CALS Students & Alumni

Frannie von Friedeburg, 2L and LC ALDF Co-Director, shares an overview of the 4th Annual Brooks Animal Law Student Summit

Animal Law LLM Candidate, Savannah Sherman, Named Second Recipient of the Thomas Bloom Raskin Animal Protection Scholarship.

The fifth round of CALS Ambassadors have been selected to carry out innovative projects that advance animal protection and animal law across the globe.

Meet three outstanding JD scholarship students committed to pursuing careers challenging industrial animal agriculture: Josephine Blatny, Camille Bond, and Nicole Wood.

Alum Sarah Rae, Lewis & Clark JD alum, is the inaugural fellow for the Food System Reform Fellowship working with US Senator Cory Booker’s Office. Her work will focus on food system reform, nutrition and animal welfare.

CALS Ambassador, Iga Głażewska-Bromant, shares her Global Ambassador Project to bring broader, global, and often underexplored conversations about animals into Polish legal and academic discourse.

CALS Ambassadors, Varnika Singh (Animal Law LLM, ’23) and Julie Palais (Animal Law MSL, ’23), share their Global Ambassador Project to support the emergence of animal law in Nepal.

Lewis & Clark Law School Alum, Kaiti Bestor, joins the CALS Team

CALS Ambassador, Kimberly Backman (’24, LLM), shares her Global Ambassador Project founding a nonprofit to provide pro bono legal services for Illinois animal shelters and rescues.

LC ALDF Co-Directors for the 2024-25 Academic Year share details of how students cultivated animal law education, awareness, and community.

The annual merit award, given in memory of Florence Kaufelt, honors an Animal Law LLM graduate whose work reflects her lifelong dedication to animals.

This year’s award is presented to Mei Brunson and Suzannah Smith for their exceptional leadership in the field of animal law.

Megan Rosen, LLM Candidate, Named Inaugural Recipient of the Thomas Bloom Raskin Animal Protection Scholarship

Miranda Herreid, a JD student in the Farmed Animal Protection Project, breaks down why manure biogas is not the solution and will further entrench factory farming.

Global Law Alliance clinic students joined advocacy groups from across the country to urge U.S. negotiators to act aggressively within the scope of their authority as the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations begin to come to a close.