Biography
Dr Paula Casal is a Professor in the Department of Law at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Spain. She has held teaching positions at Reading University and Keele University, United Kingdom. Professor Casal has completed fellowships at institutions across the globe, having served as Fellow in Ethics at Harvard University from 1999 to 2000; a Keele Junior Research Fellow, also at Harvard University, from 2000 to 2001; Hoover Fellow at Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium from 2001 to 2002;; Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom from 2002 to 2004; and Christopher Family Fellow at Stanford University, United States in 2018. Her work has appeared in a number of journals, including Ethics, Economics & Philosophy, Journal of Medical Ethics, Journal of Moral Philosophy, Journal of Political Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Political Studies, and Utilitas. She is Associate Editor of Politics, Economics & Philosophy, and Law, Ethics and Philosophy. Professor Casal currently serves as Co-director of the UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics and as President of the Great Ape Project chapter in Spain. Her latest book, Los derechos de los simios (Trotta 2022) co-written with Professor Peter Singer, is forthcoming in English in 2025.