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SUMMARY:AALTRA Symposium 2024
DESCRIPTION:2024 AALTRA Symposium \n28-29 November 2024 | Deakin Waterfront Campus\, Geelong\, Victoria \nAALTRA is an association of animal law teachers and researchers dedicated to the advancement of animal law teaching\, research\, scholarship and reform in the Australasia region. Governed by an expert committee of experienced animal lawyers and academics\, AALTRA is focused on improving animal wellbeing through law\, policy and education. The association’s work involves contributing to law reform consultations\, hosting academic events\, and facilitating discussion and collaboration amongst the Australasian animal law community. \n  \nThe 2024 AALTRA Symposium is an opportunity for animal law teachers\, scholars\, practitioners and students to come together to share insights\, experiences and opportunities for reform. Across two half-days\, attendees will hear from a range of presenters and interact with each other at networking events.  \nThe 2024 Symposium will take place in-person only on 28-29 November at Deakin Waterfront Campus\, Geelong\, Victoria. \nPlease put these dates in your calendar. Registration details will be announced soon. \nCall for Papers \nWe are now inviting abstracts for papers to be presented at the conference.  \n The theme this year is a general one: papers relating to any aspect of contemporary animal law teaching\, research\, practice\, law reform or advocacy are welcome. \n Please submit your 200-250 word abstract together with a 100-word bio by 31 August 2024 to aaltra.association@gmail.com. \n There will also shortly be a call for paper submission for the AALTRA Research Prize 2024. The winner will be announced at the Symposium.  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://aaltra.org/event/aaltra-symposium-2024
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SUMMARY:Animal Law Conference 2022 - Animal Law in a Dis/Re-Connected World
DESCRIPTION:Co-hosted by the Australasian Animal Law Teachers’ and Researchers’ Association Inc (AALTRA) and the Centre for Resources\, Energy and Environmental Law\, the conference aims to identify and evaluate our various contact points with animals\, assessing positive and negative consequences against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. \n\n\nProgram\nThe conference will be held online and in person at the Melbourne Law School (MLS) at 185 Pelham St\, Carlton from 9:30am to 5pm on Monday 28th and Tuesday 29th November. The first day of the conference on Monday 28 November will focus on learning and teaching. The second day\, Tuesday 29 November will focus on research and law reform. \nWe have two exciting keynote speakers – Dr Rajesh Reddy\, Director of the Animal Law Program at Lewis and Clark Law School on the first day; and Professor Angela Fernandez of University of Toronto Law Faculty on the second day. \nMLS is close to the city (a couple of block from the Queen Victoria Market) and Lygon St\, Carlton. Vegan Lunch\, Morning and Afternoon Teas will be provided on each day\, and there is an option for a pay-for-yourself dinner on the evening of Monday 28th November.  We are grateful to Voiceless for sponsorship for lunch on the first day of the conference. \nHow to register\nYou can now register for the conference at the following link. Registrations are $100 for academics and others with secure employment; $30 for students and those who are unwaged or precariously employed; and $15 for online attendees (excluding booking fee). Fee waivers can be considered. \nCall for Papers\n(The call for papers is now closed)\nThe Australasian Animal Law Teachers’ and Researchers’ Association Inc (AALTRA) and the Centre for Resources\, Energy and Environmental Law (CREEL) at Melbourne Law School invite abstracts for the 2022 Animal Law Conference: Animal Law in a Dis/Re-Connected World. \nThe first day of the conference on Monday 28 November will focus on learning and teaching. The second day\, Tuesday 29 November will focus on research and law reform. \nAbstracts are due by Sunday 17 August.  \nSee the Call for Papers for conference details. Abstracts should be submitted through this online form. \nFor further information\, contact Professor Christine Parker at christine.parker@unimelb.edu.au. \n\n\nInaugural Animal Law Research Prize\nThe inaugural Animal Law Research Prize will also be announced at the conference.  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. \nPublished 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 between 1 January 2021 and 30 June 2022. \nThe 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. \nThe prize will be the amount of AUD500. The winner shall be announced at the AALTRA\, CREEL Animal Law Conference\, Animal Law in a Dis/Re-Connected World\, 28-29 November 2022. \nTo be considered\, the paper (in pdf format) should be emailed to Professor Christine Parker (at christine.parker@unimelb.edu.au) by midnight Sunday 16 October 2022. Please include in your email a clear statement that the paper is to be considered for the AALTRA Research Prize. \nApplications 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.
