Canadian Perspectives on Animals and the Law

Peter Sankoff is a Professor at the University of Alberta, Faculty of Law who specializes in animal law, criminal law, and the law of evidence. He is the author or editor of six books, including Animal Law in Australasia: A New Dialogue and Animal Law in Australasia: Continuing the Dialogue (Federation Press, 2013). Peter sits on the board of advisors of Animal Justice Canada and on the editorial board of the Journal of Animal Law and Natural Resources and the Global Journal of Animal Law.

Vaughan Black (LLB, Toronto; LLM, Berkeley) is a professor at the Schulich School of Law, where he has taught for more than thirty years. He has also been the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Transborder Studies at Arizona State University, a visiting scholar at the UCLA School of Law, and a lecturer at The Hague Academy of International Law. He has served as editor-in-chief of the Dalhousie Law Journal and associate editor of the Canadian Business Law Journal.

Katie Sykes (JD, Toronto; LLM, Harvard; LLM, Dalhousie), assistant professor at Faculty of Law, Thompson Rivers University; JSD candidate, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. From 2002-03, served as law clerk to the Hon Justice LeBel of the SCC; from 2004-10 was an associate in the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.