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1 An Uncomfortable Conversation: Human Use of Animals: A Vulnerability and Human Condition Initiative & Feminism and Legal Theory Project Workshop [i] (2012)

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Friday-Saturday, March 3o-31, 2012
A Vulnerability and Human Condition Initiative & Femninism and Legal Theory Project Workshop

FRIDAY, MARCH 30
4:oo-6:30 P.M., LINE DRAWING:
CONCEPTIONS OF ANIMALS AND THEIR LEGAL STATUS
Are We Not Men? Drawing the Line Between Humans and
Animals Under Jewish Law
Mark Goldfeder, Emory University School of Law
Suffering Humanism
Sean Meighoo, Emory University Institute of Liberal Arts
Animal Rebukes of Human Abuses: A Study of a Medieval Case
Against Humankind
Jonathan Crane, Emory University Center for Ethics
Cows and Slaves, Forests and Trees: The Ir/relevance of
Categories
Laura Spitz and Andrea Girardin, Miller Thomson LLP and
McGill University

SATURDAY, MARCH 31
9:30-11:3o A.M., HUMAN-ANIMAL CONFLICT AND VULNERABILITY
Empathy with Animals: A Litmus Test for Human Legal
Personhood?
Carter Dillard, The Animal Legal Defense Fund
The Immorality of Biomedical Animal Experimentation
Mylan Engel Jr., Department of Philosophy, Northern Illinois
University
Farmed Animal Welfare: The Move from State to Federal
Regulation-A Good or Bad Development?
David Wolfson, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy

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12:45-3:15 P.M. INCONSISTENT APPROACHES TO
DOMESTIC ANIMALS BASED ON HUMAN ATTACHMENT
Wilbur the Pig Syndrome: Ethical Problems with the
Exceptional Animal
Alyce Miller, Department of English, Indiana University
Pets or Meat as Applied to Actual Pets and Other
Non-Human Animals
Mary Anne Case, University of Chicago Law School
From Pets to Pests: America's Confusion Related to
Our Relationship with Horses and How It Complicates
Reform
Holly Hazard, The Humane Society of the United States
Dangerous or Vulnerable? How Not to Regulate
Dangerous Dogs
Marie Fox, University of Birmingham
3:15-5:15 P.M. LESSONS FROM OTHER DISCIPLINES
ABOUT VULNERABILITY
The Least of These: Children, Animals, and Competition
for Compassion
Kirsten Widner, Emory University School of Law
Regarding Legal Personhood, Are Chimpanzees
(and Other Intelligent Animals) Children?
Richard Cupp, Pepperdine University School of Law
Rejecting Power and Love as Foundations of Our
Obligations to Domestic Animals: A Preliminary to
Progress
Katherine Wayne, Department of Philosophy, Queen's
University

Emory University Center for Ethics, Room 102, 1531 Dickey Drive, Atlanta

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