Farmed Animal Protection Project

The Farmed Animal Protection Project was launched in the fall of 2022 and expands experiential learning to advance protections and advocacy for farmed animals

 

Industrial animal agriculture, including aquaculture, is extremely detrimental for the well-being of animals, human health, and the environment. The Farmed Animal Protection Project provides an exciting opportunity to advance the knowledge and skill of our increasingly diverse student body to protect farmed animals. While clinics are limited to law students and LLM students, this new format for the Farmed Animal Protection Project enables our non-lawyer advanced degree MSL students to participate in advocacy as well.

The Farmed Animal Protection Project (FAPP) offers JD, LLM and MSL students a two-semester experiential learning opportunity to concentrate on farmed animal protection, and to develop lawyering and other professional skills used by farmed animal protection advocates. The class approaches farmed animal protection from a holistic lens, incorporating animal law, human rights law and environmental law topics. Additionally, the class focuses on all types of farmed animals, including aquatic animals. 

In-class exercises teach farmed animal protection legal and advocacy strategies and skills helpful to advocates working to protect the interests of farmed animals. Students also benefit from guest lectures by advocates working in the farmed animal advocacy space. Students also work on existing projects and / or create an individual project in the field of farmed animal protection law, as well as intersecting issues such as food system reform, climate change, environmental protection, environmental justice, workers’ rights, and more. 

As a non-clinical experiential course, FAPP does not have clients. This structure gives the Project academic freedom and allows the fruits of the Project to be shared with the world at large.

Visit the Law Courses Catalog for course details, prerequisites, enrollment and more. Please note that the Animals in the Law course is a co-requisite.