Associate Professor of Political Theory, University of Leicester
Dr. Steve Cooke completed his undergraduate degree in Politics at the Open University. He has a Master’s Degree in Human Rights and a PhD in Politics from the University of Manchester. In 2012 Dr. Cooke was awarded the Society for Applied Philosophy’s 30th Anniversary Research Fellowship to research the use of violence in defence of non-human animals and the environment. His main area of research focuses on duties to non-human animals and the ethical status of law-breaking and political protest carried out for their sakes.
He is the author of What Are Animal Rights For?, published in 2023 by Bristol University Press.
How the world might look if animals had legal rights
Oct 27, 2023 14:58 pm UTC| Life Law
Lets picture what our societies might look like if animals were granted rights against being killed, made to suffer or exploited for human gain. When activists argue for animal rights, they ask us to imagine a different...
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