CONCLUDING REMARKS, by Aloïse QUESNE

CONCLUDING REMARKS, by Aloïse QUESNE (Associate Professor in Private Law, Paris-Saclay University, Evry)

This conclusion was filmed within the framework of the international colloquium “Animal sentience: legal approaches and transdisciplinary issues”, supported by the MRSH, organized by Aloïse QUESNE, Associate Professor in private law, 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 conference, the first of its kind in Normandy, had as its objectives to question the meaning and definition of the notion of animal sentience and to reflect on the implementation of innovative legal mechanisms intended for a better protection of the animal.