Animal Law Clinic I

Animal Law Clinic I 

• Course Number: LAW-788
• Course Type: Highly Specialized & Experiential
• Credits: 3
• Enrollment Limit: 8
• Description:  The Animal Law Clinic serves as a comprehensive training ground for JD and Animal Law LLM students interested in policy, administrative, and transactional work that benefits animals through the representation of clients. The Clinic will provide critical opportunities for students to gain real-world experience working with and on behalf of clients, as well as to hone their professional and lawyering skills. Clinic students should expect to undertake rigorous legal research, analysis, and writing projects that will benefit animals and further develop the field of animal law. Broadly, projects undertaken by Clinic students will implicate legislative, administrative, policy-related, and transactional legal issues, research intended to support litigation brought by others, advocacy, negotiation, mediation, practical legal ethics, strategic advocacy, and more. Where appropriate, students should expect to work with diverse stakeholder groups, including but not limited to animal advocacy organizations, attorneys, scientists, community leaders, veterinarians, and economists, among others.

Students participate in a weekly two-hour class covering substantive issues and lawyering skills, meet weekly with Clinic faculty to discuss their work, and spend an average of ten hours per week on Clinic work.

Students must also enroll in Animal Law Clinic II when it is offered in the same academic year.

Interested JD students must submit this application form by May 15th to be considered.

• Prerequisite or Corequisite: Animal Law Fundamentals 
• Evaluation Method: Credit/no credit based on written work completed in the course
• Capstone: No
• WIE: Depends; Professor consent is needed.