Conference by Maneesha Deckha: “From Resource Object to Legal Subject: A Law-led Transition to Animal-Free Research”

Date: July 20th, 2026

Time: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Location: 4th space, Concordia University (1400 BLVD. Maisonneuve West). The conference will also be livestreamed on Youtube.

Description: In this talk, Maneesha Deckha will address the rising scientific and political momentum to finally replace the use of animals in laboratories with animal-free methods and underscore the importance of law to ensure a relatively swift rather than indefinite transition.

Biography : Maneesha Deckha is Professor and Lansdowne Chair in Law at the University of Victoria in British Columbia where she directs the Animals & Society Research Initiative. Her research expertise includes critical animal law, vegan ecofeminist theory, and postcolonial theory. She is the author of Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders and director of the open access documentary series, A Deeper Kindness: Youth Activism in Animal Law, available at https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/asri/animal-law-films/ and on YouTube: @ASRI-UVic.

Co-sponsored by Concordia’s Social Justice Centre, the Research Centre in Ethics (CRÉ), the Groupe de recherche en éthique animale et environnementale (GRÉEA), the Observatoire québécois en droit animalier (OQDA) and the Canadian Society for Critical Animal Studies (CCAS).