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National Justice for Animals Week
Feb 23

National Justice for Animals Week

February 23, 2025 – February 27, 2025

The Animal Legal Defense Fund’s National Justice for Animals Week is an annual event dedicated to raising public awareness around crimes committed against animals. This includes learning what criminal cruelty is under the law, and how we can all work to build stronger laws, prevent criminal cruelty, hold abusers accountable, and vindicate the interests of animal cruelty victims. Each year’s event features suggested actions and a representative — an animal whose experience with the justice system helps illustrate the law’s…

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Jun 23

Litigating & Legislating for Animal Rights Seminar: Strategic Litigation for Chickens & Hens

June 23, 2025

For more information, please visit: https://lu.ma/p2rl9rza

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Jul 30

ICARE Summer Course: “Bridging Animal Rights Theory & Practice”

July 30, 2025

About the Summer Course “Bridging Animal Rights Theory and Practice” is a unique 8-week live, online course that delves into the philosophical foundations of animal rights law. Designed for students, legal professionals, advocates, and scholars, this course offers a critical exploration of how moral and political philosophy shape contemporary legal debates and reform agendas for animals. Taught by renowned animal philosopher Dr Paulina Siemieniec, this course provides a rare opportunity to study with a leading scholar whose work lies at the intersection of care ethics, political theory, and…

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Feb 13

Factory Farm Moratorium Lunch and Learn

February 13, 2025

LC ALDF is collaborating with Food & Water Watch and Stand Up to Factory Farms to institute a factory farm moratorium within Oregon’s groundwater management areas (SB 80). Chronic exposure to nitrate-contaminated wells, stemming in part from poor waste management practices used by nearby factory farms, are linked to a myriad of health risks and has jeopardized access to clean, safe drinking water for nearby communities. Attend this lunchtime talk to learn about the bill and how to help. Zoom registration…

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Feb 24

Animal Law Week: Advancing Labor Rights for Poultry Workers

February 24, 2025

Magaly Licolli, Executive Director of Venceremos, will discuss the intersection of labor and animal law, focusing on the abuses within the industrial animal agriculture system. She will highlight Venceremos’ efforts in organizing poultry workers and offer insights for law students interested in animal, food, and worker justice. Lunch provided by ALDF and CALS! Zoom registration here.

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Feb 25

Animal Law Week: The Predation Problem and Animal Agency

February 25, 2025

Ethicists have long struggled with the predation problem: do we have a duty to prevent suffering caused by animals? The prevailing response finds no duty because animals lack moral agency. Saylor Soinski, CALS Animal Law Teaching Fellow, reconsiders the predation problem in light of new research on animal language, cognition, and autonomy. Lunch provided! Zoom registration here.

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Feb 26

Animal Law Week: MeatOut

February 26, 2025

Join LC ALDF in the LRC during lunch for our annual MeatOut event to experience some of Portland’s amazing plant-based restaurants. We hold MeatOut each year to celebrate Portland’s vegan food scene and to encourage our campus community to consider plant-based options when they’re making food choices in their daily lives. MeatOut acknowledges that what we eat has an impact on people, planet, and animals, and that choosing more compassionate and sustainable food options is also delicious.

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Feb 27

Art Reception with Jo-Anne McArthur

February 27, 2025

Join LC ALDF for an evening of art and refreshment that celebrates the power of art to inspire a vision of a better world for all and challenge the mainstream paradigm of how we perceive and value animals. Attendees will connect with local artists and photojournalists, explore their impactful work, and enjoy a special presentation by award-winning photographer, author, and photo editor Jo-Anne McArthur, founder and president of We Animals. The event will feature a raffle for early-bird ticket buyers to…

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Mar 06

Using Your Law Degree to Help Animals

March 6, 2025

Northwestern Law’s Animal Legal Defense Fund Student Chapter is excited to have a discussion with Nick Arrivo and Connor Kolet. Nick and Connor are both attorneys practicing at Humane World for Animals. They will discuss their careers, cases, and experience in animal law, and how you can use litigation and legislative reform to improve the lives of animals.

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Mar 07

Animal Welfare and Public Health Symposium

March 7, 2025

During this symposium, speakers will delve deep into the critical issues that arise at the crossroads of animal welfare and public health and well-being. The keynote speaker is Leah Garcés, Founder of Transfarmation and CEO & President of Mercy for Animals. Attendees will hear a panel discussion on CAFOs, Public Health and Zoonotic Disease followed by a keynote presentation on Transfarmation.  There is no charge to attend the symposium, and the registration link is included below with in-person and virtual attendance options. Please register…

Legal Issues in Animal Agriculture: Litigation & Advocacy
Feb 27

Legal Issues in Animal Agriculture: Litigation & Advocacy

February 27, 2025

Attend the first in a series of webinars sponsored by the UIC Animal Law Program. Moderated by Professor Conley Wouters, this panel discussion features three animal lawyers whose innovative work advances farmed animal welfare. The session will explore novel legal strategies to address farmed animal cruelty, “humanewashing” and misleading advertising, and emerging issues in animal agriculture. Panelists include: Brooke Dekolf, former Animal Welfare Fellow, Richman Law & Policy; Inaugural Fellow, Law, Ethics, & Animal Program at Yale Law School Kathryn Evans, Staff…

A Conversation & Screening With: Dr. Emily Trunnell
Mar 06

A Conversation & Screening With: Dr. Emily Trunnell

March 6, 2025

Join the UIC Law Animal Law Program on Thursday, March 6, at 12 p.m. CST for a screening and conversation by Dr. Emily Trunnell, Director of PETA’s Science Advancement and Outreach division. Dr. Trunnell will screen Test Subjects, a short documentary in which she is featured. Directed by Alex Lockwood, the film explores the journeys of three scientists who faced immense pressure to experiment on animals in their graduate studies—and who now advocate for a more humane, effective scientific paradigm that…

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Feb 19

From Fur to Faux: SALDF x Fashion Law Collab

February 19, 2025

Join us on Wednesday February 19th for an exciting collaboration between Fashion Law and USF SALDF! We will discuss the history of fur and leather, and how animal welfare laws do not protect animals used for clothing. Additionally, we will discuss the exciting ethical advancements to fashion, and how animal friendly fashion is here to stay. This is our February Animal Law Discussion, and as always, we will have a delicious vegan lunch for you to enjoy!