Fw: Animal Law Conference, San Diego, California, April 2-4, 2004

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" BEKOFF MARC " <Marc.Bekoff

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Thursday, March 18, 2004 10:05 PM

Animal Law Conference, San Diego, California, April 2-4, 2004

 

 

> Animals and the Global Community: Integrating Animal Welfare into the

> Legal Systems of the World

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> California Western School of Law

> San Diego, California

> United States

> April 2-4, 2004

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> Friday, April 2

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> 4:00 Meeting of Panelists * Hotel lobby * will visit Law School

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> 6:00 Social Hour * Grant Hotel

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> 7:00 Dinner * Keynote * Steve Wise * " Animals in our Human World "

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> Saturday, April 3

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> 8:30 Registration & Light Breakfast

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> 9:00 Welcome

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> 9:05 Animals in a Cultural Context

> Moderator * Professor Rebecca Huss

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> -PROFESSOR SONG WEI * (China) (Paper will be read)

> -PAUL WALDAU (US) * " World's Religions and Animals "

> -SHADRACK ARHIN (Ghana) * " African View of Animals "

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> 10:15 Animals and Their Intelligence

> Introduction by Sonia Waisman. * ALDF

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> -PROFESSOR MARC BEKOFF

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> 11:00 Break

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> 11:15 Controlling Pets in Urban Areas

> Moderator * Nancy Perry * HSUS

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> -ELENA MAROUEVA (Russia) * " Stray Animals in Russia "

> -SHADRACK ARHIN (Ghana) * " Stray and Feral Animals in Urban Areas "

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> 12:15 Lunch (provided)

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> Speaker - Neil Trent * Human Society International * A Global Agenda

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> 1:30 Animals and Science

> Moderator * Joyce Tischler * (ALDF)

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> -DR. RAY GREEK (US) * " Animals in Research "

> -KATRINA SHARMAN, (Australia) * " The Use of Animals in Scientific

> Research * An Australian Perspective "

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> 2:30 Agricultural Animals

> Moderator * Peter Stevenson * (CWF)

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> -PETER SANKOFF , (New Zealand) - " The New Zealand Experience with Farm

> Animals and Animal Welfare Legislation "

> -TOM GARRETT & DR. AGNIESZKA MACZEK, (US) - " The Polish Experience with

> Confinement Hog Farming "

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> 3:45 Break

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> 4:00 Wildlife

> Moderator * Kristina Hancock

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> -JILL ROBINSON , (Animal's Asia Foundation) * " Helping Bears and

> Dealing with the Chinese Government "

> -LINDA PAUL, (US) * " From the Waters of the Earth; Dolphins & Tropical

> Fish Trade "

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> 7:00 Dinner (Casa del Prada)

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> Speaker - David Favre * " Helping Animals in a Global Context "

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> Sunday, April 4

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> 8:30 Light Breakfast

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> 9:00 Domestic Law Development

> Moderator * Joe Lubinski (Animal Legal & Historical Web Center)

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> -Fernando Araujo- (Portugal) * " The Recent Development of Portuguese

> Law in the Field of Animal Rights "

> -Raj Panjwani- (India) * " Compassion and the Indian Judiciary "

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> 10:30 Break

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> 10:45 View From the European Union

> Moderator * Fernando Araujo (Portugal)

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> -MIKE RADFORD (UK) * " Introduction to the Puzzle of the EU "

> -PETER STEVENSON (UK) - " European Union law on the welfare of farm

> animals "

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> 12:00 Lunch Provided

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> 1:30 International Law

> Moderator * Linda Paul (Animal Web Center)

>

> -PETER STEVENSON * " The World Trade Organization Rules: A Legal

> Analysis of their Adverse Impact on Animal Welfare " (UK)

> -DAVID FAVRE * " CITES & IWC * A Dry Hole for Animals " (US)

> -PAUL WALDAU * " Great Apes Project "

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> 2:45 Break

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> 3:00 Roundtable: How to Make Legal Progress for Animals

> Moderator David Favre

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> -STEVE WISE

> -RAJ PANJWANI

> -PETER STEVENSON

> -JILL ROBINSON

> -MIKE RADFORD

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> 4:00 Final Comments & Closing of Conference

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