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Ela Leshem ’20 Joins Fordham Law Faculty — and Animal Law’s Scholarly Growth
Ela Leshem ’20, recently appointed Associate Professor of Law at Fordham, discusses her work with the Law, Ethics & Animals Program.
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Ephemeral Streams Likely to Have Significant Effect on U.S. Water Quality
A new study co-authored by Yale researchers — including Joseph M. Field '55 Professor of Law Douglas Kysar — quantifies the consequences of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that weakened the Clean Water Act.
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Q&A: LEAP Student Fellow Maggie Wang Urges Collective Animal Personhood
Maggie Wang ’25 makes the case for colonies of insects, flocks of birds, schools of fishes, and packs of mammals having distinct legal recognition.
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LEAP Invites Applicants for a Litigation Fellow Focused on Animal Agriculture and Climate Change
The Litigation Fellow will join the Climate Change & Animal Agriculture Litigation Initiative.