Paul Francis Waldau is a professor at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, where he heads the graduate program on anthrozoology. He has several times served as Barker Lecturer in animal law at Harvard Law School, and is the author of a number of books on animal rights and speciesism.Waldau has also served as the legal director of the Great Ape Project, which campaigns for rights for chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans.