Yoriko Otomo: Mass Extinction, Global Governance and Law by The Dickson Poon School of Law published on 2017-06-01T09:31:08Z Yoriko Otomo is a Lecturer in Law at SOAS, and recently a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Global History, University of Oxford and the University of New South Wales. She received her doctorate (as well as a BA and Honours degree in Law) from the University of Melbourne. Her research examines cross-cultural histories of global governance, looking in particular at the ways in which emerging patterns of economic interdependence changed representations of women and animals. She is working on a project, ‘White Revolutions’ that examines the development of the dairy industries in colonial Britain, and has co-edited two books, 'Law and the Question of the Animal: A Critical Jurisprudence' (Routledge, 2012) and ‘Making Milk: The Past, Present and Future of Our Primary Food’ (Bloomsbury, forthcoming). Yoriko’s recent book, 'Unconditional Life: The International Law Settlement' was published by OUP (2016) and she has written various articles on environmental law history and animal law, including contributions to blogs: http://criticallegalthinking.com/2016/12/06/end-city-last-man-urban-animals-law/. The music used in this podcast is called Apollo1 by Olivier Girardot and it is licensed under Creative Commons. For more information on the TLI and its events, please visit our website: www.kcl.ac.uk/law/tli/index.aspx ---------------------- Visit our website for more information: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/law/index.aspx Follow The Dickson Poon School of Law on YouTube and social media for more videos and podcasts. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDicksonPoonSchoolofLaw/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/KCL_Law Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kcl_law/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-dickson-poon-school-of-law Genre News & Politics