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SUMMARY:First General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:We are in the process of arranging the first annual general meeting of AALTRA (date to be confirmed). We have received the following nominations for office bearers (thank you to these colleagues): \nNick James: President \nSophie Riley: Vice President and Treasurer \nMeg Good: Secretary \nAshleigh Best: Committee Member \nMarcelo Rodriguez Ferrere: Committee Member \nJed Goodfellow: Committee Member \nChristine Parker: Committee Member \nWe shall advise details of the AGM shortly. In the meantime if anyone would like to nominate for Treasurer\, Sophie will withdraw her nomination for that position. \n  \nBIOGRAPHIES FOR NOMINEES \n PROFESSOR NICK JAMES (President) \nProfessor Nick James is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Law at Bond University. He is a former commercial lawyer and has been practising as an academic since 1996. He is passionate about legal education and the role of law schools in modern society. His areas of teaching expertise include law in context\, legal theory\, animal law\, business law\, and company law. He has won numerous awards for his teaching including a National Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning\, and he is the author of three textbooks: Business Law\, Critical Legal Thinking and The New Lawyer (with Rachael Field and Jackson Walkden-Brown). He has written numerous journal articles\, book chapters and conference papers in the areas of legal education\, critical legal theory\, and disruption of the legal services sector. \nProfessor James is Executive Director of the Bond University Centre for Professional Legal Education\, Executive Editor of the Legal Education Review\, Immediate Past Chair of the Australasian Law Academics Association (ALAA)\, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. \n  \nDR SOPHIE RILEY (Vice-President & Treasurer) \nSophie Riley is an academic at the University of Technology Sydney(UTS) where she teaches and researches animal law\, environmental law and environmental ethics. She is passionate about animal protection and inspiring the next generation of animal lawyers. \nSophie Sophie’s research and publications focus on animal protection\, including the protection of “pest” species\, and she is the lead editor of an Animal Law Case Book\, written by UTS students of Animal Law and Policy. The book is freely available online. https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/2015%20Final%20Version%20ANIMAL%20LAW%20CASE%20BOOK%201.pdf. Currently\, Sophie is finalising a book on the commodification of farm animals. \nSophie also occupies a number of University and community positions\, including: a legal researcher for the Centre for Compassionate Conservation at UTS; a member of GAL\, the Global Animal Law expert group https://www.globalanimallaw.org/foxes/index.html; a category C member (animal welfare) of the Animal Research Review Panel (ARRP)\, a government body that oversees Animal Ethics Committees in New South Wales; and\, a review editor for IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and \nEcosystem Services) for Global Thematic Assessment of Invasive Alien Species and Their      Control. Sophie also served for six years as a co-chair of the Teaching and Capacity Building Committee of the Legal Academy for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. \n  \nDR MEG GOOD (Secretary) \n Dr Meg Good is the Senior Program Manager and Legal Counsel at Voiceless\, originally joining the Voiceless Team in January 2017 as the Animal Law & Education Manager. She holds a PhD in law and has over ten years of tertiary teaching experience. In addition to her role with Voiceless\, Meg is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Tasmania\, co-ordinating their ‘Animal Law’ unit. \nMeg has held positions with various animal law organisations\, including the Animal Law Institute (former Director of Education)\, the Barristers Animal Welfare Panel (former National Co-Ordinator & Tasmanian Co-Ordinator) and the Australian Animal Protection Law Journal. She was the inaugural recipient of the RSPCA Australia Sybil Emslie Animal Law Scholarship. \nPrior to joining Voiceless\, Meg was a Voiceless Grant Recipient (to run Tasmania’s first animal law conference)\, member of the Voiceless Legal Advisory Council and a regular speaker in the Voiceless Animal Law Lecture Series. She has had a lifelong passion for animal protection\, and believes in the power of the law and education to help improve the welfare and protection of Australia’s animals. \n  \nASHLEIGH BEST (Committee