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In honor of International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating Professor Joyce Tischler and the pivotal role women play in the animal protection movement.

Introducing Lewis & Clark Law Students Suzannah Smith (2L) and Melissa Baines (3L) as the recipients of the 2023-24 Law Scholars for Change Scholarships

Diego Plaza (’20, LLM, Chile) shares how he’s advancing animal law education for his Global Ambassador Project.

Professor Joyce Tischler reflects on the life and legacy of animal rights law champion, Steve Wise

Join the next generation of animal advocates by pursuing one of our advanced degrees. Apply by February 1st for Fall 2024.

This year commemorates the 15-year anniversary of the Center for Animal Law Studies’ founding. In honor of this milestone, we reflect on the remarkable growth of animal law education since CALS opened its doors in 2008 and some of our key achievements.

The Center for Animal Law Studies and Bond University are collaborating to make animal law educational resources freely accessible to anyone, everywhere.

A Thanksgiving reflection by Professor Joyce Tischler

Critical Tool Could Save Imperiled Species

Co-hosted by the Center for Animal Law Studies and the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the Animal Law Conference is the preeminent event in the ever-burgeoning animal law field.

We are delighted to invite fellowship applications for the 2024-25 Academic Year.

Yvonne Gurira (’22, LLM, Zimbabwe) shares how she’s spearheading community outreach and stakeholder collaboration for her Global Ambassador Project.

Applications are now being accepted for the inaugural Fall 2024 class.

As we honor World Farmed Animal Day, Professor Joyce Tischler and 3L Akela Baldwin share what you should know to protect important legal advancements made for farmed animals.

Rachel De Graaf and Annie Sloan are recipients of the highly competitive Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law & Policy LLM Fellowships.

Pangolins are the most heavily trafficked mammals in the world. The Global Law Alliance for Animals and the Environment, together with collaborating organizations, successfully pursued a Pelly Petition to protect them.

On National Wildlife Day, we focus on the harms caused when humans inappropriately interact with wild animals.

Four international alumni have been selected through our Global Ambassador Program to advance animal protection and animal law in their country.

Across the globe, aquatic animals and oceans are in peril due to industrial-scale fishing.

In honor of World Oceans Day, our Global Law Alliance for Animals and the Environment (GLA) dives into the perils facing the highly intelligent jumbo flying squid and their importance to marine ecosystems.

This merit award is given annually in memory of Florence Kaufelt, a lifelong friend of animals, to a graduate of our Animal Law LLM Program.

Dr. Rajesh K. Reddy steps into a critical new role as an Assistant Professor of Animal Law at the Center for Animal Law Studies (CALS) at Lewis & Clark Law School.

Professor Joyce Tischler summarizes why the United States Supreme Court’s decision upholding Proposition 12 is monumental for animals.

We are delighted to invite applications for the newly created Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law & Policy LLM Fellowships for the 2023-24 Academic Year.

A new law in Panama recognizes the rights of sea turtles. In our latest blog, our team at the Global Law Alliance for Animals and the Environment breaks down its potential impact.

Our Global Ambassador Program empowers and supports our advanced degree alumni. The application window for our third round is now open!

With the help of a CALS Global Ambassador grant, Gladys Kamasanyu (‘LLM, 20) recently compiled and published a Compendium of Wildlife Laws in Uganda.

CALS Ambassador, Tara Cooley (LLM, ’20), is fostering the creation of Courtroom Animal Advocate Programs across the U.S.

Big cats are in peril. A new federal law and our work to keep big cats in the wild aim to alleviate the crisis.

With support from CALS, leaders of the Lewis & Clark Animal Legal Defense Fund Student Chapter and the Animal Law Review recently traveled to the Big Apple for a weekend devoted to animal law.

Disregarding local opposition and risks to wild animals, a Canadian firm persists in its mission to extract gold from a sensitive ecosystem in Ecuador.

