Paul Waldau is an educator-scholar-activist working at the intersection of animal studies, ethics, religion, law and cultural studies. He is the Senior Faculty member at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, for the two-year on-line Master of Science program in Anthrozoology. The website for this program ishttp://www.canisius.edu/anthrozoology/index.dotHe is also currently (Spring 2014) the Bob Barker Visiting Associate Professor of Animal Law. He also teaches Harvard University's Summer Term online course "Animals: Religion and Ethics."Paul has completed five books. Oxford University Press published his most recent book, "Animal Studies" in February 2013, as well as his fourth book, "Animal Rights," in 2011. OUP also published his first book in 2001, "The Specter of Speciesism: Buddhist and Christian Views of Animals." In 2006, Columbia University Press published "A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics", a major edited collection done in conjunction with Professor Kimberley Patton of Harvard Divinity School. In 2008 Paul co-edited "An Elephant in the Room: The Science and Well-being of Elephants in Captivity", which was published by Tufts University's Center for Animals and Public Policy. A former trial lawyer and partner in a major California law firm, Paul left the practice of law to obtain a Doctor of Philosophy degree at University of Oxford. He then was a post-doctoral Senior Fellow at Harvard's Center for the Study of World Religion. He has also directed reading groups in animal law at Yale Law School. From 2004 through 2008 Paul was the Director of the Center for Animals and Public Policy at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine. He is also the President of the Religion and Animals Institute.More details are available at www.paulwaldau.com and www. religionandanimals.org