He is the author of Frontier Justice: The Global Refugee Crisis and What To Do About It (Doubleday Canada/University of Queensland Press, 2011) Duty and the Beast: Should We Eat Meat in the Name of Animal Rights?
His thesis was entitled The Ethical Creature: Animals and Equal Consideration, and was supervised by Keith Horton and then Miri Albahari.
He was promoted to associate teaching professor in 2019,[1] and, in the same year, published Duty and the Beast: Should We Eat Meat in the Name of Animal Rights?
In this book, Lamey explores the ethics of "new omnivorism", which is a position arguing that even if animals have high moral standing, meat eating is permissible (or obligatory).
It features essays on Margaret Atwood, Conrad Black, Joseph Boyden, David Frum, Mavis Gallant, Stephen Henighan, Will Kymlicka, Dany Laferrière, John Metcalf, and Charles Taylor.