V. Victoria Shroff is an award winning animal law lawyer, author, and university instructor who recognizes that the right to exist means we must co-exist with all other animals in order to survive and thrive. She is sharing her ideas to spark the imagination for how we can move forward as One. Co-existence is to recognize that animals too, must be seen and heard, and have their physiological and emotional needs met as sentient beings. Shroff posits that animals should be seen as more than mere property and need better treatment under the law based on their sentience. V. Victoria Shroff is one of the first and longest serving animal law practitioners in Canada and the longest serving animal law lawyer in BC. She is an associate Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and founding chair of the Canadian Animal Law Study Group. She is an animal law trailblazer in both the courtroom and classroom and author of Canadian Animal Law (Lexis-Nexis). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx.
Link to watch Shroff’s Animal Law Tedx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atb0SyUN3HA