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Q&A with Manny Rutinel ’22 on Carbon Offsets and Farming
Manny Rutinel ’22 speaks about his work on a report to implement carbon offset credits for farmers.
Q&A: Nathalie Sommer on How Differences in Grasshopper Personality Affect Ecosystems
Law, Ethics & Animals Program (LEAP) Student Fellow Nathalie Sommer, a Ph.D. candidate at the Yale School of the Environment, showed how individual differences in grasshopper personality could cause ecosystem-level changes.
Q&A with Ted Hamilton on Climate Change and the Courts
LEAP Student Fellow Ted Hamilton answers questions about climate change and the courts.
LEAP Hosts Daniel Ho on Machine Learning
LEAP hosted Dr. Daniel Ho for a presentation on his research on machine learning.
The Enduring Racism of American Agriculture
The Law, Ethics & Animals Program (LEAP) hosted Professor Thomas Mitchell and farmer Carlton Sanders as part of LEAP’s One Health Speaker Series.
How to Prevent Future Pandemics
The Law, Ethics & Animals Program (LEAP) hosted disease ecologist and veterinarian Dr. Jonathan Epstein to discuss the rise of new zoonotic diseases and the multispecies future of pandemic prevention.
Why Wild Animals Should Have Property Rights
The Law, Ethics & Animals Program (LEAP) hosted Karen Bradshaw to discuss her recent book, “Wildlife as Property Owners: A New Conception of Animal Rights,” which argues for extending a legal right of property ownership to animals.
Q&A: Hope Bigda-Peyton YSE ’20, on State-Level Biogas Legislation and Environmental Justice
Last spring, Hope Bigda-Peyton, Yale School of the Environment ’20, was part of the inaugural cohort of graduate and professional school students who participated in the Law, Ethics & Animal Program’s Climate, Animal, Food, and Environmental Law & Policy Lab (CAFE Lab). CAFE Lab challenges teams of students to develop novel strategies to compel industrial food producers to account for externalities in the agricultural system that impact people, animals, and the environment. As part of her work for the Lab, Bigda-Peyton was one of five coauthors of a report titled, “Let’s Talk About Biogas…Even...