Member) \nAshleigh is a PhD Candidate at Melbourne Law School and a graduate researcher within the Centre for Resources\, Energy and Environmental Law. Ashleigh’s doctoral research examines the legal status of animals in disasters\, marrying her long-standing interests in animal law\, environmental law and jurisprudence. Ashleigh is also a Teaching Fellow and an occasional Guest Lecturer at Melbourne Law School. \nAshleigh is currently a member of the Global Research Network’s Animals and Biodiversity Think Tank. She was previously the Vice Chair and Submissions Coordinator of the NSW Young Lawyers Animal Law Committee\, and has worked as a legal research assistant on animal law projects at UTS and Melbourne Law School. Ashleigh writes about animal law for academic and mainstream audiences\, and is a keen contributor of policy submissions to government inquiries. In 2020\, Ashleigh was the recipient of the RSPCA Australia Sybil Emslie Animal Law Scholarship. \nAshleigh holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication (Social Inquiry)\, a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours and University Medal) and a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice. Before commencing her PhD\, she worked as a lawyer in private practice at Allens\, and later at the NSW EPA. \n  \nMARCELO RODRIGUEZ FERRERE (Committee Member) \nMarcelo is a senior lecturer in Faculty of Law at the University of Otago\, and PhD candidate at the University of Alberta. His research and teaching interests included animals and the law and administrative law and he is an author of Wells on Animal Law in New Zealand. His current doctoral research focuses on the constitutionality of animal welfare enforcement in Canada and New Zealand. \n  \nDR JED GOODFELLOW (Committee Member) \nDr Jed Goodfellow  BA/LLB (Hons)\, GDLP\, PhD \nJed Goodfellow is an animal welfare lawyer and Senior Policy Officer at RSPCA Australia with a focus on legislative and regulatory issues affecting animal welfare. Jed completed his PhD (Macquarie) in animal welfare regulation in 2015 and has taught Macquarie University’s Animal Law course on an annual basis since 2012. Jed’s research examines governance structures for animal welfare policy and investigates the performance of government in developing and administering animal welfare law. His research has contributed to providing an empirical and analytical basis for law reform proposals intended to create new animal welfare governance models in Australia\, including through the establishment of independent statutory authorities for animal welfare at the state and federal level. Previously\, Jed practised as a prosecutor for RSPCA South Australia\, as a lawyer for a leading commercial law firm\, and has worked as an inspector for RSPCA Queensland. \n  \nPROFESSOR CHRISTINE PARKER (Committee Member) \nProfessor Christine Parker is a Professor of Law at University of Melbourne\, Australia where she teaches corporate social responsibility and business regulation\, legal ethics\, food law and policy\, and animals and the law. She has previously held positions at Griffith University\, University of New South Wales\, the Australian National University and Monash University. She holds a BA (Hons) and LLB (Hons) from The University of Queensland and a PhD from the Australian National University. \nChristine has a deep interest in both conceptualizing and communicating how law and regulation can help people\, animals and businesses live more sustainably and well within our ecological\, social and economic systems. Professor Parker has written\, researched and consulted widely on how and why business comply with legal\, social and environmental responsibilities\, and what difference regulatory enforcement makes. Her books include The Open Corporation (2002) on corporate social responsibility\, business compliance systems and democratic accountability of companies; Explaining Compliance (2011\, with Vibeke Nielsen)\, an edited collection of the leading practice and policy oriented empirical research on how and why businesses do and do not comply with the law. She is also the co-author of Inside Lawyers’ Ethics\, the influential textbook on lawyers’ professional conduct in social context. \nProfessor Parker’s current research focuses on the politics\, ethics and regulation of food and sustainable food systems\, and especially the use of animals in the food system. Her research on whether higher welfare labelling of animal food products makes any difference has been published in a range of law reviews. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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