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Do Future Generations Have Rights?

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Family Law and Policy Program, University of Illinois College of Law
Location
Room F, College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820
Date
Nov 6, 2025   5:00 - 6:00 pm  
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"Do Future Generations Have Rights?"
Featuring John Adenitire (Queen Mary, University of London)

Thursday, November 6
5:00 pm

Free and open to the public; pizza will be provided.

This event is sponsored by the Family Law and Policy Program.

About the Speaker
Dr. John Adenitire is an Associate Professor at Queen Mary, University of London. He completed his PhD in Law at the University of Cambridge. He is co-author of "Animals and the Constitution: Towards Sentience-Based Constitutionalism" (OUP 2025) and author of "A General Right to Conscientious Exemption" (CUP 2020). He co-directs the Forum on Decentering the Human at QMUL. He has held visiting research positions at Yale, Oxford, NYU, Fordham, and Chicago.

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