Constitutional Animal Rights Law Workshop

Explore an emerging field. Build concrete skills. Learn from comparative practice. How can constitutional law be used to build stronger legal protection for animals? Can constitutional law help make animals’ interests and rights matter in practice? How have different jurisdictions used constitutional norms to protect animals? Through case studies from Brazil, South Africa, India, Finland, and Ecuador, and drawing on sentience-based constitutional theory, this workshop explores how constitutional animal rights law can move from legal theory to litigation, reform, and advocacy. This two-half-day online workshop offers a comparative and practice-oriented exploration of constitutional animal rights law, an emerging and still undertaught subfield of animal rights law. It is designed for participants who want to understand the field better and to think more practically about how constitutional ideas can be used in research, legal practice, policy work, advocacy, and reform efforts. Across two half-days, participants will move from key concepts and comparative case studies to questions of implementation and constitutional design, before applying these insights in a guided ‘mini-lab’. Whether you are newer to constitutional animal rights law or already working in law, litigation, policy, research, education, or advocacy, this workshop will help you build knowledge, compare legal systems, and strengthen your legal and strategic thinking.