The Master in Animal Law and Society is a professional specialisation programme which aims to train experts in work related to animals from a comparative legal perspective taking into account the requirements of society as a whole.

It is of a markedly interdisciplinary nature, an seeks to offer an integral training combining knowledge relating to animals from the areas of law, ethology, nutrition and welfare, the ethical dimension, artistic representation and shows, organisation and social responsibility.

The Masters degree has a strong practical side, since it hopes to train professionals to be capable of managing new challenges demanded by society in relation to animals. It aims to offer the necessary theory and practice involved in a profession related to animals that is demanded in an intercommunicated society that is increasingly aware of the role that good treatment of animals plays in a sustainable and public society.

The postgraduate course Animals, Law and Society was offered for the first time from January to May 2011. It has proved an enriching experience and the students are very keen to continue studying at Masters level. With the Masters degree the postgraduate course will disappear but we have opened up the possibility of doing the first two modules of the Masters degree as a single specialisation course in Animals, Law and Society for which a certificate will be issued.

- Degree or diploma holders in any discipline (preferably in Law, Humanities, Philosophy, Veterinary Medicine, History, Communication Science, Biology, Environmental Science, Education).

Student profile:
- People working, volunteering or with an interest in animal associations, centres or protection organisations.
- Local, autonomous and central government employees; named positions in the abovementioned administrations.
- Security force employees.

- Experts in international, governmental, state, local agencies, private companies and industries, educational centres and the media.
- Specialisation in animal law for judges, lawyers, and other legal operators in different branches of application.
- Advisor to companies and local, autonomous or state organisations, veterinary centres, educational centres, refuges, protection organisations, security force staff.
- Planning of the necessary tool for supporting individual projects for improving animal welfare.
- Local, autonomous and central government employees; named positions in the abovementioned administrations.
- Expert advisor in zoological centres, experimentation centres, production, entertainment or communication organisations.
- Implementation of expert, quality work that can assume the new requirements derived from the greater knowledge of the legal status of animals and social recognition of that status.
- Preparation for teaching animal law and society on an academic and basic level.

• Carlos Contreras
• Phone: 673933984
• E-mail: formacion@derechoanimal.info
• Web: http://www.derechoanimal.info/