Dr. Raffael Fasel

Biography

Raffael Fasel is an Assistant Professor of Public Law at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Law and a Fellow at Jesus College. He specializes in public law, with particular interests in constitutional theory, human rights law, and animal rights law. Raffael has held previous positions as a Yates Glazebrook Fellow and College Assistant Professor of Law at Jesus College and the London School of Economics. He has held visiting positions at prestigious institutions including Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, the University of Oxford, and NYU Law School. In 2021, he was awarded a £455,000 grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation for research on constitutional theory, affiliated with the University of Zurich. Raffael graduated summa cum laude from the University of Fribourg with a Bachelor of Law and a Master of Law and obtained an LLM from Yale Law School, where he was a Fulbright scholar, as well as a PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge. His PhD dissertation, "Equal to Humans? Rights for Animals," has received significant acclaim. Raffael's academic work has been published in leading journals and he co-founded the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law, where he currently serves as Co-Director. He is also an Associate Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and a Board Member of the Nonhuman Rights Project. Raffael actively supervises PhD students in his field.

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