Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Q&A: Lexi Smith ’22 on the Promise and Peril of Geoengineering
Lexi Smith ’22 speaks about her research as part of the Law, Ethics & Animals Program's Advanced Climate, Animal, Food, and Environmental Law and Policy (CAFE) Lab.
Friday, December 18, 2020
LEAP and TAP to Cohost Conference on Antitrust and the Food System on January 16
Yale Law School’s Law, Ethics & Animals Program and Yale School of Management’s Thurman Arnold Project will cohost an online conference on today's food system on January 16, 2021.
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Break Up the Modern Meat Trust — A Commentary by Viveca Morris
Law & Political Economy Project Blog
Viveca Morris is an Associate Research Scholar in Law and the Executive Director of the Law, Ethics & Animals Program at Yale Law School.
Thursday, November 19, 2020
10 enormously consequential things Biden can do without the Senate
Vox
LEAP Faculty Co-Director Jonathan Lovvorn is quoted in Vox about how the Biden administration can confront factory farming through executive orders and agency actions.
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Five actions Biden should take to build a more humane food system — A Commentary by Viveca Morris and Jonathan Lovvorn
The Hill
Viveca Morris is Executive Director of the Law, Ethics & Animals Program at Yale Law School. Jonathan Lovvorn is Faculty Co-Director of the Law, Ethics, & Animal Program.
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Biden could do a lot to fight factory farming even without Congress
Vox
LEAP’s Jonathan Lovvorn and Viveca Morris are quoted in Vox about what a tough stance on factory farming could look like under the Biden administration.
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Tom Philpott Speaks on the Impending Collapse of American Agriculture
The Law, Ethics & Animals Program (LEAP) hosted investigative journalist Tom Philpott for a discussion of his new book, “Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It.”
Monday, November 9, 2020
The Case for Climate Change
A new book coedited by Professor Douglas Kysar and Jolene Lim is the first academic examination of climate change litigation in the Asia Pacific region.
Thursday, November 5, 2020
Q&A: Alisa White ’22 on How Elite Law Firms Exacerbate Climate Change
A Q&A with Alisa White ’22 about Law Students for Climate Accountability (LSCA), an organization dedicated to holding the legal industry accountable for its role in global climate change.
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
LEAP Panel Addresses Global Insect Population Decline
The Law, Ethics & Animals Program (LEAP) hosted a discussion on the looming “insect apocalypse,” as global declines in the largest animal phylum pose serious threats to worldwide ecosystem health.