • , peer-reviewed, online journal, published twice annually at DePauw University
  • , an online, peer-reviewed Platinum open-access journal published at the University of Zurich, Center for Animal Law and Ethics
  • , Journal of Human-Animal Studies (Brill)

Teaching Resources

  • H-Animal