Global Law Alliance for Animals and the Environment (GLA)

The GLA continues to advocate for transformational outcomes in international animal and environmental law. 

West Africa judges, prosecutors and trainers gather after a five-day Mutual Legal Assistance workshop in Accra, Ghana. West Africa judges, prosecutors and trainers gather after a five-day Mutual Legal Assistance workshop in Accra, Ghana.

The GLA continues to advocate for transformational outcomes in international animal and environmental law. The many cases and projects that the clinic worked on includes the publication of a report on the rate of criminalization of environmental harm in national legislation around the world, a review of the intersection between the international protection of wetlands and the impacts of animal agriculture, trainings for judges and prosecutors across West Africa on the use of mutual legal assistance, and an effort to reduce the climate impacts of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

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