Animal Attraction: What Animals Have to Offer Lawyers - And How Lawyers Can Benefit Animals

We will be joined for our first substantive speaker session by Mr Mike Radford OBE from the University of Aberdeen. Mike is a leader in the animal law field and was awarded an OBE in 2008 for services to animal welfare law. In 1992 Mike established the first course in animal welfare law to be offered by a law school in the UK and his book Animal Welfare Law in Britain: Regulation and Responsibility (2001) remains one of the most detailed books outlining animal welfare law in the UK. Mike has extensive experience of working with politicians, officials, NGOs, animal welfare scientists and veterinary surgeons in the development of policy and law. He has previously served as a trustee of the PDSA, a member of the RCVS Animal Welfare Science, Ethics, and Law Committee, the Companion Animal Welfare Council, the Dog Advisory Council, and was a founder member of the Animal Science, Ethics and Law Veterinary Association. Mike is presently a trustee of Dogs Trust, the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare, the Humane Slaughter Association, and the UK Centre for Animal Law.