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Building a Bird-Friendly Yale, With Campus as a Living Lab (link is external)1

The Law, Ethics & Animals Program at Yale Law School and Yale partners are finding solutions to a major biodiversity challenge: the more than 1 billion birds killed by window collisions every year in North America.
Building a Bird-Friendly Yale, With Campus as a Living Lab (link is external)
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LEAP Seeks Litigation Fellow Focused on Animal Agriculture and Climate Change

The Law, Ethics, and Animals Program invites applications for a Litigation Fellow to join the Climate Change & Animal Agriculture Litigation Initiative.
LEAP Seeks Litigation Fellow Focused on Animal Agriculture and Climate Change
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LEAP Announces Spring Events for 2022-23 Speaker Series

Speakers this term are animal behavior and intelligence expert Lori Marino and reporter Georgina Gustin.
LEAP Announces Spring Events for 2022-23 Speaker Series
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LEAP Invites Applications for 2023 Student Grant Program

The Law, Ethics & Animals Program (LEAP) at Yale Law School is inviting applications for its grant program, which supports Yale student-led research and creative projects on the urgent threats facing non-human animals.
LEAP Invites Applications for 2023 Student Grant Program

It’s Time for Climate Change To Reach the International Court of Justice — A Commentary by Douglas Kysar (link is external)2

Douglas Kysar is Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law at Yale Law School and faculty co-director of the Law, Ethics and Animals Program.

It’s Time for Climate Change To Reach the International Court of Justice — A Commentary by Douglas Kysar (link is external)
Kristy Ferraro stands in a field behind a yellow "moose crossing" traffic sign and and Diego Ellis Soto stands in the woods with a walking stick.

LEAP Student Fellows Kristy Ferraro and Diego Ellis Soto Win the Sidnie Manton Award 

Two student fellows of the Law, Ethics & Animals Program have won an award for the best animal ecology review or long-term study published in Journal of Animal Ecology by an early career researcher.
LEAP Student Fellows Kristy Ferraro and Diego Ellis Soto Win the Sidnie Manton Award 
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Edge Effects

How Electrification Distanced Poultry Farmers from their Flocks (link is external)3

LEAP Research Assistant Zoe Robertson YC ’23 writes about how electrification reshaped the poultry industry and the transformation’s consequences. 

How Electrification Distanced Poultry Farmers from their Flocks (link is external)
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Environmental Law Reporter

Reducing Animal Agriculture Emissions: The Viability of a Farm Transition Carbon Offset Protocol (link is external)4

LEAP alums Manny Rutinel ’22 and Sebastian Quaade YC ’21 describe the viability of an emissions offset protocol that credits farms for transitioning from raising livestock to growing crops. 

Reducing Animal Agriculture Emissions: The Viability of a Farm Transition Carbon Offset Protocol (link is external)
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Greenpeace

Revealed: How the Livestock Industry Funds the ‘Greenhouse Gas Guru’ (link is external)5

LEAP Executive Director Viveca Morris is quoted by Unearthed about how an industry-funded academic research institute has become central to the agriculture sector’s PR and lobbying efforts.  

Revealed: How the Livestock Industry Funds the ‘Greenhouse Gas Guru’ (link is external)
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Data For Progress

Pigs On The Docket (link is external)6

LEAP grant recipient Emily Tian discusses how the U.S. Supreme Court case about California's Proposition 12 might shape the future of farmed animal welfare.

Pigs On The Docket (link is external)

Links

  1. https://sustainability.yale.edu/news/building-bird-friendly-yale-campus-living-lab
  2. https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/3774919-its-time-for-climate-change-to-reach-the-international-court-of-justice/
  3. https://edgeeffects.net/electrified-farming-poultry/
  4. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3832304
  5. https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2022/10/31/frank-mitloehner-uc-davis-climate-funding/
  6. https://www.dataforprogress.org/memos/pigs-on-the-docket-how-the-pork-industrys-supreme-court-case-against-prop-12-may-shape-the-future-of-farm-animal-welfare