Jerrold Tannenbaum
Professor, School of Veterinary Medicine
Adjunct Professor, School of Law
Department of Population Health & Reproduction
Mail : 1114 Tupper Hall
University of California
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: 530-754-8809
Fax: 530-752-4278
E-mail: jtannenbaum@ucdavis.edu
Law 224, Animal Law Seminar, returns in August 2010, in the Law School's Fall Semester. The course is open to second and third year law students at King Hall. A limited number of graduate students may be permitted to register for graded graduate school units in connection with the course. Interested graduate and professional students may also attend VMD 436 and VMD 437, Veterinary Ethics and Law, with the instructor's permission.
Education
A.B. and M.A. in Philosophy, Cornell University.
J.D., Harvard Law School.
Research
interests
Animal law and ethics; animal welfare; veterinary ethical, legal, and
policy studies; animal research ethics; biomedical ethics.
Teaching
VMD 436: Veterinary Ethics and Law, course
leader. [Required course for first year veterinary students.]
VMD 437: Veterinary Ethics and Law, course leader. [Required course for third year veterinary students.]
VMD 480:
Veterinary Ethics Rounds. [Required ethics
presentation and seminar for fourth year veterinary students.]
Law 224: Animal Law, course leader. [Seminar course for
second and third year law students, others with permission of the instructor.]
PHR 092, 199, 298, 299: Independent and group study in animal or veterinary ethics and law for undergraduate, professional, and graduate students.
VMD/ANS 170: Ethics of Animal Use, course leader [1999-2006]. [Undergraduate course in animal ethics.]
Lecturing in undergraduate, graduate, and professional courses on ethical issues relating to animals, veterinary medicine, the use of animals in research, and the responsible conduct of research.
Service
Chair, School of Veterinary Medicine Animal Welfare
Committee; service on other UCD and School of Veterinary Medicine
committees; frequent speaker at meetings and continuing education seminars
on issues in animal and veterinary law and ethics; Member, Board of
Directors, California Biomedical Research Association.
Selected
publications
"The Paradigm Shift Toward Animal Happiness: What It Is,
Why It Is Happening, and What It Portends for Medical Research," in Ellen Frankel Paul and Jeffrey Paul (editors), Why Animal Experimentation
Matters: The Use of Animals in Medical Research, Transaction Publishers,
2001. "Animal Rights and Animal Research," in A.L. Kraus and D. Rehnquist (editors), Bioethics and the Use of Animals
in Research, American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine, 2000. "Ethics and Pain Research in Animals," ILAR Journal,
Vol. 40, No. 3, 1999. "Animals and the Law: Cruelty, Property,
and Rights," Social Research, Vol. 62, No. 3, 1995.
Veterinary Ethics: Animal Welfare, Client Relations,
Competition and Collegiality, Second Edition, Mosby,
1995.
Selected presentations
"Bioethics and the Hamburger Principle: From Xenotransplantation
to Chimeras and Back." American Physiological Society Walter C. Randall
Lecture in Bioethics, 2008 Annual Experimental Biology Meeting. "Farm Animal Welfare and the Law." Lecture series
sponsored by UCD Agricultural Law Society, 2004. "Animal
Welfare: Process and Policy." Meeting of the House of Delegates,
California Veterinary Medical Profession, 2003. "Ignoring
the Infrastructure: Is There Time to Save Biomedical Research?"
Annual Joint Meeting of the California Biomedical Research Association
and the California Society for Biomedical Research, 2003.
Work in progress
Papers on the nature of animal law; the use of animals in basic
research; and ethical issues raised by xenotransplantation. Animal
law case book.