October 16, 2026 ALPP 2025-2026 Year in Review

In these pages, including a personal letter from Faculty Director Kristen Stilt and a first message from our new Executive Director, Lana Nadj, we detail a year of steadfast and determined work during a time of challenge and uncertainty for Harvard and for academic institutions across the country. This year also marked a milestone: more than a decade since the Program’s founding in 2014. We honor it by looking ahead and moving forward, convening as a team to set priorities for ALPP’s second decade. Our visiting fellows came from Germany’s University of Regensburg and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law to pursue their research, and they published widely in venues including the German Law Journal and Verfassungsblog. We also introduced hundreds of students to Animal Law through classes, the Animal Law & Policy Clinic, our workshop series, and events, including Animal Law Week, which drew some 250 students to five days of conversations at the intersection of animal welfare, human rights, and constitutional law. In this report you will hear from many of those students in their own words, describing how their thinking, their career plans, and in some cases the course of their lives have changed.

Map of Canada, U.S.A., Mexico

June 05, 2026 New World Screwworm Incursion into Texas Highlights Risks Created by Farm Bill

Media Statement: June 5, 2026

Lana Nadj and Melanie Lary in front of statue of the elephant Madhubala

December 12, 2025 Q&A with Lana Nadj, ALPP’s New Executive Director

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