Alice Di Concetto (LLM ’16, France) is charting the path to end the grisly practice of chick and duck killing in the EU through her nonprofit, The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy. She explains how in this blog.

Cat Kelly (2L) has been selected to receive the first annual Law Scholars for Change scholarship to support her courses to obtain a Certificate in Animal Law.

The first cohort of students in our online Animal Law LLM program—13 students from 7 countries—have graduated!

Launched in the Fall of 2022, CALS offers the first advanced legal degree in animal law in the United States for non-lawyers. Learn more about how our MSL—for U.S. and international Bachelor’s degree holders—can advance your animal protection career.

Animal Law MSL Candidate, Dr. Anna Birgitta Wahlberg, leads work to include fundamental animal rights in the Finland Constitution with support from CALS.

Vanessa Gischkow Garbini (Animal Law LLM ’22, Brazil) reflects on her recent experience attending CITES CoP19 and why it gave her hope for addressing the loss of wild animals’ lives and stopping the extinction crisis.

CALS’ alumni share their expertise as animal law leaders from around the world during a 3-day event to workshop their authored chapters for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Global Animal Law.

In this blog, Animal Law LLM Candidate, Tanyaradzwa Muzenda, reflects on why participation of indigenous and local communities from her home country of Zimbabwe in decision-making is critical to protecting wild animals.

We are now welcoming applications for our Animal Law LLM (for lawyers) and our MSL (for non-lawyers)—both offered in-person and online—for Fall 2023.

Yvonne Gurira (’22, LLM, Zimbabwe) shares how she is raising awareness about the detrimental effects of battery cages on chickens through an innovative campaign in Zimbabwe.

Started by students right here at Lewis & Clark Law School, the nation’s premier Animal Law Conference is kicking off today and celebrating 30 years!

On October 11, 2022, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the meat industry’s demand to keep pregnant sows in prison cells no larger than their bodies.

Meet Lyudmila Shegay and Zihao Yu, our CALS Global Ambassadors and Animal Law LLM Alumni, who are advancing legal protections for animals in Kazakhstan and China through education and outreach.

In this blog, Professor Joyce Tischler discusses her work for farmed animals at the Seventh Annual Oxford Summer School on Animal Ethics

The Global Law Alliance has joined theAction for Chimpanzees Initiative, a groundbreaking collaborative program to help reduce the poaching and trafficking of chimpanzees originating from or transiting through West Africa.

The Brooks Institute is relaunching the Competitions with support from the Center for Animal Law Studies at Lewis & Clark Law School and several other law schools.

Yvonne Gurira is named this year’s Outstanding Animal Law LLM Graduate, a merit award given in memory of Florence Kaufelt, a lifelong friend of animals, to a graduate of our Animal Law LLM program.

This year’s award is presented to three Lewis & Clark law students who have demonstrated leadership in the field of animal law.

Ecuador’s Constitutional Court recently issued a landmark decision extending the rights of nature to wild animals. In reaching its decision, the Court cited an opinion piece by Professors Lyman and Fromherz of Lewis & Clark Law School’s Global Law Alliance for Animals and the Environment.

This Earth Day, the theme is Invest in Our Planet. Join us as we share ways you can take action for the planet and the amazing, incredible beings we share it with, in this blog by Professor Joyce Tischler.

More Than A Link: the Washington Supreme Court has unanimously confirmed that animal cruelty can also constitute domestic violence.

The Master of Studies (MSL) in Animal Law degree for non-lawyers is the first of its kind in the U.S. The first cohort of students is planned for Fall 2022.

Alice DiConcetto, LLM ’16, helped to create a new database of laws and policies that impact farmed animals: the Coller Animal Law Forum.

As global leaders meet in Glasgow at COP26, not enough is being done to consider the interests of animals in the conversation.

Tigers have captured the imagination and earned the respect of humankind for thousands of years. Yet these big cats are disappearing at an alarming rate. On International Tiger Day, the Center for Animal Law Studies offers insight into current threats and how we can all help protect these magnificent creatures.

