Symposium
Every year, Animal Law Review hosts a symposium featuring thoughtful discussions on various topics in animal law. Join us on Friday, March 6, 2026 from 9:00am to 5:10pm PST for our our 15th annual Symposium.
This year’s Animal Law Review Symposium invites advocates and attorneys to challenge corporate practices that treat the exploitation of non-human animals as a necessary cost of doing business. The program explores how consumer protection law, securities regulation, and corporate governance can be used to hold corporations accountable for misleading labels, deceptive disclosures, and harmful supply-chain practices. By reframing core questions of corporate law—who must tell the truth, what risks must be disclosed, and who bears responsibility—the Symposium highlights how legal strategies can recognize non-human animals as stakeholders rather than mere commodities.
This Symposium is a hybrid event open to all in-person and virtual advocates interested in non-human animal protection. In-person attendees are invited to join us for lunch and an evening reception held in partnership with Lewis & Clark’s Animal Legal Defense Fund Student Chapter. Please register here to attend.
Event Schedule
9:00-9:30: Breakfast (McCarty 3)
9:30-10:45am: Keynote Address
- Laura Fox (Climate Change & Animal Agriculture Legal Initiative, Yale Law School)
10:50am-12:05pm: Holding Corporations Accountable for Climate Claims: Lessons from EWG v. Tyson Foods
- Carrie Apfel (Earthjustice)
- Caroline Leary (Environmental Working Group)
- Nathan Leys (FarmSTAND)
- Michael Swistara (Animal Legal Defense Fund)
12:05-1:10pm: Lunch (McCarty 2)
1:15-2:30pm: Shareholder Activism: The Changing Legal Landscape and Opportunities for Impact
- Hana Heineken (ClientEarth)
2:35-3:50pm: Challenging Cultivated Meat Bans*
- Paul Sherman (Institute for Justice)
3:55-5:10: Combating Bluewashing in Aquaculture
- Hira Jaleel (Center for Animal Law Studies)
- Saylor Soinski (Center for Animal Law Studies)
5:10-5:20: Closing Remarks
5:30pm-6:30pm: Evening Reception with LCALDF (Wood Hall Foyer)
*Official title forthcoming.
CLE Credit
The Symposium plans to offer CLE credit, pending approval. Attorneys registered with a state bar other than Oregon’s will need to apply for CLE Credit with their state bar.
Virtual Attendance
Zoom link provided with ticket purchase.
Pricing
General admission will be $25.00. Admission will be free for Lewis & Clark students, teachers, and alumni, as well as for prospective students.
Parking
Parking is available from 7am to 7pm with the purchase of a Day Pass. Parking is allowed at the law school, and we highly encourage carpooling to our events. If the law school lot is full, we suggest parking in the Upper Griswold or Lower Griswold parking lot at the college campus (just a few minutes walk to the law school). For those unfamiliar with the campus, you can access a full campus map here.
Past Symposiums
Past Symposiums have been recorded. You can view details about those events and the recordings here. If you have questions, comments, or suggestions about past or upcoming Symposiums, please contact Nicole Wood, Animal Law Review’s Symposium Editor, at sym-animallaw@lclark.edu.
Animal Law Review is located in Wood Hall on the Law Campus.
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Editor in Chief
Camille Bond
eic-animallaw@lclark.edu
Managing Editor
Katherine Engelken
me-animallaw@lclark.edu
Executive Editors
Brittany Bennett
Dennis Hall
ee-animallaw@lclark.edu