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LEAP Announces Spring 2025 Speaker Series

The Law, Environment & Animals Program’s next series includes talks on protecting wildlife abundance, anti-democracy in the American food system, and climate litigation in Asia.
LEAP Announces Spring 2025 Speaker Series
Thomas Peterson

Q&A: LEAP Student Fellow Thomas Peterson ’26 Explains How Shareholders Can Push For Sustainability

Thomas Peterson ’26 discusses using shareholder advocacy to push companies to address greenhouse gas emissions from industrial animal agriculture.
Q&A: LEAP Student Fellow Thomas Peterson ’26 Explains How Shareholders Can Push For Sustainability
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LEAP Invites Applicants for an Animal Agriculture Accountability Project Fellow

This LEAP fellow will prepare an assessment of potential litigation strategies challenging industrial animal agriculture’s negative externalities.
LEAP Invites Applicants for an Animal Agriculture Accountability Project Fellow
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LEAP Invites Applications for 2025 Student Grant Program

Applications for the grants, open to Yale graduate students and undergrads, are due March 28.
LEAP Invites Applications for 2025 Student Grant Program
Daniel Blokh

Q&A: LEAP Student Grantee Daniel Blokh Remembers Laika the Space Dog

Daniel Blokh ’24 YC used his LEAP student grant to make a short documentary about the Soviet dog who became the first living creature in space.
Q&A: LEAP Student Grantee Daniel Blokh Remembers Laika the Space Dog
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Sentient Media

How Trump’s USDA, EPA & HHS Appointees Will Affect Food Systems

LEAP Litigation Fellow Laura Fox discusses how the incoming administration's cabinet appointees might impact U.S. food systems.

How Trump’s USDA, EPA & HHS Appointees Will Affect Food Systems
Laura Fox

Q&A: LEAP’s Laura Fox Challenges Industrial Animal Agriculture and Advocates for Animals

Litigation Fellow Laura Fox discusses her background, work with LEAP, and advice for students interested in animal and environmental law.
Q&A: LEAP’s Laura Fox Challenges Industrial Animal Agriculture and Advocates for Animals
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Civil Eats

Op-ed: ‘Blue Foods’ May Not Save the World — A Commentary by Laurie Sellars

LEAP Postgraduate Fellow Laurie Sellars and New York University's Dr. Becca Franks argue that humanity must proceed with caution in pursuing ocean farming given its dewilding risks.

Op-ed: ‘Blue Foods’ May Not Save the World — A Commentary by Laurie Sellars
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LEAP Celebrates Five Years at Yale Law School with Vision for the Future

LEAP turns five and becomes the Law, Environment, and Animals Program.
LEAP Celebrates Five Years at Yale Law School with Vision for the Future
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BBC

Marvels of Life and Death

LEAP Postgraduate Fellow Laurie Sellars and New York University's Dr. Becca Franks discussed their research examining the dewilding impacts of marine aquaculture.

Marvels of Life and Death