Farmed Animal Protection Project I

Farmed Animal Protection Project I - Professor Hira Jaleel

• Course Number: LAW-798
• Course Type: Highly Specialized and Experiential
• Credits: 3
• Enrollment Limit: 15
• Description: The Farmed Animal Protection Project concentrates on farmed animal protection and lawyering skills.. The class approaches farmed animal protection from a holistic lens, incorporating animal law, human rights law and environmental law topics. Additionally, the course focuses on all types of farmed animals, including aquatic animals and insects. The project has an in-class component, and students will also spend time working on projects out-of-class. Students also benefit from guest lectures by experts working in the farmed animal advocacy space. Class meets once a week for two hours.

Students will work on existing projects and / or create an individual project in the field of farmed animal protection law. Projects may also relate to intersecting issues such as food system reform, climate change, environmental protection, environmental justice, workers rights, and more. Students are expected to spend 10 hours each week on these projects. Examples of existing and new projects include:

●Researching and drafting white papers on farmed animal protection issues;
● Filing Freedom of Information Act requests to further public education or litigation efforts by other advocates;
● Drafting new domestic and international model farmed animal protection legislation;
● Submitting public comments on proposed legislation or rules affecting farmed animals;
● Drafting and submitting petitions for rulemaking to the USDA and/or citizen petitions to the FDA;
● Drafting and publishing legal op-eds on farmed animal legal issues; and
● Researching and drafting student law review notes on farmed animal protection law.
As a non-clinical experiential course, the project does not have clients. This structure gives the project academic freedom and allows the fruits of the project to be shared with the world at large.

• Prerequisite or Corequisite: Animal Law Fundamentals (previously offered as Animals in the Law)
• Evaluation Method: Credit/No Credit based on an individual project, performance on in-class exercises, and attendance.
• Capstone: No
• WIE: No

• Course length: Absent extenuating circumstances (for example, if a student is graduating at the end of Fall semester), students must also enroll in Farmed Animal Protection Project II when it is offered in the same academic year. There is no application process.