Sergio Dellavalle in Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy

Please join us for our next event in this term's Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series, organised by the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law. Sergio Dellavalle will join us to talk about "A Republic of Fellow Sufferers: Why and How We Should Grant Rights to Nature". The event will take place on 30th January 2024 from 5.00-6.30 pm (UK time) on Zoom. Sergio Dellavalle is Professor of Public Law and State Theory at The University of Turin (Italy), Department of Law, and Senior Research Affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (Germany). He has been Visiting Fellow at the Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, and at the Washington and Lee University (VA). He was Visiting Scholar at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law of the University of Cambridge, at Rutgers University, School of Law (NJ), and at Durham University, School of Law. He has also been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Frankfurt, Heidelberg and Tübingen (Germany), as well as the National University of Singapore and at the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies (London). He has extensively published in the fields of political and legal philosophy, as well as of international and constitutional law theory. Amongst his most recent publications are Paradigms of Social Order (Palgrave Macmillan 2021) and ‘Addressing Diversity in Post-unitary Theories of Order’, 40 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (2020). Here is an abstract of Professor Dellavalle's talk: Professor Dellavalle is presently writing a book with the title “A Republic of Fellow Sufferers: How to Grant Rights to Nature”, in which he explores the different strategies that have been developed to justify the attribution of rights to non-human natural entities as well as which entities are then to be regarded as rights holders according to the distinct approaches. In this presentation, he will talk about the research he is carrying out at the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law on whether a revised recognition-based theory of rights can be applied to sentient non-human animals as well as about which consequences this turn might have on both the understanding of the possible foundation of rights, in general, and on the project of extending moral and legal entitlements to non-human components of the natural world. This event is open to all. The Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series is made possible through generous sponsorship by the International Society for Animal Rights (ISAR). The work of the Centre is supported by the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law & Policy.