Priscila Gulič Pirnat

Priscila Gulič Pirnat is the founder of the Citizens' Initiative for the Improvement of Legal Protection of Animals (2010) and lobbies government authorities for better laws for animals. She has campaigned for a ban on the breeding and hunting of animals for fur, hides, down and feathers, the use of wild animals in circuses and similar events, religious slaughter without anaesthesia, etc. She has made proposals against the euthanasia of animals in Slovenian animal shelters and for the criminalisation of negligent acts, in addition to intentional acts towards animals. She is a national expert member of the Swiss Association Global Animal Law (Switzerland), World Animal Justice (France), and the research group Access to Justice (Belgium, Denmark). She is a PhD candidate at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, and her research focuses on the relationship between animal ethics and animal rights law. She also works full-time as the head of the Central Humanities Library at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana.