Find our first Sentientism conversation here on the Sentientism YouTube and here on the Sentientism podcast. Find our second Sentientism conversation, along with Raffael Fasel, on the Sentientism YouTube here and on the Sentientism podcast here.

John is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law and a Co-Director of the Forum on Decentering the Human at Queen Mary University London. Prior to joining Queen Mary, he was a Lecturer in Law at the University of Birmingham. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law and Fitzwilliam College. He has taught or researched at Cambridge, Durham, Birmingham, the UCL Constitution Unit, the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law and the UK Commission on a Bill of Rights. He has been a research visitor at Yale, Oxford, NYU, Fordham, and Chicago. John’s research is primarily focused on Public Law, Legal Theory, and Comparative Constitutional Law, with distinct specialisations in conscientious exemptions and including non-human animals in constitutional law.

Among many other publications he is the author, along with Raffael Fasel, of “Animals and the Constitution: Towards Sentience-Based Constitutionalism.”

Although he started out as a Sunday School teacher in Nigeria, John now has a non-religious, naturalistic worldview and is a trustee of Humanists UK. He is also a vocal advocate for veganism (because of his sentiocentric moral scope) and salsa dancing.

John at Queen Mary Uni of London
@JohnAdenitire