Close

Sherry Colb

Sherry was C.S. Wong Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. She had been valedictorian of her high school class and then valedictorian of her class at Columbia College. After Harvard Law School, she clerked with Second Circuit Judge Wilfred Feinberg and then Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun. She was frequently quoted in The New York Times and many other publications and was a prolific writer, including in her regular columns on Verdict and Dorf On Law. Sherry wrote the book, Mind if I Order the Cheeseburger? And Other Questions People Ask Vegans, and, with Michael Dorf, wrote Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights which focuses on sentience as the qualifier for moral consideration.

Sherry was vegan with a sentiocentric moral scope. She seemed to have a naturalistic worldview and was a strident critic of the harms enabled by religions.

@SherryColb
A tribute to Sherry’s life on the Our Hen House podcast

Latest work

Head shot of Ronen Bar looking directly into the camera.

If AIs Are Sentient They Will Know Suffering is Bad – Ronen Bar of The Moral Alignment Center on Sentientism Ep:226

Ronen Bar is the founder of The Moral Alignment Center. A Sentientism conversation about what's real, who matters and how to make a better world.
More

If AIs Are Sentient They Will Know Suffering is Bad – Ronen Bar of The Moral Alignment Center on Sentientism Ep:226

Ronen Bar is the founder of The Moral Alignment Center. A Sentientism conversation about what's real, who matters and how to make a better world.
More

“The United Nations has two core defects” – Peace Entrepreneur Anders Reagan – on Sentientism Ep:225

Anders Reagan is a peace entrepreneur, philosopher, academic, and technologist. He is founding director of the Peace and Conflict Science Institute (PACS). A Sentientism Conversation.
More

“We’re like babies running around with machine guns” – Mike Berners-Lee – on Sentientism ep:224

Mike Berners-Lee is a professor and fellow of the Institute for Social Futures at Lancaster University. His latest book is A Climate of Truth. A Sentientism conversation.
More

Join our mailing list and stay up to date

Sentientism

Handcrafted with ♥ by Cage Undefined