Redefining Democracy: How Constitutional Law Could Embrace All Sentient Life
About this episode
This episode discusses how constitutional law could evolve to include all sentient beings, featuring insights from experts on a new book addressing this transformative idea.
In a groundbreaking episode of The Animal Law Podcast, we explored radical new concepts that could fundamentally transform how constitutional law treats animals. Host Mariann Sullivan welcomed Cambridge University’s Raffael Fasel and Queen Mary University’s John Adenitire to discuss their book “Animals and the Constitution: Towards Sentience-Based Constitutionalism” – a work that challenges centuries of legal tradition by proposing constitutional frameworks…
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