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“A Law-Led Transition to Animal-Free Research” @ SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation
17 h 00 – 19 h 00
Lecture by Maneesha Dekha (Postcolonial animal law scholar, author of Animals as Legal Beings and Professor at the University of Victoria, in British Columbia)
On Monday, July 20, 2026, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Maneesha Dekha (University of Victoria) will give a lecture titled “From Resource Object to Legal Subject: A Law-Led Transition to Animal-Free Research.” The lecture will take place at the SHIFT Center for Social Transformation, in the J.W. McConnell Building at Concordia University, located at 1400 De Maisonneuve Boulevard in Montreal.
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.
Registration is free. To join in person or online, click here. For more information, please consult the following page.
About the speaker
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 and on YouTube: @ASRI-UVic.
Co-organized by Concordia University’s Social Justice Centre (SJC), the CRÉ, the Groupe de recherche en éthique animale et environnementale (GRÉEA), the Observatoire québécois en droit animalier (OQDA), the Canadian Society for Critical Animal Studies (CSCAS) and the SPCA of Montréal.
