Dear Law Students,

Animal Law Symposium: Los Angeles

Join the Animal Legal Defense Fund for our Animal Law Symposium in Los Angeles! This day-long event will provide attendees with the opportunity to hear from the top voices within the animal law community, including local experts. Participants will also be invited to attend a social reception after the program concludes where they can meet and mingle with the presenters and other attendees. Animal Legal Defense Fund is offering travel grants to student chapters to attend the event. Grants are awarded on a first come, first served basis and they will go quickly.

Animal Law Summer Program

The Center for Animal Law Studies at Lewis & Clark Animal Law Summer Program classes are available for academic credit to Lewis & Clark law students, visiting law students, and international students. They are also available for auditing by attorneys and non-law students. Classes include two online offerings, Aquatic Animal Law and The Law & Ethics of Animal Testing, and one in-person course, Animal Rights Law & Jurisprudence.

Advancement of Animal Law Scholarships

Apply for a scholarship! The Animal Legal Defense Fund Advancement of Animal Law Scholarships are available to law student members of our Animal Legal Defense Fund Student Chapters and are awarded based upon demonstrated commitment to Animal Legal Defense Fund’s mission, “to protect the lives and advance the interests of animals through the legal system.” Applicants should be committed to the advancement of animal law through active involvement with their student chapter while in law school and anticipated participation in the field after graduation. Applications are due April 6.

Factory Farms: Harming Animals, the Environment, and Communities of Color Webinar

Industrial animal agriculture generates immeasurable animal suffering, extreme pollution, and environmental injustice. But government at all levels declines to regulate this industry, and even passes laws to shield it from legal liability and public scrutiny. In this webinar, Christine Ball-Blakely will illustrate the consequences of this reality by discussing the impacts of factory farms in North Carolina, which are disproportionately sited in low-income communities of color. You will learn about the carefully-carved legal loopholes that allow these factory farms to operate almost entirely unfettered by protections for animals, the environment, or communities, and about how impacted communities—and others—are fighting back.