Animal Law Scholar Named Assistant Professor of Law

This fall, alum Dr. Rajesh K. Reddy ’17 began his critical new role as Assistant Professor of Animal Law for the Center for Animal Law Studies (CALS) at Lewis & Clark Law School. It is one of only a handful of tenure-track animal law professor positions in the country.

Dr. Reddy was hired as a Visiting Professor in 2017; his role expanded to oversee Lewis & Clark’s Advanced Degree Animal Law Program and then its Global Animal Law Program. He will continue to serve as the Director of the Animal Law Program.

He is a co-drafter of the Convention of Animal Protection for Public Health, Animal Well-Being, and the Environment, and worked with the Animal Legal Defense Fund to push for discovery rights for a group of hippopotamuses facing mass slaughter in Colombia. This resulted in a U.S. court order recognizing the legal personhood of nonhuman animals.

“If not for the CALS, I would never have known that the field of animal law even existed. I couldn’t be more excited to begin writing this next chapter in my career.”