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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.
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LEAP Announces Three Student Grant Program Recipients for 2024
The Law, Ethics & Animals Program announced three student recipients of the LEAP Student Grant Program.
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Q&A: Former LEAP Student Fellow Alisa White ’23 on Local Policy Approaches to Wild Animal Welfare
A new, first-of-its-kind policy brief by scholars at New York University School of Law’s Guarini Center on Environmental Energy & Land Use Law, New York University’s Wild Animal Welfare Program, and Yale Law School’s Law, Ethics, & Animals Program identifies how cities can incorporate wild animal welfare into institutions, planning process, and policies on land use and the built environment.