Drawing on more than 25 years experience and his work as Legal Counsel for India’s peak environmental and animal protection organisations, Mr Raj Panjwani will deliver the 2008 public lecture on animal protection at UNSW on 22 May.

Mr Panjwani will provide an overview of the status of animal protection in India and shed light on some of the big issues facing legal advocates for animals. Drawing on his experience as a voice for wild and domesticated animals, he will discuss the use of animals in entertainment, food production, scientific and teaching purposes, and hunting and examine the implications of the global expansion of agribusiness for India’s farm animals.

Mr Panjwani will be joined by a panel of animal advocates, chaired by Katrina Sharman, Corporate Counsel for Voiceless,  including: 

• Professor David Weisbrot AM, President of the Australian Law Reform Commission;
• Dr Siobhan O’Sullivan, Specialist in Animal Welfare Public Policy based at the University of Melbourne; and
• Tara Ward, Lecturer in Animal Law at the University of New South Wales.

This public lecture is supported by UNSW Faculty of Law and Voiceless, the fund for animals.

Mr Panjwani will also deliver a number of public lectures in Australia and New Zealand. Full details and further information are available on the Voiceless website. 

UNSW Faculty of Law is proud to partner with Voiceless in delivering this annual lecture series on animal law. The distinctive contribution of UNSW Law is producing lawyers who deliberate about how they affect society. Voiceless, like UNSW Law, addresses practical ways in which the law works. This partnership is one of the many ways UNSW Law embraces active consideration of the law for all members of society.