March 1: Wildlife as Property Owners: A New Conception of Animal Rights

Humankind coexists with every other living thing. People drink the same  water, breathe the same air, and share the same land as other animals.  Yet, property law reflects a general assumption that only people can own  land. 

The effects of this presumption are disastrous for wildlife and  humans alike.  The alarm  bells ringing about biodiversity loss are growing louder, and the  possibility of mass extinction is real. Anthropocentric property is a  key driver of biodiversity loss, a silent killer of species worldwide.  But as law and sustainability scholar Karen Bradshaw shows, if excluding  animals from a legal right to own land is causing their destruction,  extending the legal right to own property to wildlife may prove its  salvation. Wildlife as Property Owners advocates for folding  animals into our existing system of property law, giving them the  opportunity to own land just as humans do—to the betterment of all.
Title:
Wildlife as Property Owners: A New Conception of Animal Rights
Webinar Date+Time:
Monday, March 1, 2021

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Eastern Time
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Speakers:

• Karen Bradshaw is a Professor of Law and the Mary Sigler Fellow at Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. She is concurrently a Faculty Affiliate Scholar at the New York University School of Law Classical Liberal Institute and Senior Sustainability Scientist at the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University.
• Commentator/Moderator Holly Doremus is the James H. House and Hiram H. Hurd Professor of Environmental Regulation at the University of California, Berkeley, Co-Director of the Law of the Sea Institute, and Co-Faculty Director of the UC Berkeley Institute for Parks, People, and Biodiversity.

By:
Sponsored by the Coleman Burke Center for Environmental Law,  Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Credit:
Ohio: 1 hour of online CLE credit, pending approval
Other Jurisdictions: You may be able to self-apply to your credit-granting authority.
Cost:
Free and open to the public.

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