Katie Sykes's guest appearances

Katie Sykes

Cruel and Unusual: A Podcast on Punishment

Animal Justice

Law Actually

Justin Marceau

Jane Goodall

David Kennedy

Pamela Fergusson

Jessica Scott-Reid

Peter Moskos

Nick Wright

Eric Berkowitz

Chris Green

Peter Brandt

Marc Bekoff

Colin Macleod

Nicholas Carter

David Garland

Jordan Furlong

OwlTail

In Episode 82 of the Paw &amp; Order podcast, Camille Labchuk interviews Thompson Rivers University Associate Professor of Law Katie Sykes about her new book, Animal Welfare and International Trade Law: The Impact of the WTO Seal Case. Katie discusses the history of the World Trade Organization and its trade agreements in relation to animal welfare, and gives an in-depth analysis of the EU ban on the sale of seal products, and why this ban was an important shift demonstrating that animal welfare issues have their place in trade exemptions that address public morals and changing, progressive attitudes.

#82: Animal Welfare & International Trade Law With Katie Sykes

How do I define success? Being useful. Making something better. We all have, in our jobs, these moments… we’re like: Why am I doing this? And I always have an answer. ~ Katie SykesProf. Katie Sykes (@katiesykes01) is a legal innovation powerhouse. She has degrees from the University of Toronto (Gold Medalist), Harvard and Dalhousie. She clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada. She practiced at a big international firm in New York. She has been published in a range of areas including a pioneering work on the treatment of animals. It’s hard to imagine a more impressive list of qualifications.But Katie’s present day work is even more impressive. In addition to being active in the area of law concerned with cruelty to animals, she also provides incredible learning opportunities for law students, including a course that teaches them how to build intelligent legal apps. This innovative spirit also drives Katie’s other efforts to push for improvements to legal education, access to justice and the practice of law on a large scale.In this episode, we had a fun, wide-ranging conversation about all this and more. Topics CoveredThe development and culture of one of Canada’s newest law schools.The path to legal academia.Experiences clerking at the Supreme Court of Canada. Recent developments in animal law.Historical approaches to animal law.Legal technology.Improving legal education and lawyering skills.Multidisciplinary legal skills.The Law Society of BC’s Futures Task ForceEmpirical legal research on public justice processes.Professional wellness.

How do I define success? Being useful. Making something better. We all have, in our jobs, these moments… we’re like: Why am I doing this? And I always have an answer. ~ Katie Sykes Prof. Katie Sykes (@katiesykes01) is a legal innovation powerhouse. She has degrees from the University of Toronto (Gold Medalist), Harvard and Dalhousie. She clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada. She practiced at a big international firm in New York. She has been published in a range of areas including a pioneering work on the treatment of animals. It’s hard to imagine a more impressive list of qualifications. But Katie’s present day work is even more impressive. In addition to being active in the area of law concerned with cruelty to animals, she also provides incredible learning opportunities for law students, including a course that teaches them how to build intelligent legal apps. This innovative spirit also drives Katie’s other efforts to push for improvements to legal education, access to justice and the practice of law on a large scale. In this episode, we had a fun, wide-ranging conversation about all this and more. Topics Covered The development and culture of one of Canada’s newest law schools. The path to legal academia. Experiences clerking at the Supreme Court of Canada. Recent developments in animal law. Historical approaches to animal law. Legal technology. Improving legal education and lawyering skills. Multidisciplinary legal skills. The Law Society of BC’s Futures Task Force Empirical legal research on public justice processes. Professional wellness.

6 Katie Sykes - From Medieval Animal Trials to Intelligent Legal Tech and the Future of Law

Do you find the idea of a pig on trial for murder or locusts punished for trespass ridiculous? If so (and I hope you do), than the history of medieval animal trials will likely intrigue, disturb, and downright baffle you. Fortunately, Katie Sykes helps us unpack one of the strangest phenomena in the long, lurid history of punishment.

Animal Trials (and Punishments) w/ Katie Sykes