Leading American animal protection lawyer, Bruce Wagman, will deliver the Voiceless Animal Law Lecture Series keynote address, and the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG will launch Australia’s first animal law text book.

When:   6pm – 8pm, Tuesday 5 May.

Where:  The University of Sydney, Sydney Law School, The Auditorium, Room 101, New Sydney Law School Building F10, Sydney NSW 2006.

Why:  To discover why lessons learned about animal suffering in American courtrooms may apply to Australia and why animal protection law is fast becoming everyone's business.

Now in its third year, the Voiceless Animal Law Lecture Series brings one of San Francisco’s acclaimed ‘super lawyers’, Bruce Wagman, to Australia for a ten day speaking tour that takes in eleven venues across the country. Bruce will talk at universities, law schools, law firms and professional associations about his own experiences in US State and Federal courts protecting the interests of domestic and farm animals and challenging the big corporations that use and exploit cows, pigs and chickens for profit.

On the same evening, the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG will launch Australia's first animal law text book, Animal Law in Australasia, edited by Peter Sankoff of the University of Auckland and Steven White of Griffith University.

For more information about the 2009 Voiceless Animal Law Lecture series, which will take place between 5 May and 14 May 2009 and tour universities, law schools, law firms and professional associations in New South Wales, Queensland, the ACT, South Australia and Victoria, visit www.voiceless.org.au/lecture.

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