October 08, 2025 Clinic Animal abusers are getting let off the hook. Trump and his Supreme Court are partly to blame.
Mary Hollingsworth, Faculty Director of Harvard Law School’s Animal Law and Policy Clinic and a former Justice Department trial attorney, told Vox what’s most needed to deter violations is stronger fines. For that to happen, the Animal Welfare Act needs to be amended to allow the Justice Department to take violators to federal court, where judges are “much more likely to impose a reasonable fine,” Professor Hollingsworth said.
June 12, 2024 Clinic Here’s why some want Mass. to end use of the most potent rat poisons
“What our petition argues is that poisoning raptors and coyotes and foxes and all of those animals who eat rodents, we believe that that is an unreasonable, adverse effect on the environment,” said Mathews, a former clinical instructor at the Animal Law and Policy Clinic who helped write the petition.
April 01, 2024 Clinic Ninth Circuit wades into battle over management of starving tule elk population
he plaintiffs' attorney Rebecca Garverman told the panel her clients are willing to enter into mediation on their claims, but the government is not. She said the law requires the park service to revise its policies when appropriate.