M.H. Tse

M.H. Tse is a Toronto-based legal scholar, writer, and the founding Director of the Museum of Human Predation. She holds an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School (2024). Her research develops the concept of domestic predation as a framework for examining the practice of custodial animal bodily extraction and its analogs. Her scholarly writing on animals, property, and the legal origins of predatory violence is forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook on Global Animal Law (Anne Peters, Saskia Stucki, & Kristen Stilt eds.). Her literary essay "Hello From the Children of Planet Earth" appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review and was selected for the Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (2026) and listed as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2025. She is the 2024-2026 inaugural Hadley Postdoctoral Fellow in Animal Law at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.

Session: Prefigurative Animal Law: Actualizing Human-animal Utopias in the Here and Now