Biography
Saylor Soinski is an Adjunct Professor at the Center for Animal Law Studies (CALS). She teaches an Emerging Topics in Animal Law course that explores Women, Animals & Activism. She served as the Animal Law Teaching Fellow at CALS for the 2024-25 Academic Year.
Saylor is a California attorney and a 2023 Yale Law School alum. She received her BA in Anthropology from the University of Chicago, where she studied human-animal interaction and conducted an ethnographic study of the Sacramento Sheriff’s Wild Horse Inmate Program. At Yale, Saylor was a Notes & Comments Editor on the Yale Law Journal, Co-President of the Yale Animal Law Society, a Coker Fellow in Constitutional Law, and an Emerging Scholars Fellow for the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law & Policy.
She has published scholarship on topics including the role of scale in human-animal encounters, how the cultural value of animal slaughter may be a barrier to the success of cell-cultured meat, and the possible use of NAGPRA (The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act) to shift management authority over the Yellowstone bison.
Prior to joining CALS, Saylor was a judicial law clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.