AREL, the Summer School 2024 of the IBMB, will bring together reknown experts in Ethics and Law to discuss subjects related to the use of animals in research. Topics such as the 3Rs principle, animal welfare, animal law as well as laboratory research will be on the focus and informal moments between presentation will give participants the opportunity to exchange and connect.

Date: 30th of May 2024

Place: University of Basel, Switzerland

Room: Hörsaal 00.006,

Address: Missionstrasse 62a, 4055 Basel

Speakers:

Dr. Tatjana Višak (DE) University of Mannheim
Tatjana Višak is a philosopher specialising in ethics and political philosophy. Currently based in the Department of Philosophy and Business Ethics at the University of Mannheim, she is the author of the monographs Killing Happy Animals (2013, Palgrave Macmillan) and Capacity for Welfare Across Species (2023, Oxford University Press), and the editor, with the political theorist Robert Garner, of The Ethics of Killing Animals (2016, Oxford University Press). https://tatjanavisak.com/research/ 

Dr. Nuno Henrique Franco (PT) University of Porto
Nuno Franco is a Researcher at the Laboratory Animal Science group, University of Porto. He has a background in both Science Education and Biology, with a 5-year degree in Biology and Geology Education and Teaching, and a 4-year degree in (Animal) Biology from the University of Trás-os-Montes-e-Alto-Douro. In 2013, he received the UFAW Young Animal Welfare Scientist of the Year Award. His research interests include, among other things, scientists’ attitudes about the 3Rs and the ethics of animal research. https://www.i3s.up.pt/personal-info.php?id=33&idg=29

Dr.Soc.Sc. (Public Law) Anna Birgitta Wahlberg (FI) Åbo Akademi University
Lecturer in Public Law at Åbo Akademi University and the Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Economics, and Law. Her interests are in fundamental animal rights as a de lege ferenda topic, and in animals and administrative control as a de lege lata topic. She is a co-founder and president of the Finnish Animal Rights Lawyers Society. https://law.lclark.edu/live/profiles/17203-anna-birgitta-wahlberg

Dr. iur., LL.M. (Harvard) Charlotte Blattner (CH) University of Bern
Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the Faculty of Law, Institute of Public Law at the University of Bern. Her interest is in how the law regulates and mediates the relationship between governments and individual subjects, including the more-than-human subjects (animals, the environment, nature). She is a Member of the Ethics Committee for Animal Experimentation (KTVE) Bern https://charlotteblattner.net/

Organizers:

Rosa Maria Cajiga Morales & Christian Rodriguez Perez

Contact:

rosamaria.cajigamorales@unibas.ch & c.rodriguezperez@unibas.ch