LEAP Invites Applicants for an Animal Agriculture Accountability Project Fellow
The Law, Environment, and Animals Program4 (LEAP) at Yale Law School invites applications for an Animal Agriculture Accountability Project Fellow. The fellow will prepare an assessment of potential litigation strategies challenging industrial animal agriculture’s animal welfare, labor, environmental and other negative externalities. The fellow’s work will be supervised by LEAP founders Jonathan Lovvorn and Doug Kysar, and will support the Animal Agriculture Accountability Project (AAAP). The project is an academic and NGO partnership that seeks to accelerate the enactment and enforcement of state and local legal policy interventions to hold industrial animal agriculture accountable for its harms to people, animals, and the environment.
Additional information, including information about how to apply, can be found at LEAP’s website5.
The fellow will oversee the development of a deep-dive assessment of litigation strategies for challenging the factory business model in state and federal courts. These include:
- An assessment of past, current, and potential future litigation strategies challenging industrial animal agriculture’s animal welfare, labor, environmental and other negative externalities, and the creation of a database cataloging such litigation
- An evaluation of which litigation strategies best advance the goal of elevating the public’s understanding that 90% of meat and dairy is produced in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions, which are extremely damaging to workers, animals, and the planet
- Recommendations regarding the cost, time, and likelihood of success of the most promising litigation strategies
There is a preference for the position to be based at Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, but remote work in Yale-approved states6 will be considered for strong candidates. The fellow will receive a one-year appointment, commencing as soon as possible, and a competitive salary commensurate with experience level plus Yale University benefits. Applicants must have authorization to work in the United States. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
Founded in 2019, the Law, Environment & Animals Program at Yale Law School is a multidisciplinary program dedicated to developing strategies to address industrialized animal cruelty and its impacts on the living world, and to drawing attention to the deep questions of conscience and law raised by humanity’s treatment of animals.
