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About the Author

Paul Waldau holds a doctorate in ethics from Oxford University, a law degree from UCLA, and a Master's Degree from Stanford University. He is currently Assistant Clinical Professor at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, where he is on the faculty of the Center for Animals and Public Policy. He teaches courses entitled "Jurisprudence Ethics" and "The Human-Animal bond." He is also an adjunct faculty member at Boston College Law School
and Harvard Law School, where he teaches animal law courses.

Reviews

"Anyone interested in ethical arguments on animal rights will find especially useful the sections that systematically assess the past thirty years of debates on the topic and will find the call to consider the reality of nonhuman animals' lives a thought-provoking challenge." --Journal of Religion
"This is a careful and detailed examination of Buddhist and Christian understandings of non-human animal life, going back to the canonical sources, and reaching the conclusion that, contrary to the opinion of many, both traditions have been equally 'speciesist'. Dr. Waldau's persuasive arguments will have to be taken into account by everyone concerned with this issue."-John Hick, Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Research in Arts and Social Sciences,
University of Birmingham, UK
"Anyone interested in ethical arguments on animal rights will find especially useful the sections that systematically assess the past thirty years of debates on the topic and will find the call to consider the reality of nonhuman animals' lives a thought-provoking challenge." --Journal of Religion
"Paul Waldau offers us what may be the most in-depth and scholarly analysis todate on the subject of speciesism as deeply embedded in both Christianity and Buddhism. His data are both convincing and disturbing."-The Journal of the American Academy of Religion
"This is a careful and detailed examination of Buddhist and Christian understandings of non-human animal life, going back to the canonical sources, and reaching the conclusion that, contrary to the opinion of many, both traditions have been equally 'speciesist'. Dr. Waldau's persuasive arguments will have to be taken into account by everyone concerned with this issue."-John Hick, Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Research in Arts and Social Sciences,
University of Birmingham, UK