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150 U.S. law schools and a dozen Canadian law schools now offer courses
or programming related to animal law, as do further law schools in Australia,
New Zealand, India and the United Kingdom. Similarly, over 200 Student
Animal Legal Defense Fund chapters have now been formed at law
schools worldwide.
MORE ABOUT PROFESSOR DECKHA
Professor Deckha’s research interests include health law and bioethics, critical
animal studies and animal law, feminist analysis of law, law and culture,
and law and society. Her work has been published in Canada and
internationally in legal and interdisciplinary venues including the McGill
Law Journal, Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Canadian Journal of Women and the
Law, Medical Law Review, Harvard Journal of Gender and Law, Hastings
Women’s Law Journal, UCLA Women’s Law Journal, Animal Law Review, Journal
of Animal Law and Ethics, Stanford Journal of Animal Law and Policy
and Unbound: The Harvard Journal of the Legal Left. Outside of law reviews,
she has been published in Hypatia, Sexualities, and Ethics & the Environment,
among other publications. She has also contributed to several anthologies
relating to feminism, cultural pluralism and health law and policy.
ENDNOTES
1. Maneesha Deckha, “Critical Animal Studies and
Animal Law” (2012) 18 Animal L 207, online:
<www.animallaw.info/sites/default/files/lralvol18_
2_p207/pdf>.
2. University of Victoria Faculty of Law, “Professors
Deckha and Parmar Awarded SSHRC Insight
Grants”, online: <www.uvic.ca/law/home/news/
current/professors-deckha-and-parmar-awardedsshrc
insight-grants.php>.
3. The Brooks Institute, “Major Initiatives – Brooks Animal
Studies Academic Network”, online: <thebrooksinstitute.
org/major-initiatives>.
4. Animals & Society Research Initiative, “About”,
online: <onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/asri/
about/>.