Angela Fernandez

Angela Fernandez teaches animal law at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where she is cross-appointed in the department of history. She is the author of Pierson v. Post, the Hunt for the Fox: Law and Professionalization in American Legal Culture (Cambridge University Press 2018) and numerous book chapters and articles, including “Not Quite Property, Not Quite Persons: A ‘Quasi’ Approach for Nonhuman Animals” in the Canadian Journal of Comparative and Contemporary Law, and a forthcoming entry in the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law on “Wildlife as Quasi-Property.” She has been organizing a monthly Working Group on Animals in the Law and Humanities since 2013, sits on the Advisory Board of the Global Journal of Animal Law, and has been a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics since 2018. She also oversees the production of the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights, Law & Policy’s Animal Law Digest: Canada Edition, and the University of Toronto’s Animal Law Research Guide.