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Check out Dan Sondike’s Animal Law Week article in the Harvard Law Record:
http://hlrecord.org/2016/03/in-winning-rights-for-animals-approaches-differ/ and Raishay Lin’s in Harvard Law Today: https://today.law.harvard.edu/focusing-on-law-and-the-treatment-of-animals/.

For more information, go to TinyURL.com/HLSAnimal.

HLS keeps getting better and better!

The school recently hired animal protection lawyer Natalie Prosin to develop and manage a new Animals, Law and Religion Project, under the fabulous Professor Kristen Stilt!

Before coming to HLS, Ms. Prosin served as Executive Director of the famous and forward-thinking Nonhuman Rights Project.

Dear 1Ls, LLMs, and transfers:

Welcome to the HLS Student Animal Legal Defense Fund chapter (HLS SALDF). We host fun, edgy, packed lunch talks, with the best food on campus. (See past events.) We also use the law to protect animals. We collaborate with HLS’s exciting new Animal Law & Policy Program.

This fall, we invite you to a 9/17 Massachusetts ballot initiative talk, a 9/19 field trip to Maple Farm Sanctuary, a 9/30 talk by Farm Sanctuary’s founder, a 10/23 animal drugs conference, a 10/28 careers in animal law panel, and more! (See upcoming events.)

To join our email list, click here, or email majordomo@lists.law.harvard.edu with “subscribe saldf” in the body of the email. You can like us on Facebook, and email us at SALDF.HLS@gmail.com.

Love,

HLS SALDF

Two exciting updates regarding animal law at Harvard Law School:

1) This fall, HLS offers its first-ever Wildlife Law course, with Professor Jonathan Lovvorn, Senior Vice President of Animal Protection Litigation and Investigations at the Humane Society of the United States.

2) Also this fall, HLS hosts its first-ever Animal Law Fellow: Delcianna Winders, Deputy General Counsel at the PETA Foundation.

Both of these updates thanks to the generous gift by Bradley L. Goldberg.

In other exciting animal law news, a New York judge at least temporarily granted the personhood right of habeas corpus to two chimpanzees. (This comes a few months after an Argentina court made a similar decision for an orangutan.)

Thank you to the Animal Legal Defense Fund for choosing the Harvard Law School SALDF for its most recent spotlight article! Read the article here: http://aldf.org/about-us/saldf/chapter-spotlights/saldf-spotlight-harvard-law-school/.

2014-15 is proving busy for HLS SALDF! Our upcoming events for the spring semester include:

Jon Lovvorn of HSUS, “The Intersection Between Animal Law and Environmental Law” February 9, 12pm

Carter Dillard of ALDF and Stephanie Feldstein of CBD, “Animal Rights, Human Rights, and the Future of our Planet” February 23, 12 pm

Town hall meeting on HLS’s Animal Advocacy Program, February 24th, 12pm

Chris Green of ALDF, “Puppy Mills and Dog Breeding: The Realities Behind Buying a Pet” February 25, 12pm

Ingrid Newkirk Talk, President of PETA, February 26, 12pm

Harvard Law School will host the National Animal Law Competition, February 27-29th

Josh Tetrick of Hampton Creek (Just Mayo), TBD

Panel on the Hazards Faced by Workers in Factory Farms, TBD.

See events page for details!

Amazing news! A generous donor has just given a huge gift to HLS for “curriculum development, experiential learning, scholarly gatherings and exchanges, forums for discussion and debate, and the establishment of an Academic Fellows program”–all focused on animal advocacy! http://today.law.harvard.edu/bradley-l-goldberg-gift-will-support-animal-advocacy-program-at-harvard-law-school/

#1. Monday, 10/20, 12pm, Pound 102: University of Toronto’s Professor Lesli Bisgould discusses animals and the law, over a free Italian lunch!

#2. Monday, 10/27, 12pm, Austin 200: NutritionFacts.org’s Dr. Michael Greger gives a hilarious nutrition presentation–with free falafel!