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Animals in the Civil Code of Québec: subjects or objects of rights?

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Animals in the Civil Code of Québec: subjects or objects of rights?

University of Sherbrooke Faculty of Law, Room A7-235

Workshop with  professeures Valéry Giroux, professor at the University of Montréal Faculty of Law, and Alexandra Popovici, professor at the University of Sherbrooke Faculty of Law. 

Since Pythagoras’s antiquity, philosophers have questioned our moral obligations towards animals. Today, more and more activists and ethicists claim rights for sentient animals other than humans. What about jurists? Have they brought justice to animals? By stating that animal are not things, could it be that the Civil Code of Québec offers new tools to bring this justice forward?

Earlier Event: March 13
Withdrawal of neonatal intensive care: legal and ethical reflections based on the experience of a French unit and of an English unit
Later Event: May 23
Between choice, care and responsibility: How critical approaches to public health help us better understand breastfeeding issues?​