And Another NYSBA-Related Thing

David Cassuto From the email (h/t Cari Rinker): The Committee on Animals and the Law is always looking for law students who are interested in making a difference for animals and people. Students can help coordinate our student activities, and actively participate, like our members and volunteers, in our important work. We need assistance with [...]

NY State Bar Assn. Animal Law Writing Competition

David Cassuto Look alive, law students! 2011 NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE ON ANIMALS, LAW STUDENT WRITING COMPETITION. Get the full 411 here.

ALDF Scholarships for Law Students

David Cassuto Heads up, Law Students! From the ALDF website: ALDF Advancement of Animal Law Scholarships The Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) Advancement of Animal Law Scholarships are available to second- and third-year law student members of our student chapters and will be awarded based upon demonstrated commitment to ALDF’s mission, “to advance the interests and [...]

AALS Animal Law Panel

David Cassuto Ok, there’s much to catch up on and this will be the first post of several.  Let’s start with the AALS Animal Law Section panel held last Saturday in San Francisco.  The conference in general was quite good.  Despite a labor action at the main conference hotel, which caused many sections (including ours) [...]

NYU Launches Animal Studies Initiative

David Cassuto Oh to be young again.  NYU is launching an Animal Studies Initiative.  NYU students will soon be able to minor in animal studies and the initiative will also create opportunities for interdisciplinary courses, conferences and other research projects.  Professor Dale Jamieson, who heads NYU’s Environmental Studies Program and has written much that needs [...]

Compassionate Children’s Literature

From the email: For immediate release: A Morning of Compassionate Children’s Literature with Farm Sanctuary at the Community Bookstore of Park Slope BROOKLYN, NY (October 9, 2010)—The Community Bookstore of Park Slope is pleased to host “A Morning of Compassionate Children’s Literature with Farm Sanctuary.” The event takes place Sunday, October 17th at 11am and [...]

CT Animal Law CLE

David Cassuto From the email:

Animal Law CLE Opportunity

David Cassuto Some farm animal-related CLE from the good folks at the ABA.  Note the intriguing speaker lineup. Farmed Animal Welfare and Consumer Labeling Issues To Register: http://www.abanet.org/tips/market/10SepAnimalLawWeb.html Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=146567802042349&ref=mf Increasingly, consumers concerned about the welfare of farm animals, and related health, food safety, and environmental issues, are seeking to purchase animal-derived foods that [...]

Powerful Final Day at the Second World Conference on Bioethics and Animal Rights

Elizabeth Bennett The last day of the Second World Conference on Bioethics and Animal Rights began with a heartfelt lecture by conference organizer Heron Santana on climate change and animal rights. Professor Santana spoke about the fact that citizens of Brazil are beginning to eat more meat and the country exports an increasing amount of [...]

Fresh Faced Student at Animal Law Conference in Brazil

Gloribelle Perez Wednesday night (8.25.10), I had the honor of attending the opening reception of the Second World Conference on Bioethics and Animal Rights, which was held in the first capital of Brazil—Salvador, Bahia.  From a live band to Bahia’s movers and shakers of the political arena, the opening reception was superb.  Professor Cassuto, a [...]

Live From the Second World Conference on Bioethics and Animal Rights in Brazil

Elizabeth Bennett DAY 1 Ola from the Second World Conference on Bioethics and Animal Rights.  First, I would like to say that I am very thankful that Pace Law School and the Center for Environmental Legal Studies provided me with the opportunity to attend this prestigious and world-renowned conference and for all of the conference [...]

International Animal Law — A Website

David Cassuto Here (with a hat tip to the Animal Law Blog) is an interesting and useful site focusing on International Animal Law.

“Sex, Gender and Species” Conference at Wesleyan University

David Cassuto This interdisciplinary conference looks like it will be mighty good. Wesleyan University will be hosting a conference called “Sex, Gender and Species” on February 25 and 26, 2011. The purpose of this conference is to foreground the relations between feminist and animal studies and to examine the real and theoretical problems that are [...]

Pennsylvania Bar Institute Animal Law Conference

David Cassuto A conference and CLE opportunity of interest, particularly but not only for those in Pennsylvania: 7th Annual Animal Law Conference > Register now or learn more Now in its seventh year, PBI is pleased to present this popular seminar which continues to attract new and curious attendees each year and which has a [...]

Teaching Animal Law in Brazil

David Cassuto Our hero´s dance card is looking pretty full.  I will be teaching a short course on animal law here at FGV Direito Rio next week.  Tell all your friends.   Before I do that, however, I will go to Salvador tomorrow to spend a few days talking about animal and environmental law with the [...]

Animal Law Continues to Grow

David Cassuto It´s always nice to see an article about the rise and spread of animal law.  Here´s one worth reading. h/t Florida Animal Law

Animal Law in Spain

David Cassuto Freshly returned from Buenos Aires, I am.  It´s a great city even if I did have some problems accessing this site from there (hence the lull).  In any case, for those following my language struggles, you´ll be pleased to know that 4 days speaking Spanish has rendered me all but incoherent in Portuguese.  And [...]

Animals are Family Too

Seth Victor           This past week I attended the 2010 New Jersey State Bar Association Annual Meeting and Convention in Atlantic City. I had a very enjoyable time, and while I think part of holding the event in Atlantic City is to entice lawyers to come and make a holiday of it, I was there [...]

The 2010 Animal Law Moot

David Cassuto I’m in Boston — well, Cambridge actually – at a cute little law school tucked away in a modest, unassuming university they have up here.  This year marks my seventh consecutive year judging the annual Animal Law Moot Court Competition, an event staged by Lewis & Clark’s Center for Animal Law Studies in collaboration with [...]

ABA-TIPS Event in Chicago

From the email: ABA-TIPS Humane Education Project – Chicago Humane Education Advocates Reaching Teachers (HEART), the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), and Northwestern Student Animal Legal Defense Fund (SALDF) chapter are pleased to invite you to a free training workshop for the Humane Education Project of the American Bar Association’s TIPS Animal Law Committee. The [...]