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Raffael is University Assistant Professor in Public Law at the Cambridge Law Faculty and Fellow of Jesus College. He specialises in public law, with a particular interest in constitutional theory, human rights law, and animal rights law. Raffael was previously Yates Glazebrook Fellow and College Assistant Professor in Law at Jesus College and Fellow in Law at the London School of Economics. He has held visiting positions at Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, the University of Oxford, and NYU Law School.

Raffael is the author, co-author, and co-editor of several books, including More Equal Than Others: Humans and the Rights of Other Animals, of Animals and the Constitution: Towards Sentience-based Constitutionalism (with John Adenitire), and of Animal Rights Law (with Sean Butler). In addition, he is the co-editor (with John Adenitire) of Fundamental Rights for Non-Humans: Foundations, Flaws, and Futures. His work has been covered in various news outlets, including the BBC, The Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Irish Times, The National, and Psychology Today.

During his doctoral studies, Raffael co-founded the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law and currently serves as its Co-Director. He is also an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, and is a Board Member of the Nonhuman Rights Project.

Raffael at the University of Cambridge
@raffaelfasel