About The Authors

ALICE DI CONCETTO is the executive director and chief legal adviser at the European Institute for Animal Law and Policy and a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She additionally is a lecturer in EU animal law and ethics at Sciences Po (Paris, France), and was previously a fellow in the Animal Law and Policy Program at Harvard Law School (2016–2018). Her publication record includes several law review articles in journals. She is also the author of the forthcoming book EU Animal Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025). Email: [email protected] FLETCHER is a doctoral candidate at Macquarie University. She completed her master of research degree with the thesis titled Against the Medicalization of Companion Animals: A Multispecies Ethnography of Care and Companionship. Katherine is a human-animal ethnographer with a special interest in medicalization and nonhuman social worlds. Email: [email protected] HAY completed his English DPhil at the University of Oxford in 2024. In 2024, he gave a paper entitled “The Word Made Flesh and the Flesh Made Word: Poetic Creation in Christopher Smart's Jubilate Agno” at the annual Oxford Animal Ethics Summer School. He was given a postgraduate research award from the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies for a paper on animal compassion in the poetry of Robert Burns in 2023. His research focuses on literature from the long eighteenth century, especially as it concerns the relationship between human and nonhuman animals. Email: [email protected] JAVANAUD is an associate fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She obtained her DPhil from the University of Oxford, where her research focused on Buddhist ethics and the concepts of agency and responsibility. She is primarily interested in issues in applied ethics, especially animal and environmental ethics. Her work has been published in the Journal of Animal Ethics, the Journal of Indian Philosophy, the Journal of Buddhist Ethics, Philosophy East and West, and Aeon magazine. Email: [email protected] ANN KAUL is a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoc Mobility Scholarship holder and an academic visitor at the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Science of the University of Edinburgh. She has studied Japanese studies, philosophy, and cultural anthropology at the University of Zurich and holds a PhD in Japanese philology. Her research interests include animal ethics, the human-animal relationship in premodern Japan, Andō Shōeki, and Neoconfucianism in Japan. Email: [email protected] MACE is a remote associate lecturer on the distance MSc in animal welfare, behaviour, ethics, and law at the University of Winchester. Alongside this, she regularly consults on animal welfare and ethics research through Mace Animal Welfare. Her research interests include ex-commercial hen care, chicken welfare, veganism, and voluntary/rights-based human population reduction. Email: [email protected] SCHAFFNER is an associate professor of law at the George Washington University Law School. Joan's scholarship focuses on animal law and ethics and most recently on the compassionate management of free-roaming cats. Email: [email protected] SELLNER is professor emeritus in theology and spirituality at St. Catherine University, St. Paul, Minnesota, where he taught undergraduate and graduate students for 35 years. He is the author of numerous articles and 16 books, the most recent are a memoir, Our Dog Red: A Small Token of Remembrance (Resource Publications, 2019), and Celtic Saints and Their Animal Friends: A Spiritual Kinship (Anamchara Books, 2023). Email: [email protected] SIEMIENIEC is a doctoral candidate in the Philosophy Department at Queen's University, working under the supervision of Will Kymlicka. Research interests include animal politics, animal law, disability theory, and care ethics. Email: [email protected] LUCILLE C. THIBODEAU, p.m., holds a PhD in comparative literature (English, French, and Medieval Latin literatures) from Harvard University. She is professor emerita of English and former president of Rivier University, where she is currently writer-in-residence. She is a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. Her most recent publication, “Saving Animals: A Long Moral Arc,” appeared in the Spring 2023 issue of the Journal of Animal Ethics. Her research interests include animal and environmental ethics, theological ethics, and British, French, and American poetry. Email: [email protected] ELLINOR WIDOLF is a member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness's Cow Protection and Agriculture Research and Development Group. She has completed postgraduate research at the University of Tasmania, Australia (doctor of philosophy, 2008) and at the University of New England, Australia (master of philosophy, 2023), with further research planned with James Cook University, Australia. Research interests include animal ethics, moral disengagement theory, and Vedic philosophy. Email: [email protected].