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Michael Dorf

Michael is a law professor and scholar of U.S. constitutional law. He is the Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. In addition to constitutional law, Michael has taught courses in civil procedure and federal courts. He has written/co-written/edited six books, including Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights (co-written with his wife, Sherry Colb), as well as scores of law review articles about American constitutional law. He is also a columnist for Verdict. Michael is a former law clerk to Justice Anthony Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Michael has appeared in American news media as a legal expert and has been interviewed by and/or quoted in, for example, The New York Times, CNN, National Public Radio and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (another suspected sentientist).

Michael is vegan with a sentiocentric moral scope. He has a naturalistic worldview, describing himself here as “an ethnically-identifying-but-non-religious American Jew.”

Find our Sentientist Conversation here on the Sentientism YouTube channel and here on the Sentientism podcast.

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Michael @ Verdict

Latest work

Grid of squares - each one showing the title of a page covering the possible implications of a sentientist worldview - from politics to culture to agriculture

Teaching the Sentientism Worldview

This short article aims to introduce the Sentientism worldview ("evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings" to the Religions and Worldview education community in the UK.
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Teaching the Sentientism Worldview

This short article aims to introduce the Sentientism worldview ("evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings" to the Religions and Worldview education community in the UK.
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A Truly Humane Education – Laura Chepner – The Vegan Society’s Education Officer – Sentientism Ep:194

Laura is Education Officer at The Vegan Society. A conversation about Sentientism's "evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings".
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Is Veganic the Future of Farming? “We grow plants using plants” – Jimmy Videle – Sentientism Ep:192

Jimmy Videle is a farmer, naturalist and researcher. He is the author of The Veganic Grower’s Handbook. A Sentientism conversation about "what's real?", "who matters?" and "how to make a better world?"
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