Lewis & ClarkLaw School

Summer Session

Animal Law — View PDF of 2012 offerings.

For e-mail updates, contact lhandzel@lclark.edu

Spend your summer in beautiful Portland, Oregon while studying with some of the best animal law professors and earning credit towards your Juris Doctorate.  Lewis & Clark Law School has the only Summer Intensive Animal Law Program. Once again this year, we’re e excited to be offering first-time courses.

Registration for Summer 2012 courses generally opens in January, but feel free to contact us with questions anytime.  Please direct inquiries to Laura Handzel of the Center for Animal Law Studies at lhandzel@lclark.edu.

Please note: Prospective visiting student should apply for financial aid at their home institutions as soon as possible.  Classes are open to current law students, practitioners, plus some legal assistants and Ph.D. students.  Classes may be taken for credit, audit or audit with a certificate.  Auditing students must first receive permission to register and enrollment depends on space availability.

Session I

Classes:  May 29 – June 28, 2012

Final Exams: June 29 and/or July 2

  • This course emphasizes both the theoretical and practical aspects of civil litigation in animal law cases at both the federal and state level…
    Animal Law Litigation  924-S1
    Professors: Carter Dillard & Matthew Liebman
    2 credits
    Class meet Tuesday June 26 - Monday July 9
    9:00am - 12:00pm in Room Smith
    Exam on July 9th
  • This course will explore the control and use of wildlife at the national and international level…
    International Wildlife  951-S1
    Professor: David Favre
    2 credits
    Class meet Tuesday June 12 - Monday June 25
    9:00am - 12:00pm in Room Smith
    Exam on June 25th

Session II

Classes:  July 3 – August 6, 2012

Final Exams: August 3 and/or August 6

  • This two-week course will  examine the current legal protections, for nonhuman animals, the problem of obtaining standing, as well as sources and characteristics of fundamental rights.
    Animal Rights Law & Jurisprudence 407-S2
    Professor: Steve Wise
    2 credits
    Class meet Tuesday July 10 - Monday July 23
    9:00am - 12:00pm in Room Smith
    Exam on July 23rd
  • Animals are used routinely in scientific experiments in biomedical research and in toxicity testing…
    Law of Humane Science 921-S2
    Professor: Paul Locke
    2 credits
    Class meet Tuesday July 24 - Monday August 6
    9:00am - 12:00pm in Room Smith
    Exam on August 6th

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