March 29, 2022 Program Ecuador’s High Court Rules That Wild Animals Have Legal Rights
“What makes this decision so important is that now the rights of nature can be used to benefit small groups or individual animals,” Kristen A. Stilt, a Harvard law professor and Faculty Director of the school’s Brooks McCormick Jr. Animal Law and Policy Program, said. “That makes rights of nature a far more powerful tool than perhaps we have seen before.”
March 23, 2022 Program 2022 Harvard Law School Animal Law Week
Eighth annual event explores animal personhood, rights of nature, and how HLS graduates can impact animal law and policy
February 23, 2022 Program Column: Pork producers are in full squeal over California’s farm animal rules. You should tune them out
Major pork producers — a big part of Big Meat, as the livestock industry is often known — have been pulling out the stops recently to eviscerate a California law regulating how they treat pregnant sows. They've asked the Supreme Court to overturn the state's regulations. (The justices may issue a decision on whether they'll take the case as soon as Monday.) ... These practices may have been tacitly accepted by the public because pigs weren't seen as they are — as intelligent animals that prefer room to roam. "The sows can't move, they're biting at the bars," says Chris Green, executive director of the Animal Law & Policy Program at Harvard Law School. "There are massive, massive psychological welfare issues."
February 16, 2022 Program What is California’s ‘War on Breakfast’ really about?
“Pork producers decided not to comply,” said Chris Green, the executive director of Harvard’s Animal Law & Policy Program. “Instead, they pinned everything on litigation. And now that their litigation failed multiple times, they’re in this panic.”