Animals in the Law and Humanities
Presents:
Jessica Eisen
University of Alberta
Feminist Animal Law: Analogy, Intersection, Method
Monday February 13, 2023
4pm - 5pm (EST time) on Zoom
https://zoom.us/j/95399357077
The present intervention will seek to typologize feminist elements within the field of animal law. The categories offered here aim to parse the many ways that animal law might be feminist—not by identifying ‘schools of thought’, but by identifying common threads. The labels offered in this typology accordingly affix not to scholars or projects, but rather to strategies, orientations, and analytic approaches that might emerge in isolation or alongside each other. They are not intended to compartmentalize scholarship, but rather to illuminate the diverse ways that animal law research has come to be informed by feminist jurisprudence. To this end, the present contribution will propose that there are three primary modes of feminist engagement in the field of animal law, and that these might be roughly described in terms of analogy, intersection, and method.
Jessica Eisen is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law. Her research interests include animals and the law, constitutional and comparative constitutional law, equality and antidiscrimination law, feminist legal theory, intergenerational justice, and law and social movements. Professor Eisen’s research has been published in the Journal of Law and Equality, Animal Law Review, Canadian Journal of Poverty Law, Transnational Legal Theory, Queen’s Law Journal, ICON: International Journal of Constitutional Law, University of British Columbia Law Review, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, and elsewhere. She has studied at Barnard College, Columbia University (BA, Political Science and Human Rights Studies, 2004); The University of Toronto Faculty of Law (JD, 2009); Osgoode Hall Law School (LLM, 2014); and Harvard Law School (SJD, 2019); and has worked at WeirFoulds LLP, the Ontario Ministry of Labour, and the Constitutional Law Branch of the Ministry of the Attorney General for Ontario.
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