Hugo Menotti 

Legal Advocacy Manager

Hugo Menotti worked for ten years in human rights alongside politicians, lawyers, and people in precarious situations in various organizations such as administrative and criminal courts and European institutions. He then spent more than three years providing political advice to around twenty animal welfare NGOs in France. A lawyer by training, Hugo teaches the basics of legislative drafting at university.

He holds a double law degree from Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University, the Università degli Studi di Firenze, and Amsterdam Law School, as well as a master’s degree in human rights from Paris II Panthéon-Assas University.

Recent Publications:

  • Animals in the Law: Questioning the Property / Other-Than-Property Duality, with Alice Di Concetto, Sorbonne Doctoral Law Review (Vol. 7/2).
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