Paul Waldau

Paul Waldau
Nationality	American
Education	BA (Religious Studies, 1971) University of California at Santa Barbara Juris Doctor (1978) University of California at Los Angeles Theology (1971–1972) University of Chicago Divinity School MA (Religious Studies, 1974) Stanford University DPhil (1997) University of Oxford
Occupation	Professor in anthrozoology
Employer	Canisius College
Known for	Animal rights, animal ethics, animal law
Website	www.pauldwaldau.com

Paul Francis Waldau is a professor at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, where he heads the graduate program on anthrozoology, which he founded. He has several times served as Barker Lecturer in animal law at Harvard Law School, and is the author of a number of books on animal rights and speciesism.^[1]

Waldau has also served as the legal director of the Great Ape Project, which campaigns for rights for chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans.^[2]

Books

• (2001). The Specter of Speciesism: Buddhist and Christian Views of Animals. Oxford University Press.
• (ed.) (2006). A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics. Columbia University Press.
• (ed.) (2008). An Elephant in the Room: The Science and Well-being of Elephants in Captivity. Center for Animals and Public Policy.
• (2011). Animal Rights: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford University Press.
• (forthcoming). The Animal Invitation: Religion, Law, Science and Ethics in a More-Than-Human World.
• (2013). Animal Studies: An Introduction. Oxford University Press.

Notes

Further reading

• Koch, John (1 July 2001). "Paul Waldau, ethicist and former lawyer", The Boston Globe.