Marcelo Rodriguez Ferrere - Animal sentience and the law

Marcelo Rodriguez Ferrere is a senior lecturer at the University of Otago Faculty of Law, teaching public law, the law of torts and animals and the law. His research interests include the status of animals within the law. Ferrere completed his Master of Laws at the University of Toronto, he was a judges' clerk at the High Court of New Zealand and practiced as a solicitor at Chapman Tripp in Wellington. He will be speaking on the topic of 'animal sentience and the law' at the NZ Animal Law Association's first conference, on July 1 in Auckland. http://nzala.org/