Animal Law Week: The Predation Problem and Animal Agency

February 25, 2025

Ethicists have long struggled with the predation problem: do we have a duty to prevent suffering caused by animals? The prevailing response finds no duty because animals lack moral agency. Saylor Soinski, CALS Animal Law Teaching Fellow, reconsiders the predation problem in light of new research on animal language, cognition, and autonomy. Lunch provided! Zoom registration here.