International conference organized under the scientific direction of Ms. Aloïse Quesne, Senior Lecturer in Private Law
This international colloquium, supported by the MRSH, was organized under the aegis of the Normandy Chair for Peace, with the support of the Demolombe Institute, Caen la Mer and the University of Caen Normandy. The event was placed under the high patronage of Jean-Paul COSTA, President of the René Cassin Foundation, Honorary State Counselor and former President of the European Court of Human Rights. This symposium, the first of its kind in Normandy, had as its objectives to question the meaning and definition of the notion of animal sensibility and to reflect on the implementation of innovative legal mechanisms intended for a better protection of the animal.
Find below the videos of the interventions
Prolegomena
The identification of the notion of animal sensibility: which animals and which sensibility(ies) are we talking about?
Part 1
Animal sensibility in positive law: unequal protection through a categorical approach
Part 2
Animal sensibility in prospective law: protection unified by a global approach
1st theme: Animal protection and politics
2nd theme: Animal protection and legal status
3rd theme: Animal protection and legal instruments
Synthesis of the symposium & Concluding remarks
I warmly thank all the speakers, both face-to-face and remote, for their real investment. I would also like to thank the audience, who sometimes came from far away and even from abroad. A big thank you to the MRSH and to all the partners, especially the associations, for having made this day possible.
Throughout this conference we travelled to the four corners of France as well as to Portugal, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy and Canada! 17 speakers followed one another during this beautiful day, under the mischievous eye of the conference mascot, a multicolored rat, work of the painter Nicolas JONVAL.
This international and transdisciplinary colloquium, devoted to animal sentience and the improvement of animal protection through law, has allowed us to nourish our reflection on the notion of animal sensibility but also on the different practices and legislations, giving the possibility to be inspired by those which are the most advanced in terms of animal protection. The holding of this international colloquium, within a French University, will also have contributed to the evolution of mentalities, which is the necessary starting point for any improvement of the animal condition.