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39 Liverpool L. Rev. 1 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/lvplr39 and id is 1 raw text is: Liverpool Law Review (2018) 39:1-7 https://doi.org/l 0.1007/si 0991-018-9215-0 EDITORIAL CrossMark Animal Law in the United Kingdom: Academics, Conferences, A-Law and Student Engagement Simon Brooman Published online: 27 June 2018 © Springer Nature B.V. 2018 Conference on Animal Law, Ethics and Legal Education, Liverpool 2017 On September 5th 2017, a group of academics, Ph.D. and undergraduate students, and members of several animal welfare charities, gathered together in Liverpool to discuss Animal Law, Ethics and Legal Education. The venue was the School of Law at Liverpool John Moores University where I have been teaching Animal Law since September 1994. Organised in conjunction with the United Kingdom Centre for Animal Law (A-law) and the Liverpool Law Review, it brought to an end several years of pondering whether such a conference would attract enough speakers or del- egates. Would there be sufficient interest amongst academics in the United Kingdom to bring a critical mass of research material to the conference room? Was I a mem- ber of such a select (i.e. small) band of scholars that a small plate of sandwiches would suffice for lunch? I had some trepidation as to the reaction, or lack of it, I would encounter. In the event, numbers grew to around 80 delegates from academia and some of the leading charities active in both the United Kingdom and on the global animal welfare stage. Three speakers gave keynote papers to the conference. Mike Radford, reader in Animal Law from the University of Aberdeen led the way with a paper concerning the overall momentum of the development of Animal Law and how the subject has evolved from being one which attracted professional derision, to one that now has a significant impact on government policy regarding animal welfare. He described the conference as one of the most important meetings of animal lawyers and those concerned with animal welfare that had ever taken place in the United E Simon Brooman S.D.Brooman @ljmu.ac.uk School of Law, Liverpool John Moores University, Redmonds Building, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L3 5UG, UK Springer

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