In this project we sought to better understand relationships between scientific and popular views regarding the agency, sentience, and cognition (ASC) of aquatic animals, and policies that protect these animals in the United States. For case studies we chose cetaceans, tunas, and octopuses.
May
2,
2023
Mathilde Cohen, a George Williamson Crawford Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law, has been awarded the Brooks Institute Scholars Research Fellowship.
April
11,
2023
First-year law student Natalie Zisa has turned her passion for animal advocacy into national-level recognition for her legislative drafting and lobbying skills. Zisa pursued the National Animal Law Competition on her own and prevailed in the rigorous spring event.
March
28,
2023
The Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law & Policy hosted the revival of the National Animal Law Competitions (NALC) on March 18-19, 2023, in partnership with Harvard Law School, Lewis & Clark Law School, and Vermont Law & Graduate School.
February
11,
2023
Congratulations to Brooks Institute Scholars Research Fellowship recipient, S. Marek Muller!
September
21,
2022
Two Yale Law School students, Emma Findlen LeBlanc ’24 and Thomas Poston ’24, are the 2022-2023 Emerging Scholars Fellows with the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law and Policy.
July
21,
2022
The Brooks Institute is relaunching the National Animal Law Competitions (NALC) with support from the animal law programs at Harvard, Lewis & Clark, the University of Denver, the University of San Francisco, Vermont, and Yale. The Competitions will be held in March 2023.
April
19,
2022
Chris Green, executive director of the Brooks McCormick Jr. Animal Law & Policy Program at Harvard Law School, will receive the American Bar Association’s Animal Law Committee’s Excellence in the Advancement of Animal Law Award.
March
15,
2022
Lori Gruen's research into animal ethics is going deeper thanks to a Brooks Institute Scholars Research Fellowship.
January
17,
2022
Lori Gruen, a William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University, has been awarded the Brooks Institute Scholars Research Fellowship.