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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...
LEAP and Thurman Arnold Project Cohost Big-Ag & Antitrust Conference
Yale Law School's Law, Ethics & Animals Program cohosted a daylong virtual event dedicated to addressing how competition law and policy can combat corporate concentration in America’s food system.
Q&A: Lexi Smith ’22 on the Promise and Peril of Geoengineering
Lexi Smith ’22 speaks about her research as part of the Law, Ethics & Animals Program's Advanced Climate, Animal, Food, and Environmental Law and Policy (CAFE) Lab.
LEAP and TAP to Cohost Conference on Antitrust and the Food System on January 16
Yale Law School’s Law, Ethics & Animals Program and Yale School of Management’s Thurman Arnold Project will cohost an online conference on today's food system on January 16, 2021.
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