Law, Ethics & Animals Program Announces 2020–21 Fellowship Opportunity

The Law, Ethics & Animals Program (LEAP) at Yale Law School invites applications for a full-time post-graduate or post-baccalaureate Fellow for the 2020-21 academic year. The LEAP Fellow will work closely with the Program’s Executive Director and Faculty Co-Directors to support and grow the program’s cross-disciplinary initiatives, research, student engagement, and academic programming.

LEAP, which launched in September 2019, is an interdisciplinary “think and do tank” at Yale dedicated to two overarching goals. First, the Program aims to inspire impactful learning and scholarship about the deep legal, scientific, and moral questions that humanity’s treatment of other animals raise. Second, the Program aims to empower Yale scholars and students to produce positive legal and political change for animals, people, and the environment upon which they depend. The Fellow will be an integral team member of this creative and cutting-edge new program.

The full job listing can be found here.

LEAP leads and coordinates a diverse program of activities that serve students and scholars at Yale, and that contribute to defining, expanding, and advancing the field of animal law. Programming includes: academic and experiential animal law courses; the Climate, Animals, Food, and Environment Law & Policy Lab (“CAFE Lab”) — the first of its kind in the nation — where students work with experts to develop new legal and political strategies to address the multiple externalized costs of industrial animal agriculture; a student fellows program and active support for student research projects and publications; regular lectures, panels, and speaker events that bring leading thinkers — including lawmakers, scholars, artists, scientists, advocates, and journalists — to Yale’s campus to inspire, enrich, and inform the Program’s work; and the “When We Talk About Animals” podcast series. LEAP’s work is highly interdisciplinary and we often partner with schools, departments, and other centers and programs across Yale University and beyond. The Program’s current research focuses on understanding and responding to industrialized cruelty, with a particular focus on industrial animal agriculture, and issues at the intersection of animal welfare, climate and environmental change, and human rights. Interested applicants can learn more about the work of the Law, Ethics & Animals Program on the Program’s website.

The Program welcomes applications from candidates who possess a J..D, Ph.D, or Master’s degree, as well as college graduates. The Fellow will receive a one-year appointment and a competitive salary plus Yale University benefits.

UPDATE: As of February 28, 2020, this position has been filled.