2024 Call for AALTRA Animal Law Prize Nominations
AALTRA is now calling for nominations for its biennial Animal Law Research Prize. The prize will be awarded for the most outstanding contribution to the field of animal law by an Australasian scholar/student (whether by residence or birth) or whose work has a focus on these jurisdictions.
Published or unpublished papers may be submitted for the prize. In the case of published papers, the paper must have been published or accepted for publication after 1 July 2022.
The work must be in the broad field of ‘animal law’. As a guide this does not include work in which either animals or the law are purely incidental. The work must address the position or interests of animals in relation to the law.
The prize will be the amount of AUD500. The winner shall be announced at the AALTRA Animal Law Symposium, 28-29 November 2024, Deakin Waterfront Campus, Geelong, Victoria.
To be considered, the paper (in pdf format) should be emailed to Professor Christine Parker (at [email protected]) by midnight Sunday 13 October 2024. Please include in your email a clear statement that the paper is to be considered for the AALTRA Research Prize.
Applications may be made by either the author themselves or by another person on their behalf. The author’s permission can be evidenced by an email from the author confirming consent to the submission at the time of submission or upon request from the Prize Committee afterwards. The prize will be judged on the basis of the written paper alone. No narrative is required with the submission of the article.
Past recipients
2022: AALTRA awarded the 2022 research prize to Ashleigh P A Best, for her article ‘Material Vulnerabilities and Interspecies Relationalities: a Critical Appraisal of the Legal Status of Animals in Disasters’, Griffith Law Review, 31(2), 287–311. Ms Best was at the time of the prize a doctoral candidate at the University of Melbourne, and the judges thought her piece was a compelling piece of research on a unique an underexamined area of the law, which clearly showed the power of disasters to “cast new light on weaknesses in the law which operate to make corporeal beings vulnerable.