Animal Ethics Conference This Week in Utah
Placard from the 2010 Conference
(Rumor is a speaker from HSUS cancelled after being unwilling (either personally or at the direction of his employers) to share a speaking roster with people discussing illegal tactics.)
The full schedule is as follows:
Thursday, April 5
10–11:15 | Animal Law: In the Real World – In Education
Pamela Frasch, J.D.
Assistant Dean, Animal Law Program
Exe. Dir. of the CALS, Lewis and Clark Law School
11:30–12:45 | Muzzling a Movement
Dara Lovitz, J.D.
Author, Muzzling a Movement
1–2:15 | Speaker’s Lunch
4:00–5:15 | Learning from Difficult Cases: Tillikum v. Sea World
Kathy Hessler, J.D., LL.M.
Clinical Professor and Director, Animal Law Clinic
CALS, Lewis and Clark Law School
5:30–6:15 | Roundtable Discussion
Friday, April 6
10–10:50 | Animal Liberation Above the Law: In Defense of the Animal Liberation Front
Peter Young
Animal Liberation Frontline
11–11:50 | The Activist Attorney
Shannon Keith, Attorney
Founder, Animal Rescue, Media, and Education
12–12:50 | Speaker’s Lunch
1–1:50 | Cousins: Chimpanzees and the Law
Debra Durham, Ph.D.
Ethologist, Primatologist
2–2:50 | Jill Ryther, J.D.
3–3:50 | Roundtable Discussion
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“Rumor” has it that HSUS now merits zero- level credibility within the animal advocacy movement. May I suggest that donations to HSUS be diverted to more worthy animal organizations that embrace animal liberation.