With help from dedicated law students, the Animal Law Litigation Clinic has defeated the Government’s motions to dismiss two lawsuits brought on behalf of a coalition of plaintiffs to challenge the Government’s deregulation of pig slaughterhouses and its failure to protect downed pigs.

A federal district court judge ruled today that a lawsuit, brought by the Animal Law Litigation Clinic challenging a 2019 decision by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to reduce federal oversight and eliminate line speed limits at pig slaughterhouses, can move forward.

Clinical Professor Erica Lyman was quoted as a legal expert in a National Geographic article regarding an oil and gas project that threatens endangered animals and the environment in Africa.

In this blog by law student, Mary Hofmann, she provides an overview of this year’s World Aquatic Animal Day, an annual event launched and hosted by the Aquatic Animal Law Initiative and the Animal Law Clinic.

This fall, the Center for Animal Law Studies (CALS) launched the Global Ambassador Program (GAP), a new initiative to further empower and support our talented Animal Law LLM alumni. We’re excited to announce our 2021-2022 CALS Ambassadors and their projects to pioneer animal law education through advocacy and outreach in their home countries and beyond.

In this blog, Professor of Practice and Animal Law pioneer, Joyce Tischler, shares stories about a few of the memorable farmed animals she’s met over the years, what they’ve taught her, and why she’s hopeful for the future of farmed animal protection.

Annually since 1983, October 2nd is recognized as an international day of observance for farmed animals. At the Center for Animal Law Studies, we’re proud to be at the forefront of farmed animal advocacy every day of the year through our cutting-edge Animal Law Litigation Clinic—the world’s first and only legal clinic devoted to advancing protections for farmed animals. 

The Center for Animal Law Studies at Lewis & Clark Law School has launched the Animal Law Legacy Program—an opportunity for charitable giving designed to sustain the future of our work educating the next generation of lawyers to advance animal protection across the globe.

In this blog piece, Professors Erica Lyman and Nick Fromherz address why the Global North must slam the brakes on the wildlife trade—because human health, wildlife conservation, and international justice demand import moratoria.

Thanks to the far-sighted generosity of an anonymous donor, the Center for Animal Law Studies at Lewis & Clark Law School (CALS) is pleased to announce that it has a commitment of $440,000 to fund our full-time Animal Law Professor of Practice position for four years.

A CALS’ LL.M. Alumna Makes The Case in Glasgow, Scotland.

Pamela Hart became the new Executive Director of the Center for Animal Law Studies (CALS) at Lewis & Clark Law School on June 1, after serving as the Director of Strategic Initiatives for the past year.

The Center for Animal Law Studies (CALS) announced Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) as the inaugural Animal Law Achievement Award Recipient. The award recognizes achievements in the field of animal law, including the creation, enforcement and skillful litigation of animal protection laws. Congressman Blumenauer is an alum of both Lewis & Clark College and Lewis & Clark Law School and a national leader in food policy.

The LC SALDF chapter had the honor of hosting the Center for Animal Law Studies’ first Aquatic Animal Law Initiative Fellow, Rebecca Jenkins, at the first event of spring semester.

Interim President David Ellis, on behalf of the Lewis & Clark community, has issued a statement in response to President Trump’s travel-ban executive order. A community gathering of support will be held on Tuesday, January 31. For more information, click through to the story.

Our Lewis and Clark Law community had the opportunity to hear from Mr. Wayne Pacelle, President and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), when he spoke to a packed house of students, faculty, and members of the general public.

“In an effort to identify the most innovative clinics, The National Jurist magazine invited law schools to nominate clinics unique in subject matter, structure or community served.  We received nominations from 76 law schools and narrowed the list down to 15.”

Professor Hessler weighs in on proposed legislation that would ban Shamu shows in California in this ThinkProgress article.