Daijah is an Animal Law LLM Student and Center for Animal Law Studies Academic Fellow.
Her animal law journey began during the final year of her LLB, when two enduring concerns converged: the gap between law and justice, and the instrumental treatment of animals. Through her relationship with Rambo, her childhood companion, Daijah came to recognise the depth, individuality, and wonder of nonhuman life — qualities that legal and social abstractions can obscure. That understanding continues to ground and inspire her work, driving the question at its heart: what would law and society look like if they truly recognised and responded to animal sentience?
Daijah completed her LLB and LLM at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In the absence of animal law courses, she built an interdisciplinary path across critical legal theory, environmental law, human rights, and social justice. Together, these courses shaped the critical, posthumanist, and intersectional lens she brings to animal law.
Daijah’s theses form the foundation of her scholarship. In “Beyond Systemic Anthropocentrism: A Posthumanist Approach to Factory Farming’s Implications for Nonhuman Animal Welfare,” Daijah examines the structures sustaining farmed animals’ suffering. This received the LSE Dean’s Medal for Best Law Undergraduate Dissertation, and she presented her research at the UK Animal Law Conference 2025. Her LLM thesis, “The Sentience Paradox in Animal Law: From Anthropocentrism to Sentientist Jurisprudence,” examines what she conceptualises as the “Sentience Paradox”: the contradiction between law’s recognition of animal sentience and its continued instrumental treatment of animals. She presented this work at the UK Animal Law Conference 2026.
Alongside her scholarship, Daijah worked at the intersection of animal and environmental law as a Legal Research Assistant at UCL and a Student Director of London’s first Intercollegiate Environmental Law Clinic.
At Lewis & Clark, Daijah is deepening her scholarship, practice, and engagement with the animal law community in pursuit of her long-term goal: transforming legal, political, and social systems to meaningfully recognise and respond to animal sentience.