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La Faculté de Droit (FLD) de l’Université Catholique de Lille lance un Diplôme Universitaire dédié au droit animalier pour la rentrée 2024

By July 30, 2024August 27th, 2024No Comments

Document type : article published in Savoir Animal

Author: Matthieu Meerpoël

Preview: From the beginning of the coming academic year, the Faculty of Law at the Catholic University of Lille (FLD) will welcome students for a University Diploma (UD) in Animal Law. Led by Matthieu Meerpoël, a lecturer and researcher in law at the FLD, this course addresses the current debate on animal welfare and rights and the position of animals in human society. This diploma is intende for both law students and professionals with legal experience who wish to deepen their knowledge in the field. Since launching its university diploma in environmental law in 2023, the FLD is continuing to enrich its teaching offer to meet the challenges of the future. With 192 hours of classes (including 144 compulsory hours), this UD is the most comprehensive in France on the subject of animal law and the first UD to specialize in animal law in the Hauts-de-France region.
Objectives: to train law students to specialise in animal law and to allow professional lawyers to deepen their knowledge or develop a specialism. The UD is open to all law students and professionals from all backgrounds (lawyers, veterinary services, local civil servants, customs officers, national police officers, and Ministry of Justice and Prefecture employees) with legal experience. (…)
What is on the syllabus?:
– an introductory unit to the law including a basic science module on the status of animals (biological and psychological definition).
– an in-depth unit on the fundamentals of animal law, (history of animal law, animal ethics, information on those who play a part in animal law). The UD also covers the primary areas of the law and the place of animals in each major legal category and according to their environment (domestic, zoos, farming, etc.).
– a further in-depth unit on the areas of animal law with several options (equine law, legal personality of animals, veterinary law, animal criminology, etc.).
– a practical module on animal law: animal law clinic, animal law factory with lecturers from the associated fields and a module on rewriting the law, looking at lobbying by associations.
With a hybrid format and flexible schedules, this course is tailored to the pursuit of professional activities or studies, for those who wish to develop national and international (French-speaking) influence.
Among the speakers are professors, associations, and lawyers including Graziella Dode, a lawyer specializing in animal law at the Lille Bar, who achieved the recognition of animal damage by the Lille courts.

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