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LEAP Welcomes New Animal Agriculture Accountability Project Research Scholar

Ann Linder joins LEAP as a research scholar in its Animal Agriculture Accountability Project.
LEAP Welcomes New Animal Agriculture Accountability Project Research Scholar
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Environmental Research Letters

Early U.S. Meat Industry Knowledge And Response To Global Warming (link is external)1

A recent study co-authored by LEAP Executive Director Viveca Morris outlines how the U.S. livestock industry knew about its role in global warming and sought to obstruct efforts to address its climate harms since at least 1989.

Early U.S. Meat Industry Knowledge And Response To Global Warming (link is external)
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LEAP Invites Applicants for 2025-26 Litigation and Program Fellow

The Law, Environment & Animals Program (LEAP) at Yale Law School invites applications for a full-time litigation and program fellow for the 2025-26 academic year.
LEAP Invites Applicants for 2025-26 Litigation and Program Fellow
LEAP Student Fellow & Grant Recipient Ilaria Cimadori

Q&A: LEAP Student Fellow & Grant Recipient Ilaria Cimadori Examines Farmed Animal Welfare in the Gene-Editing Era

LEAP Student Fellow & Grant Recipient Ilaria Cimadori discusses her research and what legal reforms are needed to better protect animals’ interests.
Q&A: LEAP Student Fellow & Grant Recipient Ilaria Cimadori Examines Farmed Animal Welfare in the Gene-Editing Era
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CT Insider

Ellington Dairy Farm Removes ’Happy‘ Cow Language from Website (link is external)2

Clinical Lecturer in Law Daina Bray discussed animal agriculture and sustainability. 

Ellington Dairy Farm Removes ’Happy‘ Cow Language from Website (link is external)
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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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Sentient

How Overconsumption Affects the Environment and Health, Explained (link is external)3

LEAP Litigation Fellow Laura Fox discusses the drivers and harms of overconsumption and how consumers can reduce their environmental footprints.

How Overconsumption Affects the Environment and Health, Explained (link is external)
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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

Links

  1. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adb6c0
  2. https://www.ctinsider.com/business/article/ct-oakridge-dairy-peta-happy-cows-20040653.php
  3. https://sentientmedia.org/overconsumption/