The animal protection movement
views itself as engaged in a fight against systemic oppression. Like other
civil rights movements, it seeks to expand the arc of the law's protections for
the subjugated and the disempowered. This panel of constitutional, criminal,
and animal law experts will address the successes and failures of the movement
as a civil rights initiative. Does animal protection provide a path towards
more general anti-oppression efforts, or is it replicating the problems of
race, gender, and power that characterize society more generally?
Business meeting at program conclusion.