Publications and Talks

Faculty, Student & Affiliate Publications

• Meredith Barges & Viveca Morris, Building Safer Cities for Birds: How Cities Are Leading the Way on Bird-Friendly Building Policy, Yale Bird-Friendly Building Initiative, August 2023.
• Doug Kysar, "It’s time for climate change to reach the International Court of Justice," The Hill, December 14, 2022.
• Zoe Robertson, "How Electrification Distanced Poultry Farmers from their Flocks," Edge Effects, November 22, 2022.
• Manny Rutinel & Sebastian Quaade, “Reducing Animal Agriculture Emissions: The Viability of a Farm Transition Carbon Offset Protocol,” 52 Environmental Law Reporter, 2022.
• Emily Tian, "Pigs on the Docket: How the Pork Industry’s Supreme Court Case Against Prop 12 May Shape the Future of Farm Animal Welfare," Data for Progress, October 27, 2022.
• Laurie Sellars (with Kimberly Bernotas and Jeff Sebo), “One Health, COVID-19, and a Right to Health for Human and Nonhuman Animals,” Anthroozoology Studies: Animal Life and Human Culture, October 2022, 35-58.
• Meredith Barges (with Craig Repasz), "Opinion: It’s time to dim our lights for migrating birds," CT Insider, October 4, 2022.
• Alisa White, “Rising Tides-Toward a Federal Climate Resilience Fund,” 52 Environmental Law Reporter 10703, September 2022.
• Daina Bray, “A Primer on Animal Agriculture, Methane, and Climate Action,” Juriste Internacionale, 2022.
• Daina Bray (with Paula Cardoso and Michael Swistara), “Harms to Animals, People, and the Environment: Legislative and Litigation Efforts Around the World to End the Live Export of Farmed Animals,” ABA International Animal Law Committee Newsletter, Winter/Spring 2022.
• Viveca Morris, “The Cow-Shaped Hole in Biden’s Climate Plan,” Politico, November 16, 2021.
• Daina Bray (with Paula Cardoso), “Brazilian Supreme Court Upholds Constitutionality of Rio de Janeiro’s Ban on Animal Testing of Cosmetics,” ABA International Law Section Year In Review, 2021.
• Kristy Ferraro, Anthony Ferraro, and Nathalie Sommer, "Challenges facing cross-disciplinary collaboration in conservation ethics." Conservation Science and Practice, August 26, 2021.
• Ryan Clemens: "Safe Harbor: The  Proposed Cape Cod Seal Cull’s Illegality Under the MMPA, Ineffectiveness, and Cruelty." Vermont Law Review, June 13, 2021.
• Viveca Morris, "Why meat and dairy corporations are the Achilles' heel of Biden's climate plan." Los Angeles Times, May 16, 2021.
• Manny Rutinel and Sebastian Quaade, "Animal Agriculture and Emission Reductions: The Viability of a Farm Transition Offset Protocol." Preliminary report, April 24, 2021.
• Doug Kysar, Climate Change Litigation in the Asia Pacific (Cambridge University Press, 2020) (co-edited with Jolene Lin)
• Viveca Morris, "Break Up the Modern Meat Trust," Law and Political Economy Project Blog, November 24, 2020.
• Viveca Morris and Jonathan Lovvorn, "Five actions Biden should take to build a more humane food system," November 17, 2020.
• Viveca Morris, "Why Yale's Evans Hall is a Death Trap for Birds and What Can Be Done About It," October 2020.
• Lindsay Stern (PhD 2023), What Can Bonobos Teach Us about the Nature of Language?. Smithsonian Magazine, July 2020.
• Viveca Morris, "COVID-19 shows that what we’re doing to animals is killing us, too." Los Angeles Times, April 2, 2020.
• Doug Kysar, "Charles Reich’s Unfinished Work.” The Yale Law Journal, March 16, 2020.
• Christopher Ewell (JD 2022). An evaluation of Regional Fisheries Management Organization at-sea compliance monitoring and observer programs. Marine Policy, February 17, 2020.
• Lindsay Stern (PhD 2023). The Study of Animal Languages (novel). Viking. February 19, 2019.
• Lingxi Chenyang (JD 2020). Is Meat the New Tobacco? Regulating Food Demand in the Age of Climate Change. Environmental Law Reporter, Vol. 49, No. 4, February 5, 2019.
• Doug Kysar, Living with Owning, 92 Indiana L. J. 1 (2017) (with Matt Ampleman)
• Doug Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity (Yale University Press, 2010)
• Jonathan Lovvorn , Clean Food: The Next Clean Energy Revolution, 36 Yale L. & Pol'y Rev. 283 (2018).
• Jonathan Lovvorn, Climate Change Beyond Environmentalism Part II: Near-Term Climate Mitigation in a Post-Regulatory Era (December 31, 2017). Georgetown International Environmental Law Review (GIELR), Vol. 30, 2018.
• Jonathan Lovvorn, Climate Change Beyond Environmentalism Part I: Intersectional Threats and the Case for Collective Action (April 4, 2017). Georgetown International Environmental Law Review (GIELR), Vol. 29, No. 1, 2016.
• Jonathan Lovvorn, California Proposition 2: A Watershed Moment for Animal Law (2009) (with Nancy Perry)