Videos

“Animalization and Dehumanization Concerns: Another Psychological Barrier to Animal Law Reform,” Keynote Address by Maneesha Deckha to the 2023 European Animal Rights Law Conference

Presentation on “Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders” to the Law, Ethics, & Animals Program at Yale Law School, February 3, 2022.

Maneesha Deckha’s presentation on “Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders” in the Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series, Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law. January 26, 2021.

An interview with Maneesha Deckha at the 2020 Animal Legal and Policy Studies Summit held by the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law and Policy, Inc.

Saturday, October 26, 2019. Keynote Presentation by Maneesha Deckha, Professor, Landsowne Chair in Law, University of Victoria Faculty of Law. Introduction by Pamela Frasch, Associate Dean, Animal Law Program; Founder and Executive Director, Center for Animal Law Studies at Lewis & Clark Law School.

An interview with Maneesha Deckha at the 2019 Animal Legal and Policy Studies Summit held by the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law and Policy, Inc.

Lecture by Faculty of Law Professor Maneesha Deckha, Jan. 17, 2019.

Law, Animals and Culture: Exploring the Intersections Through Critically-Oriented and Interdisciplinary Research
Lecture by Faculty of Law Professor Maneesha Deckha, Nov. 5, 2018. Hosted by the Department of Anthropology Colloquium.

This week’s Defining HAS video series addition is by Maneesha Deckha, Professor of Law at the University of Victoria, who has been tasked with defining the concept of personhood. Maneesha Deckha is Professor and Lansdowne Chair in Law at the University of Victoria. Her research interests include critical animal studies, animal law, critical food studies, postcolonial theory, feminist theory, health law, and reproductive law and policy. Her scholarship has appeared in American Quarterly, Hypatia, Sexualities, the McGill Law Journal, and the Medical Law Review, among other venues, and has been supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She has held the Fulbright Visiting Chair in Law and Society at New York University.

Critical race theory and postcolonial feminism have highlighted how our identities form at the intersections of a multitude of social and biological factors, including race, class, culture, sexuality, gender, ability, and species.

Professor Maneesha Deckha studies animal law and is a professor at the University of Victoria. In this video she explains that the laws that we have regarding animals are outdated, and do not reflect modern cultural norms and values. She also describes her research into our lacking animal cruelty laws.