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The Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics (www.oxfordanimalethics.com) hosted an international conference on the Relationship between Animal Abuse and Human Violence at Keble College, Oxford University on 18th September 2007.
The conference attracted a large number of excellent speakers and researchers. From an animal law perspective, a number of papers were of particular interest including:

Is Human Rights Speciesist? by Professor Conor Gearty, Professor of Human Rights Law and Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, London School of Economics.

Implications for criminal law, sentencing policy and practice by Professor Martin Wasik, Professor of Criminal Justice at Keele University and a Crown Court Judge.

A legal duty to report suspected animal abuse - are veterinarians ready? by Dr Ian Robertson, Barrister, Veterinarian and Lecturer of animal law at Leeds University.

Offending patterns and criminal profiling of individuals who hunt with dogs by John Cooper, Barrister, member of the Bar Council and the Bar Human Rights Committee.